sac02

I posted a while ago about putting a white stem on a white bike, with some seriously professional photo manipulation skills to imagine what it would look like, haha. Here's some before and after pics for your amusement.

I also installed the Easton ec90 bar I bought. I haven't ridden it yet, but I'm really looking forward to the classic drop shape over the mangled "anatomic" shaped stock bars.



Not carbon, carbon wrap









OK, let me have it with your comments,

Mac

bikerboy869

Looks nice... does the white stem work like white bar tape and make you go faster??

botto 

looked better before.

btw - flip it.

lbear

Real clean look.
The red tape and the red on the cages is a nice touch. Try and fine some white spacers to finish it off.
Looks good!

Szczuldo

too much white! Imo it looked better before, but the stem and red tape combo and black accents from the bars, spacers and headset looks nice. Other than that the full white frame is too much.

Stallionforce

perfect, but add the black/red team toupe saddle. that would be very nice on that build.

wez312

white hoods! And white wall tires...I'm drooling just thinking about it!

owenh

A red saddle would look freakin sweeet

stewardmike03

red/black tires too...

nvr

$15 for your old bars.

veggiemafia

1. It looked better before, the black spacers/white stem thing isn't clean looking at all.

2. Black bar tape looked better, too.

3. Why did $200 handlebars seem like a wise investment when you have that wheelset? Not to mention spending money on a stem and seatpost basically because they're white.

Longfemur

You should get together with that other guy who is asking if he should use white bar tape now that he has a white saddle. He needs someone to hold his hand when he goes to the bike shop to get it. White stems, white bar tape... those are very important decisions. You really need to check with everyone on the internet about that kind of thing.

jcbenten

Red stem.

TriEngineer

you need to have white spacers and caps.

Thirstyman

just my taste but better before

RideLots

White stem = sexy. White seatpost = too eurocool for words

adam

+100

many, many other places to spend your money

erliuic

Man, so many harsh comments. I think it looks fine. Besides, he can always put the old handlebars back on and move the new ones to his next bike.

sac02

I have been looking at those on ebay thinking the same thing, but for >$100 I'll just be happy with the Brooks I already have.

I'm going to keep them like I do with all my old parts; they always come in handy when fixing up a bike that a friend got at a pawn shop or something like that.

Personally I thought the seatpost looked better than I expected, but the cockpit didn't look quite as good as I'd imagined. The white spacer thing may be a good idea.

I'm going to assume you knew that was me, otherwise your witty and biting inter-sarcasm would just come off as foolish...

The bars were $60, not $200, but as I mentioned in a post last week, I was an idiot and bought 26.0 bars when I already had 31.8 on the bike. I decided to keep the bars because they were a good deal and get a new stem for twenty bucks. While I was at it I decided to throw in a new post for $15, and Deda bar wrap for $7 (both on sale). So the whole package basically cost about half what you estimated for the bars alone.

Regarding the wheels, I enjoy building my own (two mtb sets and 1.5 fixed gear sets so far) and am collecting parts to build a new set for this bike. The lightweight formula hubs and kinlin rims from the group buy section should give me ~1400gram wheels for just over $200. But I've re-tensioned the wheels on the bike myself and they have been straight and true for several thousand miles now, so they'll do fine until the new set is ready.

Thanks for the comments so far, like and dislikes included. White seems to be a love it or hate it type color on a bike and I have a lot of it on mine, so while I think it looks kind of snazzy, if some don't like it that's fine too.

Mac

garysol1 

When you ask for opinions...........
My opinion is looked much better before. The bike looks way to busy now.

Saint

Second that.

MSchott

I think you should have white tape, a white saddle and black stem and seatpost. That way the bike is basically white with a few accents. Right now the black saddle stands out like a sore thumb. I don't get the red tape at all.

Thanks, Mike.

Surferbruce

as another white bike owner, i like it.
if i had to nit pick, i'd keep the white stem but go back to the black post.

mr handy

It's hard to make an allez look different.

I like it because its unique.

sgp7679

are those photoshopped or real things?