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North road/ trekking/ Dutch handlebars is a good place to begin your search:
https://www.dutchbikebits.com/north-road-handlebars
Beach cruisers are another good source of comfort handlebars. Electra, etc.
You can also try ‘Delta’ brand stem extenders and adjustable angle stems to dual in your position.
I’ll agree that the longer your legs are, in proportion to your body, the higher your handlebars need to be.
I’d actually prefer a slacker seat tube, as I tend to spend my pedalling time in the saddle (lazy-roadie style), with my glutes? doing all the work.
It was on another thread on bar height which i thought described the feeling of high versus low bars when standing brilliantly.
Low bars fells like you're being pulled forward and you're holding yourself up, you're fixed in that position. With high bars, it feels like you've got more ability to push on the bars when you want as well as being able to move your bike about more. I disagree with lower bars giving more front wheel weighty, maybe if you don't push on the bars, but with high bars i feel you can be a whole lot more deliberate with the weighting, you can get your whole body involved, so i think you can achieve greater grip with higher bars, the average grip could be lower, but think potential is higher.
I feel the same about plush versus supportive suspension, with plush, you probably have a little bit more grip most of the time, but this is the roof, with supportive suspension, you might generally have a bit less grip, but when you really want it, you can tap into a lot more.
I was surprised to see that the Stooge Moto bars haven’t been mentioned in this thread yet. I got a pair with my MK4, and though they weren’t for me ultimately (I’m short and prefer lower bars personally) they definitely do the high rise and sweep thing well and are highly regarded in the bikepacking community as good long distance bars.
Abingham. See my earlier post.
“Low bars fells like you’re being pulled forward and you’re holding yourself up, you’re fixed in that position. With high bars, it feels like you’ve got more ability to push on the bars when you want as well as being able to move your bike about more.”
Yes! And this too:
“You dont need a low bar to weight the front of the bike because when you’re descending or going fast or otherwise attacking a trail, you’re standing up. You can put your weight wherever you want.”
And you have more leverage to lift / unweight the front.
more here on bar height, might be useful for some:
Ordered the Sqlab (how are we saying that? Ess Cue Lab? Sklab?) from Tweeks Cycles on the 7th. Website said due in for despatch in 7 days, which would have been last Monday (13th). On Monday Tweeks website said due in for despatch in 46 days...
So I phoned Tweeks, and after waiting for 10 minutes as caller number 1 finally spoke to someone. They checked and said the stock was in but they were not sure why it hadn't yet been shipped. I asked why it was now showing as 46 days, and was told that was for bars ordered after mine. Hmm. Four days later I've still not heard anything, no shipping email, nada. So I call up again, 10 minutes as caller number 1 to be told "they haven't come in after all. We don't know why. We'll have to check with purchasing. They probably won't get back to you today."
Not hugely impressed to be honest. Problem is I can't see another UK supplier of Sqlab 30x bars.
They did get back to me! Stock expected on 31 March now. Quite how it got there from 13th of Feb has not been explained...
That's a pain. I got mine from Amazon I think. Worth checking there...
Bike-discount.de have them, but they have a minimum order value of €175, which I'm not even close to. So that's a plop.
Haven't seen these mentioned yet but I've got a few pairs that I rate. Only 780mm which might be a dealbreaker for some but combined with the 70mm rise they've got a nice 12deg backsweep that makes for a naturally comfy hand angle. Obviously used to be much easier to get hold of in pre-Brexit times...