I was settled on 780mm for a long time, I just recently bought a new bar which is 800mm and it felt so instantly comfortable and familiar that I've not cut it. But the other bikes still feel fine on 780mm. Tried 760mm a little while back and it felt just that little bit unsettling but probably I could get used to it again...
I'm now running 760... I did one side and i got the boy to do the other 🙂
660mm on the xc and 380mm on the cx.
Don't any of you have some narrow gaps to get through?
I had 800mm on both bikes but felt they might be a bit overkill and cut them down to 780mm
780mm feels spot on for the Druid but I've gone back to 800mm on the G1. It's a big bike and just feels like it needs a little more to muscle it around.
jimmy748
Full Member800mm on both bikes, Renthal push on grips on both, I change hand position a lot when just riding along, either over the end of the grips, or hands sat over the brake levers, I often (climb non-technical) like this, holding the master cylinders. In fact the only time my hands are actually fully holding the grips is during a downhill run or technical trail, then I’m on the full 800mm, with levers a long way in so my finger sits just in the hook of the lever.
This describes me with the exception of ESI grips in place of renthal.
General trail riding - 800mm fat bars with a 35mm stem
Endurance stuff, 840mm as I add some ergon gp2 barends (made it fun over the 820mm wide bridges at twentyfour12).
Did run a SixC bar but was bloody uncomfortable.
@yak how are you calculating your plus 2 ape index?
+2 is pretty incredible using the correct way of wingspan/height , not wingspan- height, which although can be used, is often misleading.
After people kept trying my bike, which had 750mm bars and saying 'they're narrow', I succumbed and bought some 780's. I run ESI Chunky with a lock on to protect the foam and after a few months I noticed that I was nowhere near the lock ons. I've now moved the levers in and I'm back around 750-760mm, just need to get round to chopping them back down before I clip a tree and die!
800 on both of mine, mix of trail riding/XC/enduro. Feels spot on no desire to go any wider thats for sure! 50 stem on the full suss, 30 on the HT as its a newer/longer/larger frame
@howsyoudad1
+2 is pretty incredible using the correct way of wingspan/height , not wingspan- height, which although can be used, is often misleading.
Ah, I thought it was the latter and measured in inches. So wingspan is 2" greater than my height.
760mm, or 775mm over the grips (DeathGrips).
5'8", armspan 2cm longer than height. Bike with 460mm reach and 40mm stem.
Forest trails, natural trails not that steep.
With 780s I found the forward side too far away on tight turns. Also couldn't ride through a few woodwork chicanes on trail exits onto fire roads.
I keep meaning to experiment with narrower/wider, but these are just fine so haven't been motivated to.
Just stuck some death grips on my 760 bars on the trail full suss – bar width now measures 785mm. Spot on and I’m 5’10”
@filks Are you sure of those numbers, have you pushed them all the way on? I and others on this thread have DeathGrips adding 15mm total.
I’m 5’11” with +4 ape index and broad shoulders.
Is that +4" or +4cm? If the former that is indeed very ape like 😀
I'm same height & +8cm ape index but still on 720mm bars, I think the mtb tandem is even narrower too
810mm Deity bars on all my bikes.
Trail riding and Park.
Size = Wookie
760 for trail/enduro-ey riding.
But it depends on how wide your shoulders are really!
770mm on my trail bike.
750mm on my jump bike.
Usual sort of trail riding, Surrey hills sort of stuff.
Last bike (sold about a month ago) was about 650, new bike came with 780s and they feel too big. Other tinkering going on so trying not to change too much at once but I’ll take them down in 20mm increments and will likely end up at about 720.
