Author Topic: Big Bars! (Read 4452 times)

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

TwoBobRob · « **Reply #1 on:** October 22, 2012, 08:45 PM »

Part fashion, part necessity due to modern bikes high BBs.

Ride what feels right mate

Dark Diggler · « **Reply #2 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

Jaymz · « **Reply #3 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!!

hunterdubber · « **Reply #4 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

Say it to my face , why don't ya

As for kid ? I'm older than you

GavinDavis · « **Reply #5 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

Bigfrawg · « **Reply #6 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

darksunday · « **Reply #7 on:** October 23, 2012, 04:22 PM »

anything above "8.5 is pure fashion.

SaMAlex · « **Reply #8 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??

QUADROPHENIA · « **Reply #9 on:** October 23, 2012, 04:56 PM »

Ideal to put ya twist grip on

Mdbh · « **Reply #10 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:)

Dannywhac · « **Reply #11 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.....

TwoBobRob · « **Reply #12 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??

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.

darksunday · « **Reply #13 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"

bobbbbsy · « **Reply #14 on:** October 23, 2012, 11:29 PM »

narrow bars are for tools !!

griff · « **Reply #15 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

That'll be me when I try those bars you sent me

dordymush · « **Reply #16 on:** October 23, 2012, 11:31 PM »

i never could ride with narrow bars.
i could never ride

.
i always felt more stable in the air with wider bars.
just me though

GavinDavis · « **Reply #17 on:** October 24, 2012, 09:11 AM »

Big wide bars are for real men.....fact!

Betty · « **Reply #18 on:** October 24, 2012, 07:30 PM »

My 28" x 8" slam bars are starting to look small

fugazi · « **Reply #19 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!

gary67 · « **Reply #20 on:** October 25, 2012, 01:19 PM »

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

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I seen someone riding perfect 10's the other week at Brum and i thought it was Peter Fonda

haro boy · « **Reply #21 on:** October 25, 2012, 01:35 PM »

Big Bra's

SaMAlex · « **Reply #22 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!

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fugazi · « **Reply #23 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!

76 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 25, 2012, 09:03 PM »

Might get myself a set of these, my riding can't get any worse

The sad thing is I'm probably too old now for it to get much better

Whats a good set to get started on?

Author Topic: Big Bars! (Read 4452 times)

76

darksunday

SaMAlex

Mdbh

darksunday

griff

haro boy

SaMAlex

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