Riser bars

sicknewt

Hi all,

Just doing up my old Claude Butler Alpina for my wife to use on some smoothish trails.

She hates to be leaning forward over the handlebars too much so I'm going to get some riser bars for it - it has flat bars at the moment.

Was looking at just getting some 2 inch risers but saw you can get 3 and 4 inch as well. Presumably, the higher risers you get the more vauge the steering gets?

Any advice or opinions anyone?

Ta!

sicknewt

Nobody got anything to say about riser bars then?

toasty

Does her stem have any rise (if it has negative rise it can be flipped)? Are their any spacers underneath/over the stem.

A riser bar definitely gives you more options, a combination of the above should ideally give enough space to find something comfy. If the stem has rise and its as high as it can go spacer wise then go for a larger rise bar, there's no obvious downside I know of.

One thing of note, flat bars tend to be narrower, if she wants to keep the same width measure it up before you find some.

Unless the geometry is very slack (which I doubt on that bike) I don't think it'll have much of a negative effect on the steering, its just a personal choice thing.

Alternately you could find a seatpost with no layback on it, this would bring her an inch in as well. If she's going off road though I'd be cautious about getting too far forward.

sicknewt

Cheers toasty.

The stem is quite a short flat kore and it is as high as it will go.

When I used the bike I had the seat quite far back on its rails - I've got her a 'more comfortable' saddle which I am going to put on as far forward as I can...