How wide are your bars?

Nope, wider the better.
My Ragley Blue Pig hardtail has 800mm bars on, and my Stooge Mk4 had 840mm bars.

780mm

44cm

780 cut from 800.

I used to cut them down to 760, but left 800mm on hardtail and full sus and don't really notice it anymore. Just feels normal

820mm on my Stooge. 460mm flared drops on my Genesis CDF.

I’m built like a badly shaved gorilla.

760 on my FlareMax and 740 on my jump bike. I'm thinking of making 740 the norm as I find that much more comfortable. I've got very broad shoulders too.
My commuter is about 680 - but I'm finding that bike increasingly uncomfortable.

800mm

760mm but the grips add 5mm each so 770mm edge to edge. Have also used 670, 711, 740, 750, 760, 800 and 810 since 2009 (don’t remember my exact bar widths in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s but from what I can recall and also a few photos and online catalogues, they were pretty wide and then stupidly narrow!) Been on 770 on both MTBs for about four years.

The trees are very tight here so narrower would be faster sometimes but this width feels good. Even wider was better (trees allowing) when my bikes had shorter reach but I don’t need wider now I’m on longer bikes.

Whatever the width of my hallway is. I think around 780mm maybe slightly narrower allowing for grips.

760 on full sus trail (770 with grips)
730 on rigid/XC (740 with grips)

For context, I'm 5ft8.

780mm for me, having used the official formula of buying longer ones, cutting them down to 760mm and going bugger, that's too narrow, then replacing them. I've got 800 on one bike but tbh I'll probably cut them at some point, they don't feel any better for me.

I am not a wide person though and I have fairly long bikes, if I was still on my old bike I'd probably want the width more

720mm on both bikes. any wider is daft imho.

bars should be just wider than your shoulders.

I think I'm 780mm on my big bikes and 735mm on my jump bike. I think 44cm on my road bike. I'm 195cm tall so could probably experiment with wider bars but haven't felt the need.

Mine are 700 (3 bikes) and 740 (1 bike) and 620 on my old race bike. Which also has a 71 degree head angle, apparently i'll die every time i ride it...

760. Anything wider and singletrack starts to become an issue in the summer months.

At 5'10 with a 6' span 780 seems the sweet spot for me.

810 on the Fatty, for leverage.
760 feels like xc, 780 trail, 800 for the big bike (Flaremax, so not 'big' for most folk!)

Shoulders at 38cm so 38/40 on the drop bar bike.

800mm on the big bike. 780 feels OK as well, but I can't be arsed to cut them down.

720mm on both bikes. any wider is daft imho.

bars should be just wider than your shoulders

I hope never to be sat next to you on an airplane. Unless 'just wider' is 100mm.

800mm but with a decent amount of back sweep.

My go to bar is the Stooge Moto bars. I've got them on my singlespeed stooge and my geared Hello Dave.

My bars on my xc bike are 780mm.

Although I'm only 5'11", I do have quite long arms so I do realise that wide bars aren't for everyone.

I was watching Bernard Kerr's YouTube channel the other day where he showed a list of the pivot team's bar widths, non over 770mm interestingly, which happens to be my preference.

Anything above 700 isn’t practical for some of the tracks I ride. My riding buddy can’t get through some of the gaps on our routes without clipping various bits of scenery ( both growing and track furniture). I don’t find wider bars work for me either, but that is just me. There isn’t a right or wrong here as I have an old hard tail with 580s on which feels a bit weird, but you get used to it.

Behind 440mm bar is where I spend most my time on two wheels. They are rather fabulous at weaving through the trees whilst being mere millimetres away from scuffing your shoulders on the passing trees.

But that is a CX bike so not great for the Golfie.

740 on street trials bike. <600 on commuter. Somewhere around 760 on hardtail. Guessing can't remember exactly.

Settled on 600ish back in the days when the fashion was to try to get your levers as close to the stem as possible, never saw the need for them to be any narrower, and never saw the need for them to be any wider since then.

