nitto flat bars?
 

Anyone know anything about the Nitto Flat Bars that they used to have over at reload?
http://reloadbags.com/bags/list.php?t=handlebars
I can't find anything about them anywhere else online. Thanks.

They look pretty flat. Nitto makes pretty much universally well regarded products so no worries.

Sorry. Maybe that wasn't clear. I meant, where else could one find them. I can't even find a mention of them anywhere else online.

That bar looks horribly uncomfortable to me with no backsweep. My pick would be the Surly Torsion Bar (666mm wide, made by Nitto) if I was going to a flat bar.

'Sup New Brunswick?!

I'm Jay. I ride a black Spicer with red grips/tires when it isn't in pieces in my living room post-car crash. Who are you?

backsweep is only ergonomic if the bars are wide. At the widths many people cut xc bars too you'd actually want a little foresweep.

I'd disagree but its your wrists.

put your hands in front of you a few inches apart with your wrists straight. Which way do they bend.

Backsweep on "flat" xc bars is because they are meant to be 50some centimeters wide
riser have even more backsweep because they are 60some cms.
Once you get significantly narrower then your shoulders(like the 20some cm alot of people cut them) they should have foresweep it's just simple the way people are built.

Its not the way I'm built. There are plenty of narrow bars out there with lots of backsweep, I have about five or six sitting in my parts boxes. One of my favorites is a 23" flat bar with about 10 deg. of backsweep, or a 21.5" 3/4" riser I pulled off a recumbent with about 15 deg of backsweep. I guess I could see where its not for everyone but a straight bar, no matter how wide or narrow, just kills me.

You want FLAT bars? save yourself some money and take a trip to the hardware store.

http://www.plumbingsupply.com/images/copperhardpipe.jpg

"Alright, sir, one three-foot copper length of bloody, horrific death, your total comes to $11.76."

It appears as though we have a misunderstanding. I would consider 23 or 21 inches still close to the width the bars were designed to be(if not the complete width) and more importantly it is not "significantly narrower then you shoulders." I was talking about backsweep being inappropriate after people cut their bars down to half that size or less.

Wha? How narrow are people cutting their XC bars to? I haven't seen any narrower than 20 or so inches.

Anywho, if Nitto is going to sell a bar with no sweep with the intention of having it cut down, why put so much length on it anyways?

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11.../_MG_75922.jpg

first bike with flat bars I found in the picture thread not the worst offender but definitely under 20".

road drops are usually between 15 and 17 inches and a lot of the bars on bikes I see posted as substantially smaller then that. I have no clue why nitto would make the bar and I doubt it is just to be cut off.

will you say more, please? is copper too soft to be clamped by a stem? will it buckle under the weight of leaning/pulling on it? i'm curiuos

babychris has bars that are about 12" wide. (literally the grips touch the stem and the bars stop at the end of the grips)

and i make fun of them every time i see them.

edit: and a pic!
http://static.flickr.com/98/265421466_496f627308.jpg

Lots of people here have their bars cut to only fit one fist on each side...I have no idea how friendly that is with skidding, it just seems really unsafe and not worth it when you want to change your hand position...at all.

agreed times infinity. i like my chopped risers for polo, but for long rides they suck.
i wanna know how they sprint with their hands on their stems. crazy.

I like the Nitto-produced, Jitensha-designed flat bar:

http://jitensha.com/eng/images/nittofltbr.jpg

http://jitensha.com/eng/flatbar05.html

Agreed on the Jitensha/Nittos. Super comph for extended rides...

I see, miscommunication. I thought you meant bars on an XC bike, not flat bars on a street bike.

Yeah apparently I wasn't very clear.

I've seen a handful of what are ostensibly xc bikes with tiny bars too but yeah I was referring to the "let me cut my bars so narrow that I can squeeze them between spaces my ass won't fit through so people think I am a hardcore urban warrior even if I lose all leverage and the control and speed that comes with it bars."

Not that cutting bars is always bad. I actually cut my ssxc bars down a couple of cms. Even if I lose some leverage the penalty for clipping a bar on a tree cause it was slightly wider then I'm used to is much worse. They are still well within the range of normal xc bars though.

When I start getting paid again, i'm buying one of those. That thing is dope.

Uh...really?