Even though I'm a tall person, I'm a huge fan of narrower bars. Ever since I read some interviews a year or so back with some very, very fast (and still pretty tall!) people saying they ran somewhere in the realm of 760, I've been running 780 on my DH bike and 760ish everywhere else. I DO really want to try some bars with a bigger sweep. That has intrigued me lately. Something really weird though - over 9 degrees preferably!
Also, I disagree with the whole "you don't need to keep your front end lower on these newfangled bikes" - maybe that's true for frames that aren't XLs (thicc head tube lengths?) , but I'm loving that slammed stem life.
March 27, 2020, 10:41 p.m. - Lu Kz
Even though I'm a tall person, I'm a huge fan of narrower bars. Ever since I read some interviews a year or so back with some very, very fast (and still pretty tall!) people saying they ran somewhere in the realm of 760, I've been running 780 on my DH bike and 760ish everywhere else. I DO really want to try some bars with a bigger sweep. That has intrigued me lately. Something really weird though - over 9 degrees preferably! Also, I disagree with the whole "you don't need to keep your front end lower on these newfangled bikes" - maybe that's true for frames that aren't XLs (thicc head tube lengths?) , but I'm loving that slammed stem life.