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Title: Big Bars!
Post by: 76 on October 22, 2012, 08:42 PM: Well guys,

Keep seeing all the young guns riding with LARGE bars, heard the help for air etc etc etc, is there really any advantage? Maybe a bit more knee space but anything else or is it just looking Cool :D
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: TwoBobRob on October 22, 2012, 08:45 PM: Part fashion, part necessity due to modern bikes high BBs.

Ride what feels right mate :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: Dark Diggler on October 22, 2012, 08:50 PM: I love seeing kids who are 5' tall with big wide bars .......... and then ride holding them 3" in from the bar ends ;D
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: Jaymz on October 22, 2012, 09:01 PM: There's a lad at my local track with a KHE maceto which has a real low standover height and the seatpost tube is only 7", he has a set of Perfect 10's in it, and as diggler says his little hands are practically holding the cross bar of them!!
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: hunterdubber on October 22, 2012, 10:50 PM: Quote from: Dark Diggler on October 22, 2012, 08:50 PM
I love seeing kids who are 5' tall with big wide bars .......... and then ride holding them 3" in from the bar ends ;D

Say it to my face , why don't ya :yahoo_silent: :knuppel2:

As for kid ? I'm older than you :idiot2:

:LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: GavinDavis on October 22, 2012, 11:45 PM: Quote from: Jaymz on October 22, 2012, 09:01 PM
There's a lad at my local track with a KHE maceto which has a real low standover height and the seatpost tube is only 7", he has a set of Perfect 10's in it, and as diggler says his little hands are practically holding the cross bar of them!!
Lol,...i see that aswell round by me. Never fails to amuse :). I run 9in hoffman bamas,mainly cos im a lanky git though haha
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: Bigfrawg on October 23, 2012, 06:49 AM: All my bikes have the same bars , S&m perfect 10
I'm a big lad and that's how I roll :D
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: darksunday on October 23, 2012, 04:22 PM: anything above "8.5 is pure fashion.
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: SaMAlex on October 23, 2012, 04:31 PM: Quote from: TwoBobRob on October 22, 2012, 08:45 PM
part necessity due to modern bikes high BBs.

So a bike with a BB that is a few mm higher needs Bars that are a few inches higher to level it out?? :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: QUADROPHENIA on October 23, 2012, 04:56 PM: Ideal to put ya twist grip on
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: Mdbh on October 23, 2012, 06:38 PM: Well I'm must say my riding has improved a lot since fitting my top loader and proper ttxl bars I can hop a lot higher and I feel like I have a lot more control:)
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: Dannywhac on October 23, 2012, 07:03 PM: I can't frikkin help holding me bars near the cross-bar - I blame getting used to cut-downs fifteen years ago.....
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: TwoBobRob on October 23, 2012, 09:15 PM: Quote from: S&MAlex on October 23, 2012, 04:31 PM
Quote from: TwoBobRob on October 22, 2012, 08:45 PM
part necessity due to modern bikes high BBs.

So a bike with a BB that is a few mm higher needs Bars that are a few inches higher to level it out?? :LolLolLolLol:

That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

In all seriousness, my LTF was no more than 0.3" higher in the BB than the frame before it, but I could easily have run bars an inch or more higher on it.
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: darksunday on October 23, 2012, 11:22 PM: it used to be.....

"I run my cut down primo moes bars because I feel like the pull-up is more focused so I can hop higher and have more control"
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: bobbbbsy on October 23, 2012, 11:29 PM: narrow bars are for tools !!
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: griff on October 23, 2012, 11:30 PM: Quote from: Dark Diggler on October 22, 2012, 08:50 PM
I love seeing kids who are 5' tall with big wide bars .......... and then ride holding them 3" in from the bar ends ;D

That'll be me when I try those bars you sent me :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: dordymush on October 23, 2012, 11:31 PM: i never could ride with narrow bars.
i could never ride :uglystupid2:.
i always felt more stable in the air with wider bars.
just me though :)
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: GavinDavis on October 24, 2012, 09:11 AM: Big wide bars are for real men.....fact! :)
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: Betty on October 24, 2012, 07:30 PM: My 28" x 8" slam bars are starting to look small :D
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: fugazi on October 24, 2012, 08:09 PM: After years of not running anything wider than 25" I've now worked My way up to 27" & can't see any point in going any wider!
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: gary67 on October 25, 2012, 01:19 PM: [/quote]

So a bike with a BB that is a few mm higher needs Bars that are a few inches higher to level it out?? :LolLolLolLol:
[/quote

:LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:

I seen someone riding perfect 10's the other week at Brum and i thought it was Peter Fonda :P
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: haro boy on October 25, 2012, 01:35 PM: Big Bra's
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: SaMAlex on October 25, 2012, 01:40 PM: S&Ms new Enduro stem makes your bars even higher!
(Im not gunna tell Hoder that big bars are wrong! :-X)

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Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: fugazi on October 25, 2012, 02:20 PM: That Enduro looks lovely & there's some real craftmanship gone into it, but there's a lump missing from the top cap!
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: 76 on October 25, 2012, 09:03 PM: Might get myself a set of these, my riding can't get any worse :2funny: The sad thing is I'm probably too old now for it to get much better :'( :(

Whats a good set to get started on?
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: egg on October 25, 2012, 09:15 PM: [Whats a good set to get started on?
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these :LolLolLolLol:
http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php'topic=153104.0
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: gary67 on October 26, 2012, 12:16 AM: Or if your backs really hurting and you got money to burn,these can make you hop higher :P
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chopper-Bobber-Trike-Handlebar-18-Rise-Ape-34-Wide-Bar-1-dia-Motorcycle-Bike-/180905491139?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item2a1ecebac3
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: fugazi on October 26, 2012, 09:02 AM: They're the new S&M 'Enormous Eighteens' :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: Mdbh on October 26, 2012, 10:09 AM: Here's my stem/bar combo
(http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u431/ollyhall1/A0733191-CB6B-4424-A8EE-8E25CE5F2CE3-6365-000009E09A61EA9C.jpg)
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: gary67 on October 26, 2012, 10:51 AM: Quote from: Mdbh on October 26, 2012, 10:09 AM
Here's my stem/bar combo
(http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u431/ollyhall1/A0733191-CB6B-4424-A8EE-8E25CE5F2CE3-6365-000009E09A61EA9C.jpg)

How many X's on them bars :idiot2: :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: Mdbh on October 26, 2012, 11:43 AM: Quote from: Gary67 on October 26, 2012, 10:51 AM
Quote from: Mdbh on October 26, 2012, 10:09 AM
Here's my stem/bar combo
(http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u431/ollyhall1/A0733191-CB6B-4424-A8EE-8E25CE5F2CE3-6365-000009E09A61EA9C.jpg)

How many X's on them bars :idiot2: :

Just the 2
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: GavinDavis on October 26, 2012, 05:24 PM: Here are my Hoffman Bamas...9 inches of awesomeness :) ....excuse the crappy night shot, they are actually chrome lol.

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/i112/gavthelad/2012-09-06-401-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: oldtired on October 26, 2012, 06:23 PM: mid school back in fasion.... ligaf ;D bully 29 x 10 i think ? actually a straight pair too, bonus :daumenhoch: :LolLolLolLol:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/ff98/jimjdld/bmx/MIRRACO/tinygear2_zps1555a4f9.jpg)
Title: Re: Big Bars!
Post by: GavinDavis on October 26, 2012, 08:18 PM: Love that bike! Looks sweet!! :daumenhoch: