i've overstepped the mark at 750mm [up from 711mm] i think....... rides will tell......
750mm for me
720mm but I want some Renthal Fat Bars and I'll chop them to about 740
760 on the Dh bike.
760 on the xc bike - i said i'd chop them down a bit, but right now i don't want to.
blimey ! i thought 750mm was RIDICULOUS until i sampled it.......
720
711mm, would like to try some narrower ones.
720
I tried the 760? Renthal Fatbars but they were far too wide. I'm now back on my 711 Sunline V1's again and they feel right for me.
shoulder width must play a part too....?
i hear that for every 10mm of stem reduction a justification of +10mm on bar width is recommended........ 😯
Just gone back to 711 from 780
780 was wicked fun for dh madness but for all round trail, dirt jump, larking about goodness 710-720 seems poifikt
I've had 800 on my hardtail for the last month, I just cut them back to 720 after clipping 3 trees on Wednesday.
if 800 has a place, in the woods on singletrack, is not it.
580.... i like to ride between trees.
lol @ mrmo. do you ride in a bamboo forest like ?
725mm.
Too wide in the saplings for my reaction times and skill. 😕
lol @ mrmo. do you ride in a bamboo forest like ?
near enough, ash saplings, i keep on catching the ends of the bars, both ends at the same time!!!
710mm, feels just right.
700mm ...and only just fits between the trees on our local cheeky trails.
750 on my Pitch, 711 on the do everything else bike.
750 (answer pro taper), started at 780 and moved controls inward until felt comfy.
Just got some 780 wide bars and they made my shoulders / arms ache. 720 wide on the other bike feels fine.
They're a different brand so its probably not a fair compairson but could they just be too wide? It felt like the bike was running away cos my arms were too widely spread and I couldn't turn the bike where I wanted?
810mm - clipped a couple of trees about a year ago, but soon learned to wiggle / judge gaps.
780 superstars and loving them, thought I would trim them but there are not many trees on the Black Mountains!
wow - super wide average so far
750mm for me too. Haven't ridden with them properly yet, but they feel great just riding round my back garden so far.
your bars should be 100mm wider than your shoulders.
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Ton - did you make that up ? Or is it physics / myth / ledgend or a troll ?
740 on the Spesh, may cut them down to 720 though.
cycling lore, passed down through the ages.......... 😀
In the house so across a few riders: DH Bikes 760mm and 780mm, 29ner 740mm - but will get cut, AM 710mm - my fav width, other XCs 620- 710mm
If we're gonna have one of these once a week can we not just make it a sticky?
i'm to special to search cookeaa 🙄
640mm, I have biceps though.
Well just to summarize they tend to follow a standard format:
A few people post up some numbers, then some old codger questions the idea of bicycles having wider bars, someone else posts the same joke picture of that lad with a broom handle fitted to his glory,
bit more to and fro grumbling from the for and against brigades and then we all loose interest for another week or so...
Mine are 750 and 710 BTW...
685 here.. but with the 25 degree backsweep so if you do the maths that gives a width of 700 effectively (according to ragley)
relax cookea - it's Friday 🙂
Just trying to save us all some time...
710mm or 711mm (I forget) on all of mine now. Not really planned that way but it seems to work.
Oh OK the commuter has 640s.
710mmm
760 nukeproof warheads for me
560 I think. Do I win a prize?
hmmm, as with most things in life I appear ro be shorter than most. 670mm.
750 havocs here. love them
750mm Renthal on my mountain bike
720mm Pro Atherton (cut down from 750mm) on my hybrid commuter
god knows how big the bars are on my BMX, but they are huge!
Aye, 750 on the carbon havocs... Rides will tell......
711mm Easton Haven Carbon
Not used them yet but they seem the perfect width.
780mm Fatbars
The tip on leelikesbikes.com is whatever spacing is easiest for you for press-ups. For me that's almost 800mm but I'll be damned if I'll try to squeeze them through my local woodland singletrack - even 680mm feels tight at times!
600 on all three mountain bikes.
Yes, this is boring now - what next ? How about how much pressure do you run in your tyres ?
710(ish) Fleegles on my Curtis. 780mm Renthals (changed from 760 Nukeproofs) ready to go on the Blur 4X when it comes back with its new paint.
How about how much pressure do you run in your tyres ?
Between 25psi and 140psi. Can anybody beat that range? 😉
Bars- 235mm, pressure- 9 psi.
760mm Warheads. They feel great 98% of the time on my big bike. And I even commute in central London with them.
Otherwise, 710mm is the sweet spot for me. I've very wide shoulders so wide bars suit me fine.
Always thought we ran 30-35psi in all tyres but recently discovered the pump is 5 psi high! So it seems we always ran 25-30psi. All the tyres seem a little firm now 😳
440mm
Got 762s and 711s
740mm and 12 degrees of back sweep yeah 😀
Come to think of it, the silly sweep has helped my riding more than moving to wide bars did. I feel more comfortable stoop up and I feel as if I can grip better.
I'm going to have to go out and measure them all now. I just throw on whatever bars I have spare in the stash. I think I have 660s on my 456, it feels about right. Wider would feel like I was pretending to be a plane.
I've got something nearer 500 on my singlespeed. With bar ends, of course.
spike 777
680 and 680
It probably help to know how tall I am - 5,11. I use bars cut to 760mm. 780 felt to long, I kept trying that for a few weeks but decided to clip em. it's amazing what 20mm can do, eh?
700mm here.
700mm and 35psi
Went to 710mm on both Mtbs, but soon went bact to 680mm on my hardtail which is mainly used in the woods local to me. I prefer the longer length of bar, but there's only so many times I can catch the bars on trees without thinking I might come off and hurt myself.
My current widest bars are on my Polo bike. They are 520mm wide flat bars.
wonder what that makes the average across the thread - can anyone be bothered to add then divide ?
Maybe Elfinsafety would do so? He's a nice chap.
how do i measure? straight line tip-to-tip?
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