Bonjes 'flat bar road bike'

[PrettyboyTim]

The definitions were laid out a long time ago

By whom, exactly?

Sorry Mickle, unless you can come up with some actual references, it's just your opinion.

I agree with User482 - if the bike is designed purely for road use, that makes it a road bike. Of course, If I had my way, we'd go back to calling them 'racers', which makes more sense to me...

 

[domtyler]

You mean like a cyclo cross bike? Oh hang on, they have drop handle bars.

Incorrect, a Cyclo-cross bike is a bike that is specifically designed to be ridden in Cyclo-cross races that are held on off road courses.

 

[HLaB]

When I had two bikes I referred to one as the MTB geared Hybrid and the fast Hybrid. For some reason now I've got a road bike I refer to the latter as a 'flat bar road bike', with the road bike being a 'dropped bar road bike'.

 

[Jacomus-rides-Gen]

I think "flat-barred road bike" is perfectly correct - a bike designed for pure road riding that has flat bars.

I think this is the first time ever that I've agreed with Bonj.

I'm pretty sure that it was me that called it a "flat-barred roadbike" in the first place wasn't it?!?

 

[Alan Frame]

"Many a Mickle maks a muckle", to mis-quote the Scots.

 

[CarnageAX]

Where are the drop handlebars when Tour de France riders are riding Time Trials. Seem pretty 'flat' to me.

 

[col]

A road bike with drops and thinnish tyres was always called a racer for me.But any bike adjusted for road use is a road bike isnt it?

 

[zimzum42]

Where are the drop handlebars when Tour de France riders are riding Time Trials. Seem pretty 'flat' to me.

those are time trial bikes, not road bikes......

 

[Danny]

I have a friend who has replaced the drop handlebars on a touring bike with flats..

Does this mean that it has stopped being a road bike?

 

[Alan Frame]

I have a friend who has replaced the drop handlebars on a touring bike with flats..

Does this mean that it has stopped being a road bike?

Or if you remove a cycle's handlebars, does it cease to be a bike at all ?

 

[mickle]

I have a friend who has replaced the drop handlebars on a touring bike with flats..

Does this mean that it has stopped being a road bike?

It never was a Road Bike, it was a Touring Bike. Fitting flat bars converted it to a Trekking bike.

 

[mickle]

Or if you remove a cycle's handlebars, does it cease to be a bike at all ?

Yes. In as much as it would fail the scrutineers inspection at a UCI sanctioned event.

 

[John Ponting]

mickle. I love your last 2 posts:

tourer with straights = trekker
road without bars = not a bike

 

[Alan Frame]

A rose is a rose by any other name

 

[alecstilleyedye]

while we're on the nomenclature bandwagon, did anyone else know that a penny farthing should really be called an "ordinary"?

does anyone care?