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Sorry chaps silly question time again.

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SaMAlex:
About a week ago I was reading an old magazine with an advert for S&M bars, right when they first started making their own. The add showed all the height and width measurements in a "blueprint" style, along with the dual radius bends they started doing, and the upsweep and back sweep angles. I thought that it would be worth scanning in, for just this kind of question. I wish I had now.

I'll see if I can find it again.

southern andy:
cheers guys, excellent info there.

Just been out and remeasured and they are 7.5" from the middle of the stem bar to the middle of the grip bar.

so i reckon i need some 9" bars then.

SaMAlex:
8" is a high bar, not sure you will get much bigger than that. Maybe 8.5". Your stem is a front loader, which looses some height. Get a top loader stem and that will take it up maybe an inch. You could just turn the stem the other way up, but front loaders always look awful upside down. Might be worth it to see how it feels, then it wont cost you a penny to try it :daumenhoch:

southern andy:
Good idea in changing the stem, cheers mate. On my old 80's race bike i had JMC Darryll Young bars, they were a fantastic height for me, do you know what size they were ? although it may have been because i had top loader stem then though.

Gary72:
Got any room under the stem for spacers?
The new 4down catalouge has a S&M bar guide with heights, widths and up and backsweeps. No idea how the scanner on the desk here works been there over a year and then ink ran out 6 months ago :LolLolLolLol:

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