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Herself's new bike has 690mm bars that she finds to be too wide. What is the preferred bar width for the girls of STW? XC duties btw.
Ask her? 🙄
depends on how big she is.
5 foot not much lasses I knew biblically were comfortable with 520-580.
move the controls/grips in until shes comfy, apply hacksaw.
725 mm on all mine
650 on the Blood and BMX (any wider and I can't get through the anti-motorcycle gates on the canal route to Cwmcarn 😆 ). 590 on the XC bike.
Mrs Legend has 740mm on the DH bike and, current, 695mm on the XC/AM/whatever bike (but this will be getting wider very soon)
<------this------> (Easton 550mm here for mrs_oab, clearly not size that is required...)
Get some lock-on grips, move everything inwards in small increments until she is comfortable 💡
What width were her old bars, if any ❓
Gone wider recently and still not convinced ❗ In amongst the trees I am bashing the bar ends and pinky ❗ Having to alter my normal lines through various sections and being put offline for the same reason 😕 Does become frustrating occasionally 🙄
Her Juliana has 630s on it and I guess that is probably a fair start. Present new bars on the 29er also suffer from a paltry 5 degree bend which is probably not helping any.
The right width don't you know what that is. (cuts bars) I think they were better before you did that....
Go to shed make sawing noises come back (bike unchanged) and see what she thinks