RF Atlas 50mm x RF Sixc 760mm (enduro bike)
Enve MTN 70mm x Easton Haven Carbon 750mm (trail bike)
Specialized 60mm x Specialized Carbon lo riser 750mm (electric trail bike)
Thomson 70mm x Easton Haven Carbon 750mm (fat bike)
Pivot Phoenix 90mm x Pivot Phoenix Carbon 740mm (xc bike)
If they match it's because it was specced that way by the bike mfr
Thomson stem and carbon bar on my SS Niner, Thomson stem and carbon bar on my cx race bike Crux pro, 3T stem and Thomson carbon bar on my roadie then Easton stem and riser bars on my older ti 26er and Ritchey bar and stem on my winter/road/cx bike.
Mismatching on all my bikes...
Hardtail - 40mm Chromag HiFi V2 stem with 30mm rise Answer 780 Pro Taper DH bars
Demo - Easton direct mount stem with 15mm rise Answer 780 Pro Taper DH bars
DJ bike - 50mm Thomson X4 with Spank vibrocore's cut to 760mm wide
The Pro Taper bars are my favourite bars - the shape is good and they have enough flex to feel good.
My SixC bars were so stiff and were horrid to ride.
Fat bike has a carbon cycles and a specialized bar that was in the shed from who knows when, full sus has carbon renthals, but they're abit high really, mated to a 50mm Thomson stem
On-One OG bars on 3 bikes - I find the shape and width spot on (actually TBH another 20-30mm would be perfect!) with whatever 31.8 stems I could find in the right length and cheap!
On my DMR Bolt I have matching DMR Stem and DMR Wingbars. But they were cheap and ex-display 😉
750mm Thomson carbon trail bar, 50mm blue Raceface Alas stem
Although i do fancy experimenting and trying a bar with more rise
a bit of a theme going on here, or maybe I just lack imagination:
601 = Syntace Megaforce 2 30mm stem; Syntace Vector carbon 780mm bars 20mm rise, 8deg backsweep
301 = Syntace Megaforce 2 30mm stem; Syntace Vector carbon 760mm bars 10mm rise, 8deg backsweep (it's just a bit lower to accommodate for 29er on the front)
P7 = Syntace Megaforce 2 30mm stem, Syntace Vector carbon 780mm bars 20mm rise, 8deg backsweep
Renthal Fatbars 760mm low rise
Renthal Duo 50mm
I like my parts to match and not be overdone with graphics.
Alpkit/Sonder/Love Mud 35mm stem and 780mm riser bar on the nearly finished Sherpa. Bars feel nice, although not ridden properly yet. Bargain basement prices for decent kit, like most Alpkit stuff.
Wow Ecky...you have expensive taste in stems and bars, but I like the subtle graphic style of that syntace stuff. As someone else mention, I really wish the renthal stuff was just plain black...not a fan of the black/gold scheme
Five - Fatbars and black Hope AM/FR 35mm stem.
P7 - very short Renthal Apex and matt black Chromag OSX
Both combos look and feel great.
Five - Renthal Fat and Joystick Builder
I think it looks ok, but came with the bike (2nd hand), haven't felt the need to change. That said the torx stem bolts were made of cheese! They got swapped for hex bolts.
To be fair, there wasn't much thought went into the initial purchase, as it was what came with the bike, but I was sufficiently impressed with the Syntace stuff to buy some more for later builds.expensive taste in stems and bars
Specialized alloy high rise cut to 740mm (graphics removed) and Hope AM/FR 35mm stem (31.8mm clamp)
Raceface SixC carbon low rise 800mm bars and Raceface Atlas 50mm stem (35mm clamp)
I really like the SixC bars width and shape and damping - they just don't fit through the trees on my local singletrack otherwise I'd have them on both. I prefer the steering feel with the 50mm stem vs the 35mm stem but I find the reach too long on the hardtail without the super short stem.
Raceface SixC carbon bars 20mm rise/35 clamp/800mm wide (could ideally be 25mm shorter)
Raceface Turbine 50mm stem 35 clamp
If you were building up a bike what dia bars/stem clamp would you go for? 35mm (easily memorable) or ... what the other size is?
Easton Haven aluminium bar with a Joystick Builder stem.
Kona Velocity 135mm x 0° stem, X-Lite Xpert 600mm flat bar and X-Lite Enduro bar ends.
Rental fat bar lite 10mm rise and a 60mm Thomson X4 stem, with Yeti grip, on all 4 of my bikes!
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800mm wide Renthal Fatbar 30mm rise. Black Hope 35mm stem. Both 35mm clamp size. Looks great, but fits/ feels perfect. Tempted by the carbon bar but STILL have a slight distrust of carbon...
Thomson 70mm 0 deg plus Thomson trail bars - 29er xc hardtail
Crupi i-beam 60mm plus s&m chrome cruiser bars - bmx cruiser
Got a Thomson X4 0° 70mm stem on the way (to match seatpost). With Renthal Fatbar Lite, 740mm, 20mm rise, I think.
I'd quite like black bars to go with the rest of the bike, but I'd need to spend getting on for £100 to get anything better/as good as the Renthals, and would probably be in carbon.........
Norco Sight: Thomson 50mm stem, Renthal Fatbar Carbon 780mm
Spesh Stumpjumper: Hope 35mm stem, Renthal Fatbar Carbon 780mm
I like my Renthal bars, me.
Using a torque wrench when fitting might help. Any bars I've seen busted seem to be right by the stem area!
This is true, but that point is also where the highest bending moment is so is a likely point of failure regardless.
Anyway, all my bars and stems have the same clamp size. I'm kind of glad we don't still use traditional sizes where there was a small difference between road and MTB clamp diameters, (tricky for chucking parts together for a pub bike) and some manufacturers used a clamp diameter on road that was I think 0.1mm different from what most used...
Re. size to go for, I remember Renthal saying basically that the 31.8mm was stronger, stiffer and lighter than the standard (er can't remember cos there were so many different ones before 31.8 came in), but the 35mm was not any stronger than the 31.8mm (in their bars at least,) but I think was a bit stiffer (and possibly a touch heavier) - I got the impression they were making 35mm cos people wanted them to look big and strong rather than because there was any real benefit.
I have a habit of breaking bars and stems, ripping face plates off and generally behaving like and angry chimp on PCP. my jones bars with thomson stem seem to be holding up ok, although I replaced the bolts with heavier duty ones.
on my singlespeed that really gets hammered I've got these.
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huge sweep 785 wide and just enough flex to take the chatter without being a twisty titanium noodle of death
Renthal Fatbar 10mm rise (760) and Raceface Atlas 50mm.
121kg of clumsiness here and my 777 Knuckleballs are great.
Enve 40mm mtn stems and Enve 800mm dh bars on both bikes.
