Handle Bar Style
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illafilla at 12.11.07 - 9:23 am
Yikes! LA chewed up and spit out my old bike :( , but I'm building a new single speed :) .
Considering I will have a front brake, which handle bar style should I go with? Comments (smart assed and otherwise) or opinions would be appreciated...
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put the lever on the left side of your bars all the way up against the stem. it will work regardless of you running bullhorns, drops, flat bars, etc...
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 9:24 am
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put it on the right side, that way you can signal *and* brake at the same time...
woah.. multitasking!
e-rock12.11.07 - 9:57 am
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hmm ... the problem is i give the middle finger primarily using my right hand. decisions, decisions ...
illafilla12.11.07 - 10:16 am
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MAKE IT A FOOT-BRAKE, THEN YOU CAN SIGNAL, BRAKE, AND GIVE THE MIDDLE FINGER, AND SCRATCH YOUR PRIVATES, LOL.
eddieboyinla12.11.07 - 10:42 am
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Shit, are you telling me my front brake lever has been on the wrong side of my bars for over 25 years? I knew I was doing something wrong all these years!
toweliesbong12.11.07 - 11:00 am
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its alright. now youve seen the light. switch the lever (or just take it off altogether) and join me in headbanging to japanese death metal.
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 11:02 am
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I think I may just change it to a foot brake, or, actually, I think I'll leave it on the right of the bars and only use it with my foot.
Don't know about the Japanese death metal, though, I don't want my head to explode. Shit, the last time I listened to Jimmy Buffet stuff started leaking out of my nose, ears, and eye sockets. My skull can generally only handle Perry Como and Lawrence Welk.
toweliesbong12.11.07 - 11:13 am
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well in Europe they put the front brake lever on the right side. also on motorcycles, the front brake lever is always on the right side. personally, i prefer it that way.
http://davesbikeblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-is-my-front-brake-lever-on-right.html
onethirtynine12.11.07 - 11:32 am
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^^ What happened to Guitar Wolf? We gotta get a screening going of that cheesy movie they made awhile back.
City Hobgoblin12.11.07 - 11:52 am
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um ... that's random ... nothing to do with my original post, but they were playing that movie at Carbon in culver city. i was drunk and thought that that was the reason it seemed so fucked up.
illafilla12.11.07 - 11:55 am
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My biggest regret in life so far is that I haven't taken the opportunity to see if Guitar Wolf could make my head explode in person.
Fujiyama Attack would probably be the song to do it.
toweliesbong12.11.07 - 11:56 am
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play the drinking game thats on the guitar wolf dvd and everyone is hammered within the first 20 minutes.
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 12:00 pm
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"um ... that's random ... nothing to do with my original post"
Welcome to the wonderful and ADHD-addled world of street cyclists. You're lucky you got any relevant replies at all.
City Hobgoblin12.11.07 - 12:02 pm
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you guys like THEE MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT? satanic boom boom head.
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 12:04 pm
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"My biggest regret in life so far is that I haven't taken the opportunity to see if Guitar Wolf could make my head explode in person."
I saw them in Memphis and Guitarwolf Seiji hit me in the face with a bottle...It was great.
I AM Traffic12.11.07 - 12:08 pm
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RBI your music knowledge never ceases to impress me. Being from Ojai, you must have a ton of time on your hands, and you clearly spend all that time listening to music. So here's my thesis for my anthropology doctorate: If you're from a small town, there's a 95% chance you'll be a worthless meth head, and a 5% chance you'll have impressive and vast knowledge on the topic of your choosing.
Now I need funding to research that claim.
City Hobgoblin12.11.07 - 12:34 pm
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Last time I was in Ojai I spotted a kid wearing a handpainted leather jacket with a bunch of punk bands on it. One of the names stood out like a bigass zit on the tip of one's nose, Shockheaded Peters, not very punk but very cool and not a gold record seller these days.
toweliesbong12.11.07 - 12:39 pm
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i ride a fixed gear. i am a hipster. the best years for music were 1968 through 1974.
my apartment is on the border between ojai and oak view. the latter is the meth capital of ventura county.
i know (knew) the kid with the painted jacket. he got into heroin like every other street punk and beat up his girlfriend (whos mother was a public defender) and is now in jail on breaking and entering charges. his name is cameron. my senior year of high school (his freshman year) he took green spraypaint and covered the school in BONG RIPS FOR JESUS.
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 12:45 pm
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The best years for music were 1967-1972, 1977-1982, 1992-1997, 2002-2007. Funny all the 2s and 7s.
toweliesbong12.11.07 - 12:49 pm
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the 2000s have been awful for music unless youre counting all the reissues from the 60s and 70s that were released on the akarma label.
hey hobogobolino, heres another pic from my record collection.
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 12:53 pm
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I only included 2002-2007 because of the 2s and 7s. Plus:
Mclusky Does Dallas was released in 2002
Future of the Left and Shooting at Unarmed Men came to life
Deerhoof's best stuff started in 2002
The best Fall albums in decades arrived in the last 5 years
The Mekons 25th Anniversary was in 2002.
I should drop 1992-1997 because the worst of the Fall was released during those years.
toweliesbong12.11.07 - 12:59 pm
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"If you're from a small town, there's a 95% chance you'll be a worthless meth head, and a 5% chance you'll have impressive and vast knowledge on the topic of your choosing."
Actually, there is a 100% percent chance of being a worthless meth head. And a 5% chance of being a worthless meth head with an impressive and vast knowledge of some specific subject.
I can put together a venn diagram to illustrate if you like.
Oh, and I think mustache bars are neat.
malo lado12.11.07 - 1:05 pm
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i have purchased these records so far in the month of december.
