Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 779
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From: Back-of-beyond, Kootenays, BC
Bikes: Specialized Roubaix Expert Road and Specialized Stump Jumper FS Mountain; De Vinci Caribou touring, Intense Tracer T275c, Cramerotti, Specialized Allez, Condor, Marinoni, Kona Rove DL
I’m not totally sold on the new bar widths. I never found it an issue to control the 600s. But it’s the trend and given that all the new bikes have them, I have to say I don’t really find them too much of a hassle between the trees. You adapt - but I think they were designed more with the lift riders coming down open ski-runs more in mind than us old school trail riders.