Ritchey Comp Beacon Drop Handlebar

Tom Ritchey has the best mustache in the world, beating out Tom Selleck peak Magnum PI by the width of a mustache hair. True Facts and local legends: Tom Selleck’s sister might have lived in a contemporary cottage down the lane from where I spent my summers. We never saw Tom, but we did see a red Ferrari now and again. No, we didn’t. I couldn’t even afford a Ferrari matchbox car, all my matchbox cars were second hand from yardsales, and damned if any kid was gunna sell his Ferrari to a spud like me. True Facts for real: these bars have a short reach and a shallow drop. So shallow that they make Jenn from the Varsity Cheerleading squad seem like a regular Rumi. They have a bit of the ole Ritchey anti-ergo return bend to them, but way less than the Venture Max bar, which is downright terrible, like Marcel Duchamp dropped an overcooked noodle and took a photo of it and had someone make a handlebar out of it. Look, I wanted to hate these bars, just cause the drop is so shallow that they lo