-cassettes-
black sabbath - sabbath bloody sabbath
king diamond - the eye
extreme noise terror - retrobution
judas priest - sad wings of destiny
sepultura - roots
fugazi - repeater
ozzy osbourne - no rest for the wicked
ministry - the land of rape and honey
-seven inches-
jellyroll rockheads / exclaim - split
disrupt 7"
karp 7"
godstomper / no comply - split
adamantium / bane - split
-twelve inches-
despise you - west side horizons
black army jacket - 222
nurse with wound - thunder perfect mind
robin trower - bridge of sighs
poison idea - feel the darkness
cream - disreali gears
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 1:11 pm
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ruinedbyidioms,
No love for Brian Jonestown Massacre? Dead Meadow? The Entrance? Spin Drift? I lub 2000's stoner rock.
City Hobgoblin12.11.07 - 1:20 pm
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how many more versions of sleepy silvery door will dead meadow record?
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 1:22 pm
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hater.
(This completely off-topic thread is the best -- I had to do some work, and then I was like "where the hell was I talking to rbi?... oh yeah, that handlebars thread")
City Hobgoblin12.11.07 - 1:41 pm
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of course im hating. im a connoisseur. that stuff isnt even real "stoner rock" to begin with. its just a bunch of tight pants with combovers standing in front of their vintage orange amps their parents credit cards bought them.
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 2:00 pm
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Where the hell do you get a cassette of Sad Wings Of Destiny?
Bullhorns FTW, if you climb.
Drops FTW, if you like to tuck in the flats.
Flat bars chopped down to about 9" wide FTW, if you don't actually ride the bike.
PC12.11.07 - 2:14 pm
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if i could i would take pictures of myself pissing on these lps of mine.
dead meadow - got live if you want it 12" (orange vinyl)
dead meadow - shivering king and others 12"
dead meadow - feathers 12"
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 2:15 pm
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How about you sell them to me instead? And you can wear a smug look on your face when I fork over the dough, like "you are buying things I consider crap. I smug you."
City Hobgoblin12.11.07 - 2:20 pm
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Hey ruinedbyidiots, you are the god of metal! I'm sure you know about the bike swap in Ventura this weekend:
http://www.walteriabicycles.com/5706.html
Front brake lever on the right side is a motorcycle thing. It makes sense, the right hand is typically the dominant one. Also, if you look at photos of old British time trial fixed-gear riders they put their levers on the right side too:
http://davesbikeblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/twiddling.html
I know it's not fashionable, but why not just use a road drop bar with two road levers? There's a reason why this setup is the most popular -- it frickin' works! The hoods are among the most comfortable places on a bar and the best place to be when you start accelerating or you're out of the saddle. Plus you can drop down on a sprint and embarrass all your friends with chopped risers.
You can put a stoker lever on the other side if it pains you to have brake lever that does nothing.
cabhauler12.11.07 - 2:46 pm
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ha! useful answers after all! and handlebars are pirating the music thread.
by the way, butt rock is always the best - '18 and a life of crime!'
illafilla12.11.07 - 2:50 pm
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I have a pair of bullhorns that you can have. Never used.
rossangeles12.11.07 - 3:36 pm
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yeah CH ill sell them to you. name a price. $15 per? thats ten sides of music for $45.
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 5:35 pm
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hey, rossangeles, sweet ... free stuff! i can pick them up from you anywhere / anytime.
illafilla12.11.07 - 6:30 pm
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I live up near Ventura, but I'll be in Venice all day Wed and probably try and hit the Puffy Jacket ride. Here's my cell 805 558 8275.
rossangeles12.11.07 - 8:27 pm
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hey ross, i am the guy whom you met on the bike path in ojai.
ruinedbyidiots12.11.07 - 9:13 pm
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Cool. I was in Ojai today. What happened to Rob and Jim's burritos across from the skate park? Had to hit Rubens instead. Hit me up next Ojai ride. Have you ever done upper Ojai to Santa Paula? Crazy downhill. This is going WAY off topic. Heres my email rossangeles@earthlink.net
rossangeles12.11.07 - 9:19 pm
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There was a topic?
PC12.12.07 - 4:11 am
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^^ quit posting moustaches, you're going to attract Cole's attention.
RBI,
$15 sounds groovy (pun!). I'm not familiar with the first one (a live one?) Is it any good?
See you at the Toy Ride?
City Hobgoblin12.12.07 - 10:26 am
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Got Live If You Want It is the third album of Washington, D.C. based band Dead Meadow. It was recorded live at Maxwell's Hoboken, New Jersey, on February 17, 2002 and released seven months later on CD and orange vinyl LP by Anton Newcombe's label, The Committee to Keep Music Evil.
1. "Green Sky Green Lake" - 5:42
2. "Everything's Goin On" - 3:15
3. "Good Moanin'" - 4:47
4. "Sleepy Silver Door" - 7:29
5. "Beyond the Fields We Know" - 9:26
6. "Dusty Nothing" - 4:06
7. "Lady" - 4:46
8. "Rocky Mountain High" - 7:27
toy ride for sure, packaged just like the jd lp. this record was recorded on my 17th birthday.
ruinedbyidiots12.12.07 - 10:54 am
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I much prefer shopping at Ruinedbyidiots Records than stupid Amoeba. Hand delivered via bicycle, and then you get to ride around and get loaded with the owner.
I'll bring my cash monies. (Which group are you riding with? I'm leaning towards Long Beach.)
City Hobgoblin12.12.07 - 11:10 am
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my defunct label was called divergent. anyway, i think im going culver city. but i have your number, ill find you at olvera st. i will throw in a 7" limited to 10 of a band called swing by seven for free.
ruinedbyidiots12.12.07 - 11:16 am
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