Looking for a new handlebars

Swebb46

Hi,
I spent the last couple of rides debating weather to get a wider handlebar, as I’m finding I need more control over tricky terrain. I have a 680mm bar on there atm, I’ve decided to get a bigger one but don't know how much bigger any help would help allot, I’m looking toward somewhere between 700-750mm. and have £45 to spend.
Thanks Sam (:

rockmonkeysc

No one can advise you how wide to go. Try a few bikes with wider bars & see what works.

oodboo

Go as wide as you can and trim to suit. I bouhgt a Chromag fubar, standard 780mm and cut to 750mm and now it's perfect. Take a look at Superstar for cheap wide bars.

Anonymous

Depends how you ride, what your riding position is, what you ride, all kinds of things. Along with just personal preference.

Typically wider bars, apart from just being the trendy thing to do, are used for more control when going faster downhill. Was a "Downhill" thing purely but has migrated to all mountain and trail biking. In my opinion it in part compensates for the shorter stems people run for similar terrain, which again gives better control for the downs compared to the steers-like-a-bus steering of long stem XC bikes (great for straight lines in a climb though). Shorter stem and short bars makes it twitchy so long bars are used. Note that wide bars makes the front wander about on climbs a bit.

See if anyone else has a wide bar and give it a go down a typical trail you do. Think about whether you find your current bars actually too short, or do you just think longer would be better because everyone has longer bars these days (I'm a sucker for that one ).

delcol

+ 2 for chromag... bling bling.

slightly over budget though.

Swebb46

RockmonkeySC wrote:

No one can advise you how wide to go. Try a few bikes with wider bars & see what works.

cheers for the help, i'll have a go on a few of my mates bike as there around 720ish wide.
Thanks Sam

nwmlarge

have a nose through the classifieds on here and try to pick up some cheap wide bars to experiment with, bars on other peoples bikes makes no sense as their bike will be nothing like yours, unless they have the same obviously

phil_pompey

These seem a good buy, I'm looking at the xc version.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=72646