came across this beauty on my weekly (ok, daily) trawl for Tommasinis and had to share...

pity about the risers though.

thats one of the lovelys that i go on velospace to drool over
theres a couple of tommasinis on there

I wish this was mine

Oooh. Suit you sir.

I don't get the narrow handlebars that seem to be so popular.

:-/

Bin the riser, replace them with drops and that thing is all good!

well, if you think about how close your hands can go when you ride on the flats of a dropbar, there's no need to have them much wider than that. it offers only one hand position though.

personally , I like getting down on the drops, they are so nice..nitto b123aa, better than sex with a midget.

what?! NOTHING is better than sex with a midget.

only if you're a midget yourself...and the other midget has a tray of coke on it's head..

yeah but personally I can't get any oomph into the pedals with my hands so close together, or even
have good control at low speed. Is it just a matter of getting used to it or is to do with the
geometry at the front of the bike?

It's all about the guns!

tommy. stop posting my pic on the internet! and who is that guy with the blue shirt?

i watch a program about that bloke,hes a right f**k up taking all kinds of steroids........now look at this loser,he must have some real issues:)

I doubt he's still alive..that's a way to mess yourself up fo sure

how did he get his veins to become simmetrical?

cos hes a freak!

and hod did he get his pants to crease simmetrically?
has he got 2 knobs?

deffenatly a freak

he looks happy......hehehe

Those pics show what happens when you use chopped risers instead of drops..

I saw that program too that Aidan mentioned... He kept injected directly into his arm and eventually it had this huge tumour or something in it, so he just drained it with a syringe and **loads** of blood just kept coming out. Channel 5 marketed that as his arm "exploding", haha. Rubbish documentary though!

I disagree... The tops of a dropbar aren't designed for proper, "I'm pedalling quite hard to go fast" riding, they're just an upright position for tootling along.

Yeah I'm like that. I find my current flat bars too wide though, and that I have to move my hands in a couple of cm to get the perfect leverage. Afterall the idea of the bars is to lock your body in a position so your legs can push into the pedals rather than push your body up and down.

I bet people with the tiny bars are crap at climbing.

Vid of arm guy "draining" his bicep pus (god bless the internet!)
http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/05/6498/

its sick!! im not watching that again....it gave me nightmares the first time....this time i may resort to steriods:(

ben i think thats more porn then bike

There's a bike in the picture!

true that is:)

you disagree with what? you seem to be inventing your own argument.
I didn't say the tops were useful for "I'm pedalling quite hard to go fast" riding, did I?

it's about getting used to it i think.
i can ride fast enough with my hands right next to the stem.
and for turning it's more about leaning yourself + your bike and not really twisting your bar, especially considering the fact that my stem is rather long (125mm)
only problem is you lose your aero edge.

on the other hand i don't get why your bars need to be that wide for urban riding. i actually don't feel comfortable with wide bars. widest i feel comfortable are the width of my shoulders. wider ones they're alright with an mtb or any other bike with upright positions but just not with road/track bikes because of the weight distribution.

i once had a guy riding a cruiser in front of me during rush hour. his bars were almost a metre wide. not to say overtaking him is a pain amongst moving traffic he looks like an absolute idiot with his low saddle.

not sure about this comment either.
a lot of kids climb with wide bars pedalling out of their saddle rocking their bike left and right. that's an absolute waste of energy. it always seems to me that the wider the bars, the larger the rocking magnitude.

and efficient rider can climb a hill with his bum in the saddle and ride straight up without rocking his bike.

Not all climbs can be made sat down in the saddle, especially not racing. You need to get out of the saddle to respond to attacks, to attack, to use different muscles in order to rest the seated climbing muscles, etc.
Even the best climbers rock a certain amount, especially going up something massive. Holding the bike dead still while out of the saddle isn't more efficient - you're then wasting energy stabilising the bike that should be saved for your legs.
Wider bars are also better for expanding the lungs and allowing more oxygen in, making it easier to breathe.
The local 14yo on their BMX rocking excessively side-to-side isn't a fair comparison. Risers are silly and hand-width risers are even sillier. It's not illegal though so carry on :)
Sprinting is also very difficult using cut bars and you wont be setting any records..

you've got your point hippy but i'm not really a racer i do tend to keep my bum on the saddle on climbs. not those hard ones though.
i stopped being a masher since i started riding fixed. and my point is that it's more about the rider than the bars if we are to consider climbing.

by the way i've got 3 bikes all have drops and i have another 2 drop bars sitting in my room ;)

narrow risers are useful for tricks though. basically the only practical thing for doing bar flips (ok ok i know...). i'm also considering them for my polo bike i'm building because drops do get in the way of the mallet.

True. The only time you'll see me bar-spinning is when I crash and the bars swivel around :)

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