They literally can't engineer "these to have the ideal ... ergonomics" for \_any\_ head angle. Because upsweep and backsweep are as personal as bar width or saddle width. Everyone is different, and roll can help to tune that. Yes, many many people use roll on high-rise bars to adjust reach, and that's doing it wrong, but a good number of other people use roll correctly, which is to tweak the sweeps to fit their body. I mean, that's the entire reason SQ Labs' bars exist with 12 and 16 degreee backsweeps.
But if these combo setups happen to match your body on your bike, that's great and you get to do the dollars to grams computation! Yay!
July 8, 2021, 8:45 a.m. - Justin White
They literally can't engineer "these to have the ideal ... ergonomics" for \_any\_ head angle. Because upsweep and backsweep are as personal as bar width or saddle width. Everyone is different, and roll can help to tune that. Yes, many many people use roll on high-rise bars to adjust reach, and that's doing it wrong, but a good number of other people use roll correctly, which is to tweak the sweeps to fit their body. I mean, that's the entire reason SQ Labs' bars exist with 12 and 16 degreee backsweeps. But if these combo setups happen to match your body on your bike, that's great and you get to do the dollars to grams computation! Yay!