Is this handlebar an overkill?
11-19-23, 02:54 PM
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Is this handlebar an overkill?
This is my rockhopper, may someone have already seen it
and this is the same bike plus some changes
I swapped the handlebar almost a year ago, and since then i received a few critics regarding it. The critics reason is because the handlebar is kinda huge compared to the frame or the old handlebar.
do you think this handlebar is an overkill on this bike?
and this is the same bike plus some changes
I swapped the handlebar almost a year ago, and since then i received a few critics regarding it. The critics reason is because the handlebar is kinda huge compared to the frame or the old handlebar.
do you think this handlebar is an overkill on this bike?
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11-19-23, 02:58 PM
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the style police have excess angst.
‘handlebar widths for off-road bikes have expanded and contracted.
‘If it works, it works.
”what do you care what other people think?” By Richard Feynman.
‘handlebar widths for off-road bikes have expanded and contracted.
‘If it works, it works.
”what do you care what other people think?” By Richard Feynman.
11-19-23, 03:10 PM
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I like it. Ye olde early-90s MTB cockpit with 150mm stems and 580mm bars was kinda wack.
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since i grow up on a different types of bikes, on the vintage stuff i always try to find the right person to tell approve my ideas or not
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I think it looks great, I like wider bars.
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I can't live with only one hand position, so I put perpendicular extensions on my Ritchey bars, which I also shortened by about 1 cm on each side. This gives me essentially bullhorn flexibility in hand positioning, particularly with my 4-finger motorcycle-style Shimano brake levers. which enable me to do light braking from the extensions.
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My ‘96 F1000 XC bike has steeper head angles than all of my road bikes except for the 3.0 Criterium
The OP’s bullmoose is fine; it’s a throwback to the early 80s Marin ATBs; it just looks a little funky, because generally as you go wider with a bar, you usually bring it higher and closer; long, low, and wide can leave you really sprawled out.
I run a 790mm on my KLEIN, but it’s a 4” rise moto bar on a 50mm BMX stem. It seems really upright, but it’s a 20” frame, when I would normally ride an 18”, so it works
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11-19-23, 11:04 PM
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The bull moose handlebar are my favorite bar for early mountain bikes. They had a short lifespan around 1982~84 but to this day they are one of the nicest vintage bars ever made.
11-25-23, 12:59 PM
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The handle bar, as found, on this old Devinci, did little to blow my kilt up...
So, I cleaned and tuned the bike up and took it out for a ride, or two. After riding vintage road bikes exclusively for years, the Devinci rides like a tractor...
So, I cleaned and tuned the bike up and took it out for a ride, or two. After riding vintage road bikes exclusively for years, the Devinci rides like a tractor...
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This is my rockhopper, may someone have already seen it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALl-...qk68gY&index=5
and this is the same bike plus some changes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roux...qk68gY&index=7
I swapped the handlebar almost a year ago, and since then i received a few critics regarding it. The critics reason is because the handlebar is kinda huge compared to the frame or the old handlebar.
do you think this handlebar is an overkill on this bike?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALl-...qk68gY&index=5
and this is the same bike plus some changes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roux...qk68gY&index=7
I swapped the handlebar almost a year ago, and since then i received a few critics regarding it. The critics reason is because the handlebar is kinda huge compared to the frame or the old handlebar.
do you think this handlebar is an overkill on this bike?
Cookie cutter reaction to labor intensive, more costly oldschool cool that limited adjustments and didn't jive with the fugly unibrow fork takeover.
Bullmoose is always an upgrade style and cool factor wise and usually adds some comfort as well.
Ef the critics, they ain't riden it.
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