What the hell were Giant thinking with these brake levers on their MASHup? (Nice name by the way). Bar end levers on a flat bar?
Maybe?
I bought some Nitto bars set up like this at the swap meet on the weekend.
I don’t know if I am going to keep the bar end levers in there or just use them with normal levers.
I guess they give your hands some protection if you want to scratch up the paint on Taxis.
Giant aren’t THINKERS. They are DOERS. Lord knows we have precious few of them these days. Sure doing without thinking usually results in the brake lever mounting setup equivalent of sticking your dick in an electrical socket just to see how it goes. But in amongst all the retards there are small sparks of genius. Like the first guy who rocked up to work on a track bike and every one was like “dude, you can’t ride that, its got no brakes, what the shit are you thinking?”
Joke’s on Giant, again. (Maybe it’s a trollbike to get the kids asking ‘what the shit?’)
2 [Bowery, street in New York City] : a city district known for cheap bars and derelicts
No.
The joke is on you lot.
Bar end brake levers were originally designed to be used on sit-up-and-beg city bikes, protecting fingers. Traffic jammers started to use them, mostly because you could squeeze through tight spaces without bashing the brakes on. Fitting them into aero bars and bullhorns came next and then the urban fixie stylists picked up the trend. Giant have just gone back to the traffic jammer stage for this bike.
Cycling has a long history, perhaps you should learn some of it.
I don’t know whether you are being sarcastic or not…
But why didn’t they just use regular MTB levers?
He isn’t, he has a penny farthing.
Hey LittleWheelsandBig - Do you dress up as Santa at Christmas and ride that thing around Brisbane?
:oops: I’ve done this before. Caused an big endo until the brake lever detached from the car mirror and slammed me back to earth.
Inverse levers are great for city bikes with Promenade / Albatross style bars. Don’t really like the flat bar version.
don’t use brakes, too easy :roll:
I’m about the right size at the moment. A bit slow uphill on the tandem during last Saturday’s 300. The downhills were another matter…
because they are offering people a choice.
Ireckon Giant are thinkers AND doers. whether people like it or not, Giant have made massive changes to the way we think bikes should/can be built. whether or not they were the absolute first to do things (thinking compact road geo and hydroformed tubing) they are usually the first big company to put their nuts on the line and sell it to millions. shit, the MCM was out so long ago I dont even remember when it was introduced… and carbon monocoque mtb frames are STILL regarded as cutting edge for hardtails.
same as cannondale. and specialized.
if want stupid inovations, check out colnagos b stay, what a raving success that was.
some things begin to frustrate me and hurtz my head…
…and then
why doesn’t such a big brand like Giant just get some ‘cool prick’ from a blog to ‘sweet fixty maaaan collabo’ with them and make a half decent well priced bike? The kids would eat that shit up.
Giant may have been cutting edge at one stage, but these days their main selling point is that they strap better components to a frame and sell it cheaper than anyone else.
Quoting because i have no idea what this means.
squeeze through tight spaces without bashing the brakes on? I’m hoping this is a joke, or does everyone run their brake levers hanging over the end of their bars? And whats a ‘traffic-jammer’? I would like to subscribe to their newsletter.
This. ‘Buy a groupset and get free wheels and a frame’. They obviously had a stack of TT levers sitting around, and used them on this bike because the people who buy it wouldn’t know the difference.
Sheep eat what they are fed. Watch the Profile QS lever price skyrocket…
My quote of the day!
spud, two-finger brake levers didn’t exist back then. As for traffic jammers, it is kind of like this. Perhaps when you are more experienced, you’ll be happy riding this close to traffic too. 
Inverse brake levers (‘bar end brake levers’) protect your fingers from getting smashed when you misjudge distances and slide along obstacles better than the end of a handlebar or full-sized brake lever. This style give your strongest fingers better leverage than conventional levers, important when brakes were comparatively weak. If you leave your ring and little fingers wrapped around the bar, you won’t crush them with a loosely adjusted brake lever. The neater cable routing compared to MTB levers is just a lucky coincidence.
The sheep-like thing would have been to spec a short MTB lever, just like everybody else.
OR to take internetz too seriously, just like everybody else… 
Those brakes look gay. Opinion shared
Wait, what?
If you’re ‘bashing’ into things, you’re doin it wrong.
PS thanks for the new sig!
But do you have to be gay to use them? That’s the deeper question (balls deeper)
I think Giant should be before the court of human rights for their ‘compact geometry’ design (uneducated opinion)