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Ones with a cross bar like old school Mx bars.
I know many do not like them but they look good fun on a piss about bike.
Surly, stooge, any others? (Not some ridiculous titanium ones)
Show me some pictures of them on your bikes too if you fancy!
Surly Sunrise - great bars (if a little heavy). Got a pair on my Stooge.
Pro-Taper SE Seven Eighths bars.
These are MX/trail bike bars, but work perfectly on an MTB. Got some on my Surly Krampus.
Bear in mind that most of this type of bar are 22.2 mm or 7/8ths of an inch (thus the Pro-Taper name).
So you'll need a shim, or use a BMX stem.
Pretty sure I've got an old club roost clamp on brace in the garage if you want to add it to any other bars?
I think I have on of those too. Its the overall aesthetic I like for a muck about bike. I like the welded look of the stooge and surly bars. I have looked at mx bars but they are over 1Kg! While I am not a weight weeny even I bulk at that!
P.S. I aware of the 22mm requirement. I have bmx stems
Think the Pro-Taper ones are 800g or so.
Very similar weight to the Surly and Stooge bars.
Slightly different aesthetic though - welded as opposed to the clamp on brace.
Oh yeah, and my Transition Klunker had some on too. No name steel, I assume Transition used steel welded brace MX bars or similar.
So I'm running 3 bikes with big, wide klunkerish bars 😆
They are very comfy. Most have a 12-15 degree sweep, nice and wide at 800mm+, on a big 29 plus bike or cruiser, they're spot on.
Steel MX bars are heavy as hell, but aluminum ones are under 800g with astonishing 4mm wall thickness 😀 (so forget about your standard barends)
Got one few years back, nice backsweep and 820mm wide, it was also pretty cheap (under 30GBP) and the brand name was Vicma if that will help.
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I was gonna buy some alloy MX bars but got the alloy Stooge moto instead.
MX bars are be really stiff, you'll miss the buzz absorption of thinner wall lighter bike bar. Removing the brace will help slightly.
I also have a stooge junker bar but in two minds wether to try it as its steel and has a brace so will it be too stiff to run on a rigid bike?
Stooge Junker here too. 750g, so a solid half kilo heavier than the Answer 20/20 it replaced. It meant I could ditch the gopping hi-rise stem, and it's a good bit wider too. It's a decent placeholder until I come into enough money that a Moonriser seems like a reasonable purchase!
It's on a rigid SS 26er which is otherwise quite light, so it's not the end of the world. Not noticed any extra stiffness/give compared to the 20/20, but there's a 2.75 or 3" tyre on the front, and I've usually got more pressing issues to concentrate on when I'm going downhill. Not done any big rides on it for ages either, it's more of a hack about bike.
I can handle the 750g. The stooge looks like too much sweep for me which puts me off but surly have the same tax as VW transporters.
The high level of sweep on the Stooge puts me off for drops etc.
I used some basic steel 7/8ths moto bars from ebay with a shim (to fit a 25.4 stem) on an early 90's Rockhopper. Think they were only about £15. As above though they are heavy and really stiff, my hands end up pretty beaten up as there's no give in the bars, with a 2.2 tyre.
The Surly bars are a bit less swept than the Stooge ones - 15 as opposed to 20 degrees.
Have a look around, I found them for about £65 when I bought them, so same price as the Junker bars.
I’ve got both the Stooge Moto and the 85mm Junker bars.
I’ve not noticed the weight of the Junkers, but I did swap bouncy forks and the Motos for the rigid forks and Junkers on my MK3 Stooge. The back sweep is perfect on either, 17 degrees on the Motos and 20 degrees on the Junkers, especially when you consider how wide they are, 800 and 820mm, it puts your wrists in a far more natural position.
The Moonmen braced risers are lovely, I don’t know the specs but they felt naturally comfy when I rode them on a couple of Andy’s Stooge bikes.
Get these and pretend to be a new york wheelie king...
https://www.sebikes.com/collections/parts/products/big-honkin-cruiser-bars
Have a look around, I found them for about £65 when I bought them, so same price as the Junker bars
Interesting only seen them £75 ish
Interesting only seen them £75 ish
It was from Activesport - currently £67.99...
https://activesport.co/epages/80c85f8f-7a95-4b1c-9c30-e64b314f3f2e.sf/en_GB/?ObjectID=8354123
I think I got a 5% off deal for signing up to their newsletter or something.
even bigger honkin bars:
