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    letmetalktomark
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    For years (and years) my handlebar of choice has been the long the long defunct Sunline 762 flat bar.

    I must have 5 of the buggers!

    It is a pretty simple beast. Zero rise, zero upsweep and 11 degrees of backsweep.

    Sooo … I’d like a similar spec bar specifically the zero rise and zero upsweep.

    The sweep seems less of a problem but finding a bar that ticks the other two boxes seems less straight forward.

    What am I obviously overlooking?

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    didnthurt
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    I had these on my old Scalpel and really liked them. They’re wide buggers though but can obviously be cut down.

    https://www.bikemonger.co.uk/salsa-salt-flat-4406-p.asp

    https://www.mtbr.com/threads/salsa-salt-flat-carbon-flat-bar-review.1172523/

    Salsa-Salt-Flat-pilot-view

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    bikesandboots
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    Bike components.de are good for a lot of filtering options and crucially accurate data on the products https://www.bike-components.de/en/components/cockpit/handlebars-mtb/?filterBacksweep~~%25C2%25B0=11-11.1&filterRise~~%2520mm=0-0.1

    letmetalktomark
    Full Member

    Excellent work, thank you.

    The Salsa salt flat and the Surly Cheater bar are both contenders.

    Both have a slight upsweep but as I cannot fathom what that really relates to I guess I can discount it!

    didnthurt
    Full Member

    No up sweep on the Salt flat from memory unless you rolled the bars upwards. I was trying to imitate the Stooge bars on my other bikes but without the rise and the Salt bars were perfect, and because of the back sweep, they didn’t feel so wide.

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