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Old 03-02-09, 10:23 PM
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WillFam-Reno
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... normal to use a slightly wider bar?

What's normal? I think that conventional thought is to have a bit wider bars for leverage up front, but if have decent upper body strength to handle a narrower bar, that's okay. I personally think that if the stoker is really smooth, that narrow (or normal width) bars are less twitchy when the captain moves around.
The wider stokers handlebar is for those of us captains that might be a bit wide and don't wish to:
A) have the rear bars against our rears reminding us how wide we are.
B) have the stokers hands mashed between the bars and our rears.

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