Upside down, boy you turn me…
Bike magazine, June 2017, page 16. Swallowtail handlebars my eye. What you are looking at is the age old trick of turning the handlebars upside down. The hillclimbers used to do it when I was a kid. Back in those days people only had one bike, the standard bike they went to work on. Come time for a hillclimb event they would just turn the handlebars upside down to simulate a set of Ace bars. After the event they would then turn the bars back the right way up and go back to their normal commute. Simple and easy to do, and it saved a lot of money all those years ago. Francis Cooper,