[Closed] Going against trend...

Are you saying that a riser bar isn't "on trend"?

A slightly tongue in cheek thread Scotroutes...

I've probably got 50mm of spacers under the stem on my Solaris.

I went out on my Cx'er yesterday...

How un-trendy's that.

Flat bars are so 2016. I’m currently the owner of one bike and it’s a rigid with a BMX stem and riser bars that are higher than the saddle.

A slightly tongue in cheek thread Scotroutes…

Sorry. I'm so far off-trend I can't recognise these witticisms.

I just finished building my new 26er.

Switching my gravel bike for a hardtail.

I’ve probably got 50mm of spacers under the stem on my Solaris.

Gotta keep the bar flat... Moar spacers!

I've had a hard tail since before gravel bikes even existed..

I don't know what a trend is though..

I just finished building my new 26er.

I'm just waiting for my new 26er to arrive.

Not owning a gravel bike.

110mm stem on the Wazoo with 747mm Knuckleball bars, all spacers currently under stem on my Cube that already has a 210mm head tube iirc.

I've gone back to singlespeed on my Stooge so not sure if that's on trend? It is setup 27.5+ which is on trend? One thing is for sure though is I forgot how knackering riding singlespeed was/is.

Was also thinking of building my 26 inch Soul back up but mostly to be used on the turbo.

15mm ? That's hardly a riser bar even in this day

Sold my monstercross, my singlespeed gravel bike has v brakes, my cx bike has a double chainring, my fat bike still has 10 gears (and only 11-36, not even expanded), my road bike has spacers under the stem and my dynamo hub says shimano it.

None of my bikes are 1x12 or boost.
My hardtail is 2x10!

I feel dirty.

Spending good money on rim brake gravel and CX bikes.

Bars level with saddle on road bikes.

Latex tubes instead of tubeless.

All informed choices, not just laziness or cheapness, honest!

Edit: apart from the bars on the road bikes, that's definitely laziness, not enough yoga!

I’m waiting for my 85mm braced riser bars to arrive. I’ll put about 20mm of spacers under the stem as well.

Two fingers up to fashion.

Having no intention of going tubeless.

Just seems a massive faff and have never felt the desire to run my tyres so they're particularly squidgy anyway.

Gone back to a flat barred road bike from drop bars, happy days.

I’m waiting for my 85mm braced riser bars to arrive. I’ll put about 20mm of spacers under the stem as well.

Junker bar from Stooge? If so, me too but the slightly smaller one. Got a Thomson BMX stem in preparation. It has a weird removal clamp. Not sure I trust it 😀

I went against trend in 2002 by riding solely fixed gear. It then became a trend for a few years from around 2008 - 2013 but went away so I am now against the trend again. Another trend has now caught me though as my fixed riding is off road/on gravel on a brakeless track bike with riser bars so the trend of tracklocross has caught me but hasn't made it's way to the UK yet.

It's not a 'downgrade' as I've never done anything different, but I'm still running a triple chainset which is seriously off-trend (I have bar ends too and a flat bar with a riser stem).

I’m running 50mm riser bars with 20mm of spacers underneath. I like them.

I've never bowed to the marketing and brought a bike with pointlessly large wheels, just stuck with 26" ones.

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I'm not convinced about LLS, for what I do, traditional XC geometry with a higher BB is better.

Don't have a pic but back in 2010 I made an offroad touring bike from one of these:

Combined with one of these (extended to max):

And some 1.75" Kenda hybrid tyres (£11 the pair from a shop in Ledbury that iirc also sold buckets and drain-plungers).

Whole thing including the bike cost less than £40. Then I broke decimated the budget by putting a Brooks B17 on it.

It was both utterly ace and infinitely crap at once. OK, it was mainly the brakes that were crap. And the rims. But the rest was ace. It rode high and slowly over all terrain, carrying two rear panniers full of camping gubbins. Even grew to like the colour. And I hate pinkle with a passion. But this had a cheeky blue-ish metallic sheen to it. The frame was nigh on indestructible, fashioned from some weird tubing called Reynolds K2. It had lugs. Lovely lugs. Anyway. What was that about 'trends'? (Half-expect to see essentially the same bike ridden by some 2030 retro-hipster, complete with massive Bikehut panniers and my beloved reflective hi-viz ankle-bracelets)

Of note was the damaged sticker that was supposed to read 'Apex'. On my example - the letter 'X' was missing, so the bike became affectionately named 'The Ape' or 'Pink Ape'. I actually miss it. Eventually forced self to bin it because it would become a money-pit knowing my tendency for upgrade-itis. That, and the wheels were irretrievably deformed from extended and loaded forays into darkening coombes, where hard sharp rocks would leap and grab any unwary soul.

My road bike is 3x10

I'm putting 2x9 on my next build.

I've recently fitted a goping high rise stem, the bikes much more comfortable now.

With gear count increasing year by year I've bucked the trend by removing 18 gears off my bike.