740 Easton Haven Alu with 50mm Joystick Builder stem

ah the what width and no context thread....

arms out drop hands so elbows are at 90 and measure the length.

On your current bars are you overhanging the ends? What does it feel like if you do?

Personally 780 though could go 800 I think at times

rascal - if you want to move your existing pair on. let me know - need some for a 'workhorse' build.

50mm race face atlas 35 stem and 800mm riser bars. Fit feels great coming from a 70mm stem and 720mm bars but it can get a bit tight at times in the woods.

It all depends on the rider, the terrain, the bike, etc. So there never will be a definitive answer!
I've messed around with wide bars up to 780 or so, and have ended going back to about 720, as that's what suits me best.

740mm Renthal Lites, tried wider but I'm not that tall so went back to a sensible width.

Stem is also Renthal and 35mm long.

775mm Raceface SixC 35 clamp with Raceface Turbine 50mm stem

70 x 750 on two
60 x 750
90 x 740
50 x 760

Tried 785, felt too wide. I'm 6 foot and fairly broad shouldered

Thread resurrection.
Still considering changing stem/bars.
Lots of Whyte owners owners seem to have gone over to Renthals...how good are these - is a lot of it because they are 'cool'?
Better than Spank Vibrocore/RF Atlas etc?

Syntace Megaforce 2 stem - 50mm and a Vector Carbon High 35 bar. Expensive, but you get what you pay for. Had Renthals and Spank and I found these to be a better fit. Just feels right.

780mm Bars 50mm Stem on my T130s
780mm Bars 70mm Stem on my Love/Hate
46cm Woodchippers 90mm Stem on my Fargo
46cm Cowbells 100mm Stem on my Vaya
710 Jones Loops and 90mm Stem on my Krampus
44cm Bars and 120mm on both my Roadbikes

I’ve been running 780mm Renthal Fatbars for over 2.5 years. Work really well - although looks are a bit garish. Also use an Apex stem in 40mm and that is great.

470 and 100. They aren't exactly on trend. See steel XC thread.

70 x 440

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40 x 740

Last bike came with 700mm bars and a 70mm stem. I changed to a 780mm bar and 50mm stem. My Strava times went down and I felt in more control at speed. Tree linedtrails got a bit more tight though.

Swapped bike and it has 760mm bars and a 35mm stem. Happy with the stem length but my hands feel more 'straight' on the bars which isn't as comfortable over longer distance riding. Looks like the new bars have less sweep - so I'm going to try a bar with more Sweep and going back to 780mm length and see how that goes.

Incidentally the old bike had a 31.8mm stem clamp and the new one has 35mm so wonder if that's made things stiffer and less comfortable?

Going to try a cheap handlebar with more sweep and see how that is. Per another thread Planet X seem to be pumping out their el guapo saloon bar out in 780mm with a 35mm bar clamp for £13 instead of £30 at the moment so going to give that a whirl (it was what was on my last bike in 780mm but with the 31.8mm clamp).

Running 50 x 780 on my T130C, Chromag Ranger stem and Chromag Cutlass Carbon bar, best I've used by far. Was always a fan of Easton bar stems but my Haven 35's were just too stiff, the Cutlass' have a nice degree of give to them but still feel solid. The stem is a hefty lump but it hasn't slipped, creaked and it looks awesome. Plus the bars have orange decals to match the bike, so there's that as well!

I used to run 800mm on all my bikes with 35-60mm stems, but recently move to Renthal Fatbars with 780x35(Burgtec stem) and 780x50(hope stem) on my bikes (yes, 2 Whytes). They also have the same bar height and use the same grips. It's nice having consistency on contact points when jumping between bikes. Both bars are also 31.8- I never got on with the stiffness of 35mm bars.

My stems are 35mm to 60mm depending on bike length.

Bars all 780mm or thereabouts at the mo, which seems to have become the new normal for trail and enduro bikes - looking at OE spec lists.

Race Face Sixc are my favourite bar, and I have some very good Superstar carbon bars on two of my bikes but I think they stopped doing them now.

Easton Haven 35 70mm stem, and 750mm high rise bar. Longer stem than is current fashion I know, but as I'm of the long body, short legs variety, I ride a medium so appreciate the extra reach a slightly longer stem gives. Fit over fashion.

33mm / 800mm

Both 35mm flavour

Very DHy for a T130 I know

760mm / 35mm. If I went any wider I'd hit even more tress than I do now.