Show Us Your Cockpits

[Dirt]

My post-apocalyptic bike has arguably the most cluttered cockpit in the history of bikes.

• Camera Bag
• GPS (Barfly TT mount fits MTB bars nicely)
• folding knife (You never know when you’ll need to field dress a bear that you’ve killed)
• Moose Mitts
• Revelate bag (on the side of the stem) holds camera, food, etc.
• Frame back (inside the front triangle) holds a dry pair of gloves, lock and extra tube.
• Zip ties duct taped to the handlebars…. just in case.
• Exposure Revo dynamo light under the handlebars.

[Steve]

@Dirt 78839 wrote:

My post-apocalyptic bike has arguably the most cluttered cockpit in the history of bikes.

The only thing not on Dirt’s handlebars are, well, his hands.

[Dirt]

@Steve 78851 wrote:

The only thing not on Dirt’s handlebars are, well, his hands.

Almost true… The hip flask is on the back of the saddle.

[baiskeli]

“Show us your cockpits”

I beg your pardon!

[Dirt]

2 pounds of BBQ is a great accessory to add to any bike.

[TwoWheelsDC]

Keepin’ it simple. Also, looks like it’s almost time for some new tape…

[Starduster]

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The ’81 Trek 412.

Normally I prefer the computer on the right side, but with the taller stem I needed to install a year ago, you see the problem. The Dia-Compe brakeset is one of the few remaining OE components on this bike (though with the Kool-Stop salmon pads I prefer).

Things were even more cramped in decades past, when I ran a Nightsun Commuter lightset clamped to the handlebar.

[DismalScientist]

@Starduster 84283 wrote:

The ’81 Trek 412.

That looks like a threadless fork, but the actual fork looks original. How does one do that?

[cyclingfool]

@DismalScientist 84292 wrote:

That looks like a threadless fork, but the actual fork looks original. How does one do that?

Threaded to threadless adapter. I have the one linked here on my 1995 Trek 830 MTB drop bar conversion. Nice piece of kit. Allows me to take advantage of the whole array of modern stems.

[Starduster]

@cyclingfool 84298 wrote:

Threaded to threadless adapter. I have the one linked here on my 1995 Trek 830 MTB drop bar conversion. Nice piece of kit. Allows me to take advantage of the whole array of modern stems.

Bingo! Precisely the one. Mine came from QBP c/o my local bike shop (Papillon, Arlington). The only adapter I found that allowed for significant height adjustment. I had run a long & low Tioga Tange Prestige MTB stem on this arguably one size small frame for a long time. After two decades, I found I no longer fit it as well. I needed 1″ further back, 2″ up. There is the Nitto Technomic- beautiful traditional forged aluminum, but I thought the traditional straight “negative rise” extension was ridiculous for a stem intended to sit you more upright. So…
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More pics of this old Trek are elsewhere on the “Show us Your Bike” thread.

And if anyone is lusting after that Tioga Prestige stem, talk to Larry @ the Old Bike Shop. I donated it to him…

[Phatboing]

Finally going to see how this silliness works on an actual mtb ride this evening.

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[vvill]

@Phatboing 84414 wrote:

Finally going to see how this silliness works on an actual mtb ride this evening.

Sorta like flared drops without the tops?

Thought I was gonna be seeing some Enve disc fork goodness when I clicked through to here.

[Phatboing]

@vvill 84417 wrote:

Sorta like flared drops without the tops?

I call them Woodchippers for the indecisive, because the backward sweep is almost exactly the same.

@vvill 84417 wrote:

Thought I was gonna be seeing some Enve disc fork goodness when I clicked through to here.

Hey, now. I have other bikes, all special, and I love them all equally in different ways.

[Harry Meatmotor]

while trying to take this picture, i inadvertently took a fuzzy cockpit pic.

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edit: something about “fuzzy cockpit pic” makes me giggle.

[dcv]

fuzzy cockpit

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