Wayne, et al: This was probably as long as drop bars were around, bike riders being an inventive lot. One would not change to a flat bar because one could turn it up for easy riding and swivel the bar back down for scorching. It was done during the Six-Days to let riders rest and ride easy during the off and non-spectator hours as they circled around on the flat to keep the marathon effect going. The '20's and '30's were the halcyon days of Sixes and I'm sure the amateurs picked up on it and it was cooool. But rest assured when the guys weren't tooling around, the bars were down and they rode like in a miss-and-out or devil take the hindmost. Ted Ernst Palos Verdes Estates, CA
>A Vintage Moment
>
> I would like to know when aand how the "reverse and upturned" handlebar
> revolution evolved.
>
> Last year I bought for my Dad the bike he rode when he was a teenager, a
> 1937 Planet Jr, a local Toronto builder competing against the giants at
> CCM.
>
> It killed me to see that the first thing he did was get a wrench out of
> the tool box and IMMEDIATELY turn up the bars. When I gasped he simply
> replied "This was the way everyone rode in '37, and this is the way I ride
> !!!"
>
> Wayne (Whose Dad still sets the pace) Jolly, Toronto Canada
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Morgan Fletcher" <morgan@hahaha.org>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 5:11 PM
> Subject: Re: Coppi's turned up handlebars ... Was:[CR]Yo!
>
>
>> More upturned bars:
>>
>> http://www.wooljersey.com/
>> http://www.wooljersey.com/
>>
>> Morgan
>> --
>> Morgan Fletcher, morgan@hahaha.org Oakland, CA