I came from a BMX background and I was used to narrow bars. When I got into MTBs, I immediately sawed my handlebars down to about 600mm. Over the years I've begun to leave them alone where most of the stock bars I have are around 640mm.

A mate of mine kept raving on about wide bars and I've dismissed it, until one time a high rise bar I ordered arrived and it was really wide at 680mm. So I decided to leave it alone as I could always cut it later on.

Now it's my fav handle bar... it just feels right for some reason.

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