800mm Blackspire jobbies from CRC, I thought they’d be faaaar to wide after using Easton’s EA70’s for years, but I’ve kinda got used to them now and love the nice wide feel to them.
750mm and have been for about three years now. I recently tried to go a little narrower, down to 730mm, but I missed the extra leverage that the wider bars give.
Personally I think everyone should ride what works for them but I do think a lot of people would find their riding improved considerably by switching to a 730mm+ bar.
I have 4 sets of 750mm Funn Full-On Triple butted in 25.4 standard. 2 sets are spare cos CRC were clearing them out; because they are gret bars; and because I want to stick to 25.4 for as long as I can.. I prefer the look… these bars are plenty wide, I have 47in chest..
750mm on Areil, maybe still a little too wide for tight woodland singletrack but spot onm elsewhere, not sure what size I’m going to go for on the Anthem race bike 😕
685 on xc bike, looking at the start line at races i think that is pretty wide for a ‘race’ bike but it is my all purpose one. 710mm on singlespeed and bullitt for ‘gurn/stood up leverage’ and ‘control’ factors respectively. I think my shoulders are too narrow for there to me much point in me going much wider.
Not sure on the Inbred – some fairly old RF Deus that I cut a bit off – so probably about 640mm or so. I did have some Sunline V3’s on there at 710mm, but they were a bit wide given that I use it a lot on the road to get miles in during the week.
The Stumpjumper has got some 710mm KCNC low risers on. Not sure if they are too wide for me or not. I keep thinking that they’d be better with a teeny bit off, but will give it a while longer to be indecisive.
I wonder if there are different measurement methods going on here (some seem very high). Mine is for the bars without the grips, straight line centre of bar to opposite centre.
680mm cut down from 720mm after I kept hitting trail side trees!
Typical case of reading magazine that said you must fit wider bars, spending the money, thinking it’s great and then realising that I am an individual.
Got suckered into it, not thinking that most journo’s are taller than me. Said journo probably feels obliged by way of free trips to fantastic launch locations provided by the importers of wide bars etc that have warehouses full to shift.
I recently stuck some ‘narrow’ 710 bars on the sovereign I have just built up. It felt great through tight singletrack (not having to worry about catching the bars) but not as good everywhere else.
I’m going to chop a bit of the chumba bars to make them a bit more singletrack friendly.
I’ve gto some Sunline V1s which were at 745mm but on some of my local singletrack I kept holding people up because I got stuck between the trees. I’ve cut them down to 720mm and they feel perfect now. I’m only a small guy, though.
