Show me the dumbest bike you ever built

[icepick_trotsky]

I'll go first. Put this together in about an hour a couple years ago and used in on a 20 mile group ride. Fixed gear double handle bars. It was not a comfortable day in the saddle. Dura Ace though!

[merckxman]

Is there where Canyon got the idea for their Hover bar?

[Veloo]

Don't get how you could be uncomfortable on a bike with a gazzillion different positions to offer.

[GOTHBROOKS]

fixiefoo

[Spaghetti Legs]

That's like a bike version of the mullet. Business down low, party up top.

I once put a crank backwards but didn't take pics.

[duff_duffy]

Just needs bar ends and aero bars clipped on and you’d have some type of record for most hand positions available.

[Mark McM]

I think he got the idea from Sheldon Brown. Even many years gone, he's still ahead of our time.






And I see what you did wrong on that fixed gear bike: You should have run a non-aero brake lever on the drop bar, and then run the cable (emerging from the top of the lever) through a top mount lever on the straight bar, so you could brake from either handlebar.

[d_douglas]

yes, that is baaaaaddddd.

No photos, but I had a vintage MTB that was a bit too small and I put a 150mm stem and them swept back bars on it purely because the bar was cool. Shouldve put a 110mm stem and a straight bar instead...

[Ronsonic]

Originally Posted by icepick_trotsky

I'll go first. Put this together in about an hour a couple years ago and used in on a 20 mile group ride. Fixed gear double handle bars. It was not a comfortable day in the saddle. Dura Ace though!

I misread the down tube at first. Thought it said "Attention."

[72gmc]

It should say, “intervention”

[Fishbike]

I have a lovely Merckx Extra Corsa that I built with SRAM Apex with white hoods and white brakes. It looks pretty good and rides very well but it is just so wrong. At least it has a nice Sugino crankset (with an odd Q factor).

[charliedid]

What a mess.

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by Fishbike

I have a lovely Merckx Extra Corsa that I built with SRAM Apex with white hoods and white brakes. It looks pretty good and rides very well but it is just so wrong. At least it has a nice Sugino crankset (with an odd Q factor).

I hear it crying from here.
For the OP, I hope you wore that helmet!!

[Fishbike]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

I hear it crying from here.
For the OP, I hope you wore that helmet!!

Forgive me, for I have sinned.