i’ve overstepped the mark at 750mm [up from 711mm] i think……. rides will tell……

750mm for me

720mm but I want some Renthal Fat Bars and I’ll chop them to about 740

760 on the Dh bike.

760 on the xc bike – i said i’d chop them down a bit, but right now i don’t want to.

blimey ! i thought 750mm was RIDICULOUS until i sampled it…….

720

711mm, would like to try some narrower ones.

720

I tried the 760? Renthal Fatbars but they were far too wide. I’m now back on my 711 Sunline V1’s again and they feel right for me.

shoulder width must play a part too….?

i hear that for every 10mm of stem reduction a justification of +10mm on bar width is recommended…….. 😯

Just gone back to 711 from 780

780 was wicked fun for dh madness but for all round trail, dirt jump, larking about goodness 710-720 seems poifikt

I’ve had 800 on my hardtail for the last month, I just cut them back to 720 after clipping 3 trees on Wednesday.
if 800 has a place, in the woods on singletrack, is not it.

580…. i like to ride between trees.

lol @ mrmo. do you ride in a bamboo forest like ?

725mm.

Too wide in the saplings for my reaction times and skill. 😕

lol @ mrmo. do you ride in a bamboo forest like ?

near enough, ash saplings, i keep on catching the ends of the bars, both ends at the same time!!!

710mm, feels just right.

700mm …and only just fits between the trees on our local cheeky trails.

750 on my Pitch, 711 on the do everything else bike.

750 (answer pro taper), started at 780 and moved controls inward until felt comfy.

Just got some 780 wide bars and they made my shoulders / arms ache. 720 wide on the other bike feels fine.

They’re a different brand so its probably not a fair compairson but could they just be too wide? It felt like the bike was running away cos my arms were too widely spread and I couldn’t turn the bike where I wanted?

915 😯

http://superstar.tibolts.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=532

810mm – clipped a couple of trees about a year ago, but soon learned to wiggle / judge gaps.

780 superstars and loving them, thought I would trim them but there are not many trees on the Black Mountains!

wow – super wide average so far

750mm for me too. Haven’t ridden with them properly yet, but they feel great just riding round my back garden so far.

your bars should be 100mm wider than your shoulders.

Ton – did you make that up ? Or is it physics / myth / ledgend or a troll ?

740 on the Spesh, may cut them down to 720 though.

cycling lore, passed down through the ages………. 😀

In the house so across a few riders: DH Bikes 760mm and 780mm, 29ner 740mm – but will get cut, AM 710mm – my fav width, other XCs 620- 710mm

If we’re gonna have one of these once a week can we not just make it a sticky?

i’m to special to search cookeaa 🙄

640mm, I have biceps though.

Well just to summarize they tend to follow a standard format:

A few people post up some numbers, then some old codger questions the idea of bicycles having wider bars, someone else posts the same joke picture of that lad with a broom handle fitted to his glory,

bit more to and fro grumbling from the for and against brigades and then we all loose interest for another week or so…

Mine are 750 and 710 BTW…

685 here.. but with the 25 degree backsweep so if you do the maths that gives a width of 700 effectively (according to ragley)

relax cookea – it’s Friday 🙂

Just trying to save us all some time…

710mm or 711mm (I forget) on all of mine now. Not really planned that way but it seems to work.

Oh OK the commuter has 640s.