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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Upturned barends: Ghetto stylie for Matures?

See, I think it's amazing that Pat and Cat Carroll quit their jobs and rode their bikes around the planet.


But frankly I can't understand how folks who spend that much time on their bikes have never learned that there are dozens of better handlebar options than the dangerous and ugly upturned-barends approach.





For starters, there's the lovely Nitto Dove Bar with quillbolt stem. Raise that sucker till you're standing tall as a fencepost!


Then, of course, there's this approach.


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