please explain, i just dont get them. 
why take a cracking offroad bike and put big swoopy handle bars on it, off an old raliegh town bike like me grandad used to ride?
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maryjane bars?? WTF!!!
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If you like them check out these, cause I believe it was Jeff's original idea... explaination included (about why the position is better for your wrists - ergonomically), you'll love the price too...
http://jonesbikes.com/h-bar.html
anyways have you tried em, you might like em.. you shouldn't be afraid of new idea.
no I haven't & am not going to off-hand but why the anger at a 'different' idea that some ppl like
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, cause I believe it was Jeff's original idea...
Well strictly speaking I think it was someone a bit earlier, otherwise it wouldn't look like his grandad's bike
Interestingly, road motorbikes seem to have a fairly similar position whilst offroad ones have a position more akin to mtb bars. Dunno if this is for structural or ergonomic reasons.Posted 2 years ago # -
that jeff jone's frames look terrible. i'm sure they are well built, but they just look completely wrong. And the bars too for that matter.
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I bought some as I always seem to get some wrist pain with other bars I've tried. The extreme sweep on them means you don't have to turn your wrists to hold them and since using them my hands have been fine.
Handling wise it took a short while to get used to them but that didn't take long. They do look a bit odd but I'm at an age now where I'll take a bit of comfort over aesthetics!Posted 2 years ago # -
It looks different so I don't like it.
What a fine stance to take. What do you haters ride then? Something the same as everyone else? Ride the trail centres with everyone else?
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I thought you were talking about a new "special" Energy Bar, got quite excited, bit of a late night last night.
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i ride a trek fuel ex9, a scott scale, a planet x jackflash and a bmx. so yeah, preety much average bikes.
If these jones bikes are so good, why dont you see more people using them? Im sorry, but they just strike me as being different for the sake of being diferent.
Why does it matter wherei ride anyway? Yes, i have ridden round trail centres like most people oh here have. And i enjoyed them. Does that make me inferior now?
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cause I believe it was Jeff's original idea...
Well strictly speaking I think it was someone a bit earlierYeah I thought it a bit of a sweeping generalization
, but thought what they hell 
, How about "cause I believe Jeff updated the idea and re-introduced it" 
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well in connection with the motorbike/motorcross comment i think they look wrong because i thought the point was wide bars equal leverage.curled in bars dont??no??
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If these jones bikes are so good, why dont you see more people using them?
Off the top of my head - price & very limited availability
Not my cup of tea mind, they always remind me of a shopping trolley
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It looks different so I don't like it.
or, is it "it looks different so it's a good thing"?Posted 2 years ago # -
Ive tried Mary bars. Comfortable yes, good for technical riding no, for me at least so I'm out.
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i ride a trek fuel ex9, a scott scale, a planet x jackflash and a bmx.
I couldn't ride a single one of those bikes, so I ride something different. Does that make me wrong?
Some bikes aren't wrong - they are different and do things in a different way for someone who likes the way they ride - which might not be plush 120mm trvel front and rear. Not everyone wants several bikes for each occasion, not everyone wants to pump it. Henve how single speed, rigid, 26er, 29er, bmx etc exist. Sweep bars really suit some people and mixing up components can work out as things change - eg flat bars for DH.
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I got some mary bars to see if they'd help get rid of my tennis elbow
It's gone (prob coincidence) but they're still on the bikeSurprisingly "normal" feeling, though they do tuck your elbows in quite a bit (which is what Clubber didn't like I guess)
I have them on my winter new forest singlespeed mudsurfer - technical riding it aint ! Just to raise the niche a notch, I'm after some highly angled bar ends to fit on em
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I think it's fair to say that some people mock bikes that look different even though they haven't tried them - which is daft.
I think it's also fair to say that some people ride bikes that look different because that think it sends out the message that they are special because they don't follow the heard - which is daft.
I also think that some people mock the latter - which is sensible For the record I've currently got risers, flats, drops, and yes, marys on my bikes
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Get on really well with Mary bars on my commuter but hated them when I had them on my mountain bike.
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Mary bars are perfect
...if you're a bit frail and narrow-shouldered and really wish your were riding your sturmey-archered wicker-basket shopper down to the post office instead
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Mary bars don't, in my view, look any stupider or wrong than the riser bar-with -low- stem fashion that most riders run these days ( lights fuse then runs like f**k!)
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WK is onto something there. Why don't we have wide flat bars which would be lighter and then use the stem to put them in the right position?
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To the OP.
Has someone tried to force you into using some "maryjane" bars? (Whatever they might be.)
If not why worry about what other folks do to their bikes.
Swoons at bakes's manly shoulders.
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I likes Mary bars they are proper comfy. I have them on my rigid ss and they suit it perfectly. I can see why folk don't get it just like some folk don't get ss. Hey would be a dull world if we all believed we needed full suss, knights armour, and short stems
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