Jeff Jones has a new handlebar

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Jeff Jones’ H-Bars have been very popular with adventurers and alternative bike fans, but not everyone was a fan of the unique shape. The welded sections also added cost and weight. Jeff has thought this through and come out with a new handlebar that offers the same hand positions as his regular H-Bar, only in a simpler, bent bar. It’s not as extreme as a set of North Road bars, but there is a very distinct 45° bend to them.

Evolution of an H
Forwards, then back. Lots of room for hands and Jone’s custom extra-long ESI grips.

Width is 660. The weight is 328g, which makes it way lighter than any other Jones bar – even (or especially, depending on your view) the titanium H-bars.  Initially, they look similar to an On One Mary bar, but the sweep (45°) is much greater and places the hands halfway between a regular straight bar and a road bike brake hoods – somewhere that Mr Jones considers to be perfect.

Jeff seems very happy with how they’ve turned out and he’s made a helpful video explaining the development.

And now, here are some photos.

The bars (and other stuff Jones) can be seen here: yesweareontheweb.com/jones/ and the bars will be available through the usual selection of ‘enlightened’ bike shops. Prices for the bars are £80. The importer is also bringing custom-length ESI grips in from the USA ideal for these bars.

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Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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