I feel like I've gone over to the dark side. My first bike without drop bars since my first 10-speed in 1967. I've been looking at the bikes over at the fixed gear gallery. A number of them have alternate bars and it was Dave Marquez's DeRosa that caused something in me to snap. I've been wanting to put cowhorn bars on my fixie project bike and Dave had some poor man's cowhorns on his fixie. He took a set of drop bars, turned them upside down, and cut them off. So I got a hacksaw blade and some bar tape and cut of a set of drop bars and put them on my road bike. I went riding today and the bars work quite well. Regular cowhorns are a little longer and that's needed for climbing out of the saddle. Not that my wimpy legs are up to that. I did a little riding two summers ago and that's been it for about 5 or 6 years. It's nice to be riding again. It will be even nicer when my legs stop hurting.

I go over to Blaine's tomorrow to remove the brazed on cable stops on my fixie project frame. He has a torch and knows how to use it on bicycle frames. Then I will start painting it.