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770 on both mine. Hold the bars right at the end so probably more like 800 for a normal person.
Anyone remember the Superstar Yardstick? Funny how that never really took off.
760 plus the grips so 770 on both.
Between 2009 and 2016 I went from 680 to 810 and then swapped between 750 and 810 for tight local trails vs fast trail centres / uplifts. And from 2018 happily settled on the current Renthals on both bikes.
It must be a lot harder to sell new bars vs that period when they kept getting wider!
P.S. I don’t think the shoulder or height based formulae make a lot of sense, unless all the pros are getting it very wrong! There seems to be almost zero correlation between pro adult MTBers’ height/build and their bar width.
If the formulae considered joint angles, muscle insertions and strength then they might work but it’s vastly easier to just try some different bars. (You can see this in how some people in the gym are stronger with a narrow bench or pull-up grip and some with wider, and there’s basically no build correlation).
I've got 790 on my xc bike and 795 on my trail/enduro bike.
Professional motorbike suspension/bike setup friend of mine gets people to shut their eyes and put their hands out as if they were riding saying that your hands will go where suits you best.
780mm on my Moxie (+ whatever the grips add) with 60mm rise.....been riding higher rise bars for years. I'm a trendsetter me 😁
800mm Stooge Moto bars on my Stooge - wide bars + decent back sweep makes rigid riding even more fun.
750mm, seems to be enough for me.
760mm grip tip to grip tip on a flat zero rise bar on a 100mm FS - I think the handlebars are actually 740mm but I've slid the lock on grips out a bit.
Recently cut mine down from 800 to 780 to try and ease unnatural wrist position and achy wrists, MUCH better and a tonne more comfortable
cutting down another 5mm on each side is on the to do list
168cm tall in the morning
Burgtec RW 30mm rise (I think) and gusset S2 bars although considering a change from the S2’s for another set of Burgtec as I like the slightly bigger back sweep
800 Oneup bars on three of the bikes, and I think the Enves on the hardtail are 810
Bars are bloody expensive, I'm not wasting any
720 on the full sus (2015 bike) - feels massively wide compared to the road bikes and the 90's MTB.
800, 780 and 780 on my Pipedream Moxie, Bird Aether 9c and Stanton Sedona respectively. All with Ergon GDH grips. 6'2" with pretty wide shoulders.
800mm on all bikes, except one where i bought a carbon bar at 720mm
I dont know what i was thinking, and also cut the rear hose for that width, so changing them for 800 is going to mean redoing the rear brake hose.
****sville
