Re: [CR] Cinelli 'City' handlebar(s)

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Columbus)

From: "Howard Darr" <hdarr@localnet.com>
To: <tsaleh@rocketmail.com>, <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <20060505192915.44581.qmail@web52509.mail.yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Cinelli 'City' handlebar(s)
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 17:33:27 -0400
reply-type=original

Kraynick had some last time I was there. Be aware they are narrow. He thought they were designed for a tandem stoker.

Brake levers will require some thought.

Howard Darr
Clymer PA


----- Original Message -----
From: tarik saleh
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 3:29 PM
Subject: [CR] Cinelli 'City' handlebar(s)



> Mark Buswell wrot:
> """
> This is a follow-up to a 'want to buy' posting I put
> out to the list
> in January regarding the elusive Cinelli 'City' or
> 'Upright' bars.
> So I'm reopening this can of worms in hopes that
> someone has picked these up somewhere or someone has
> decided that
> they just darn don't need them anymore.
> """
>
> I sez:
>
> I have a set (mine mine mine mine) but I did get them
> from someone who lived in pittsburg and said that
> Krayniks shop had a whole pile of them. They are
> pretty nice for your classic ride, but it is silly to
> have 26.4 diameter flat bars and they are really
> narrow for my taste, but they do look nice. So see if
> you can coordinate with a pittsburg dwelling CR'r.
>
> Other people mentioned more modern interpretations.
> Yet another one are thesycip javaboy bars for a slick
> simple city bar that works with pretty much any stem
> appropriately shimmed:
> http://www.sycip.com/components.html
> at the bottom.
>
>
> See them here in action:
> http://www.tariksaleh.com/beakham.html
> wide wide wide, look good on city and porteuresque
> bikes in my opinion.
>
> Good luck
>
> Tarik
>
>
>
> Tarik Saleh
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