Originally Posted by iamtim

Good on ya. I raced BMX too. Not for 16 years, but I've been riding consistently since I quit BMX in the 80s, so that lands me at... twenty plus years?

Doesn't mean sh1t, though.

What we're dealing with, here, is rider comfort. It's not up to you to tell a rider what works for him or what doesn't. *YOU* may ride so aggro and be so BMXed out that wide bars put you in a dangerous situation, but not everyone rides like you. If someone likes and is comfortable with wider bars, and they aren't all aggro and BMX like you and don't randomly run into things with their bars, then that's their deal.