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Title: Bar width
Post by: paulb113 on February 26, 2015, 12:23 PM

What width bars do most people ride? Mine are pretty wide and thinking of cutting them down a bit. Cheers :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Bar width
Post by: stidds on February 26, 2015, 12:42 PM

28" or 29" bars for me, cannot stand narrow bars.

Title: Re: Bar width
Post by: TwoBobRob on February 26, 2015, 01:12 PM

Don't overthink it too much.

Just look down at your hands and their natural position on the grips. If you have some bar hanging out of the ends - lop it off!

I usually cut my bars down by a small amount - the width of a roll of insulating tape to be precise, my cutting guide...

Title: Re: Bar width
Post by: rodriguez on February 26, 2015, 05:43 PM

use a dubli clip as a guide  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Bar width
Post by: paulb113 on February 26, 2015, 06:57 PM

I assume they are 29" as 30" bar end to bar end, riding bike Saturday so will see how it feels

Title: Re: Bar width
Post by: bobbbbsy on February 26, 2015, 07:26 PM

i end up hanging onto the flange part of my non l;ever side on my 29 s . 28 s are sufficient for most average size folk i think . rise is more important (min 9 ")and a stubby top load stem.

Title: Re: Bar width
Post by: insectbones on February 26, 2015, 08:16 PM

29x9 at the mo. Gonna try 28x8 just because i have some here, and want to see which suits me best.

Title: Re: Bar width
Post by: Betty on February 26, 2015, 09:39 PM

28x8

Have a go on my bike on Saturday Paul  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: Bar width
Post by: paulb113 on March 06, 2015, 03:41 PM

(http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/paulbarlow_album/Facebook/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150306_151610_edit_zpsu4bivqe3.jpg) (http://s733.photobucket.com/user/paulbarlow_album/media/Facebook/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150306_151610_edit_zpsu4bivqe3.jpg.html)


Just got these Superstar sweet sweep bars 8.3" and 28.5 wide. I may just keep them as they are for now, I felt the chrome bars were too wide and too high? I assume they must be 9"