[CR] Was Coppi's turned up handlebars ... Why am I messing with Technomic stems?

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From: "Mark" <rena.cutrufelli@comcast.net>
To: <FujiFish1@aol.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:42:25 -0500
In-Reply-To: <27.67990dc2.2ef0bbdf@aol.com>
Subject: [CR] Was Coppi's turned up handlebars ... Why am I messing with Technomic stems?

Gosh I always wanted an excuse to do this. That's why I've been asking the list about subsitutes for drops that look/are right. Just turn em around. Now I have official permission...Now I feel the part. ... Or maybe keep the Nitto stem and turn the bars too for the most...

Mark Cutrufelli Feelin really Italian in Laurel, MD

-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of FujiFish1@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 4:58 PM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: Coppi's turned up handlebars ... Was:[CR]Yo!

Yep, it's Coppi, and I've got some better PICs to prove it. When I was a young neighborhood rat running around the more local metro Detroit area (suburbs, just outside the inner city limits), we often saw individuals with their bars turned up like this. We called this "ghetto" style, guessing that it was perhaps easier to hang grocery bags with bottles of liquor on the bars. Bikes like that almost exclusively had safety brake levers, and were usually Schwinns.

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