Removing interrupter brakes

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

By the way, I have had that picture of your bike open since yesterday, and I have been looking at it. It's a beautiful steel bike. My husband thinks I'm crazy because I want to take the better components off my Trek 1000 and put them on the vintage steel Fuji with Suntour parts that I'm cannibalizing for Will's John Deere. If the bottom bracket fits, I'm going to do it, even though I don't want to give up the pretty little friction shifters on the Fuji.

I like the curvy, old fashioned bars, much better than the angled ones on the Trek. I always feel like my hands will slip off the drops because of their angle. Not likely, but for someone who rode vintage steel bikes when they were new, the full curve feels more "right".

I just don't like the look of the fatter aluminum tubes, and I love the way the steel lugs look!

I notice you don't have a reflector on the front of your bike. I just take those for granted, because the shop put one on the bars, and said they were required to. (By Trek? State law? hmmmm.) I'm going to take mine off! Have to if I'm going to put on the in-line brake levers!

Karen

Karen, these are the handlebars i have in case you are interested in knowing:
http://www.rivbike.com/webalog/handl...ape/16111.html
I'm not sure of the width/size mine are, but they don't seem overly big to me. I can measure them.

And here are the levers I have that Harris Cycles installed when i bought my bike:
http://sheldonbrown.com/harris/brake-levers-drop.html

I don't like the look of "fat tubes" either.
I think you should switch parts around on your bikes any way you want to.

Reflectors don't do anything unless you ride at night, which I never do. I do carry a blinkie light in my saddlebag in case I get caught at twilight on the way home, or in the rain. Anyway, if you do ride in the dark, you should have a headlight and a real working tailight, not a reflector. Plus, I always wear screaming neon safety tops to be visible from far away.

You sound like the kind of Wild Girl who rips those "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law" tags off of mattresses too!

[Tuckervill]

Why are you changing your bars? Width? Those are very curvy. The Fuji has Nitto bars on it, and I'll probably keep those. They're more adjustable height-wise than the ones on the Trek 1000.

I don't ride at night, either, except sometimes I take a spin on the MUT on my mountain bike during full moons. I chance not having any lights because the trail is only 2 blocks away, small town, little traffic by the time the moon is up enough to ride.

Yes, I'm a pretty wild girl...I have even been known to ride my bike on the sidewalk!

Karen

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Why are you changing your bars? Width? Those are very curvy.

No, I want to try some slightly shorter reach bars- the Salsa Short and Shallow I think.

Yes, I'm a pretty wild girl...I have even been known to ride my bike on the sidewalk!

I'm SHOCKED!!!!

[SR500]

New housings, and while you are at it, good time to replace the cables, you might need to anyway.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Do you think I should replace the brake cables after 4,000 miles use?

[DebW]

Do you think I should replace the brake cables after 4,000 miles use?

You can't correlate mileage with brake cable replacement. Brake cables should be replaced when they are rusty, when any of the cable strands are broken or frayed, or when they are too crimped to reuse. In your case, you should be able to replace the housing, grease up the cable, and reuse it. However, cable is cheap and starting with a new cable may make the job a tad easier.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Hey thanks Deb!
Great new avatar!!!!!