730 on both acoustic and electric

760 on the hardtail and 780 on my full suspension bike, any wider and I would struggle at various bridges/tree gaps on my most commonly used trails so stick with what I have.

785 on the gnarpoons, 760 on the downcountry machine

Found that wide bars made the bike feel sluggish and trees felt very close at times

780mm. I've a carbon one I bought on a whim,those are 720mm but not sure how ill get on with them.

Prior to those before I went all modern, it was retrobike-esque with are 660-680 and narrower.

720mm & I'm 6ft with a +8cm ape index, makes me laugh when I see more human dimensioned riders with their arms outstretched on super wide bars just coz

720mm & I’m 6ft with a +8cm ape index,

That's flipping wide on a road bike
😁

800mm
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Which was fine until I tired to hand them all up next to each other on a "6" bike bike rack

Mine are 800mm, I used to cut down to about 770 but I felt like riding a 29er when I first had one that with the higher front end would require wider bars to keep it relative.
Then I kept the wider bars on my last 27.5 and it also was fine.

I shouldn’t imagine it makes any real difference but it works in my head.

I've tried up to about 800 but cut them down to 760. Just too slow and unwieldy in tight going with the wide bars.

So weird to think that my Control Tech bars were uber wide at 23" back in the day.

I remember a guy in our group put a ridiculously wide set of X-Lite risers on his DNA Ti HT he looked like a ape, but they were probably 680mm or similar.

I have 580mm on my (hybrid) road bike (Giant Fastroad with Cane Creek ergos & SQlab inner bar ends) 🤢

And 730mm on my MTB (100mm FS with an offset rise bar), which is 740mm with grips.

420 on ye olde 531c road bike
440 on the CX/"gravel" bike
740 on the XC bike
740 on the Injooro bike

at 6ft3 the 740s feel perfect to me
funny how I originally had superwide 690's on there, and everyone was taking the mick at me skimming trees as we threaded our way down trails cos my bars were so wide, but now 740's are deemed hilariously and unfashionably narrow. everyone in my normal group has 740 or 760 Renthals.

the 420 feels a bit narrow, but 440 perfect on the drop bar bikes

780 on the hardtails.
800 on the full sus bikes.

Think that 780 is the sweet spot for me.
Thought about trimming the 800s down to 780 but they’re both carbon and I hate cutting the stuff.

800mm on both bikes, though while just pedalling along, I often have my hands holding just either side of the stem or over the top of the brakes.

Just got some 810’s from CRC yesterday, to replace the 780’s my bike came fitted with, though I am 6’2”. Friend has the same size bike, jumping on it for a moment, it felt so much better than mine (I’d borrowed the bike for a week or two previously, to test frame sizing, before buying mine).. I’d been assuming my bars were already 800, incorrectly. I’ve always had the widest bars possible, especially when 760 was the widest you could get. I had thought 800mm was too wide when they 1st came out (more marketing), for me it’s not & the very occasional tight fit between trees is a small inconvenience for a better overall cockpit feel that suit me. Don’t assume, try testing for yourself

800mm on both bikes, though while just pedalling along, I often have my hands holding just either side of the stem or over the top of the brakes.

I went from a narrow-barred old 26" to a 29er with 800mm bars. I haven't felt the need to cut them down as I simply don't think about them on the downhill so I assume their fine, but I've added plenty of bar tape either side of the stem, because I want my hands much closer together for the climbs.

For reference, I'm a lanky 6'4". On my road bike I went from the 46cm (+flare) bars that came on my XL down to 40cm to get my hands lined up nicely.

740mm on my mtb, 440mm on my road and gravel bike, I mostly ride road or gravel and anything less than 440 feels like it's restricting my ability to breathe, going from that to the 740 on the mtb always feels super wide as it is.

I endeded up with about 775 on both my bikes
5'8