BoTM Bike of The Month May 2025: Bar-end Special. Now taking entries

[raidan73]

This month the theme is bar ends. The suggestion came from @FluffyChicken and, as he said in the timetable and suggestions thread, "[if it's] not got bar ends, you're not coming in." Loads of us had them fitted to our bikes back in the day but they don't feature in retro builds anywhere near as often. Note that this applies to bolt on bar ends only, not "all in one" bars. All other competition rules remain the same.

Useful for the poll if you can structure your nomination as follows:

username's Year Manufacturer Model , e.g. @al's 1995 weird bouncy thing
Image(s) MAXIMUM OF 2
Finally please include a link to your machine in the relevant Reader's Bikes section. If you don't have an existing post now is the time to add one with as much detail as you like!
Link to all the rules http://www.retrobike.co.uk/wiki/BoTM_Rules

Nominations thread will run from now until the end of May. Entries submitted after May 31st will not be counted. The poll will go up shortly after the nominations close and will run for a week.

 

[jonthefish]

I hope someone sticks their heads out with bar ends on risers. Just to annoy the style police.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...usg=AOvVaw0eKaPLlHiH78u8JO-IgvSf&opi=89978449

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I hope someone sticks their heads out with bar ends on risers. Just to annoy the style police.

Or bar ends attached to bar ends.

 

[PhillB]

Or just bar ends, but no bar

 

[KayOs]

My bar ends on both sides may I enter?

 

[Lhatch4]

I think it was in 1998 that I saw an advertisement for "the worlds lightest bar ends." I think they came from a small startup with limited capital. Anyway I bought a set and I really liked them. I haven't been able to find another set since then. They were made from magnesium. Rather than tube shaped, they were a flat bar that was folded into an oval with one end forming a clamp to attach them to the handlebar. The word Stubs was printed on the front of the bar ends. I think they were just called "stubs." I think that was the brand name. Are any of you familiar with these? I feel like they are lost to history. I bought them while living in Arizona. Then a year or two later I was biking Dakota Ridge in Morrison Colorado and smashed the right bar end into a tree. It saved my hand but the bar end was bent out of shape and they were done.

 

[BerthaPog]

Or just bar ends, but no bar

Do I win?

 

[highlandsflyer]

@Woz ?

 

[jonthefish]

This thread needs a bike. Even if it's a bit scruffy and not a winner.
Jonthefish's 1992 Kona Explosif pro
With scuffed and useful Onza bar ends
and other stuff
Don't think I have a reader's bike thread.