Originally Posted by
Unca_Sam
Ummm, can I see pictures of said flipped bars? I'm toying with this idea on a 1960 Hercules 3 speed with a canti-like frame and I'm concerned it'll ruin "the look", since a 'path racer' was usually a diamond frame.
This is the only photo I can find on my phone. It was taken by a friend a couple of years ago, while I was recovering from injury and illness and mostly riding my Univega hybrid instead of my road bikes. Probably a screen grab off my friend's FB page.
Flipped swept bars do look good on a path racer tho.
The other problem with my bike's aesthetics is retaining the original Shimano brake levers, which included protruding plates for bolting on the modular RapidFire thumb shifters, both of which broke a few years ago. Now I use bar-end shifters. So those original brake levers look clunky without the thumbies.
And a flipped swept bar might look better wrapped, rather than with chunky rubber grips. Although those ergo-friendly palm shelf grips are comfy.
Flipped Nitto albatross bar on my Univega, summer 2018.