I have risers on right now. They feel too wide but it is def comfortable riding them in this weather. I also use the goldfinger which works great w/ a shim

http://i14.tinypic.com/86ebupc.jpg

I got mine from the local store (Redmond Cycle) for around 26 bucks, it is the 25.4 w/ the 22.2 shim version which is nice

anybody with 2" rise bars wanna post some pics up quick? i feel like that's just too much rise, but i'd like to see some more on bikes before deciding.

Man, you all are getting me amped on putting some risers on my bike, now I'm just going to have to find some. Those azonics look dope!

I'm telling myself it's for bike polo.

My risers are 2". I'm not a fan of how it looks aesthetically, but it's comfortable. I feel boring on it w/o any seat to bar drop

Are u sure those are 2" risers? they look like at least 3" but maybe I'm wrong. Today I put a threadless stem on my bike and its got spacers that bring the bar up quite a bit. I don't need to have so high of a rise from my bars now.

i think mine are 2".
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...Garage-002.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...esInGarage.jpg
I think i want 1" next. My cancreek solos headset has plenty of spacers so I can bring it down an inch.

How wide are those?
And where can I buy chrome-colored/unpainted aluminum risers on the cheap?

hmm...

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1" rise, jaguar stem 80mm, chopped, ourys, goldfingers at the bend.

honestly, i think the jaguars are great but a neutral angle would probably be more comfy, but the downangle and risers make it really responsive for the city (aka twitchy)

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3889/barsetupck6.jpg

A lot of people run them to pull of tricks, sometimes with a 650c front wheel for barspins. They're also good for navigating traffic, since they keep your head up more and more agile in terms of make sharp turns and cornering.

don't worry about the width. ride them with your hands in different positions, then cut accordingly. shoulder width is about as narrow as i'm willing to go. keep in mind the wider the bars, the more leverage you can get.

pretty wide for me. http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...7/13ecb609.jpg

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...7/bb6c1fc5.jpg

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Im calling BS on that, other wise roadies would be riding them on Criteriums. They have no advantage at all, since you can ride in the exact same position on the tops of drops or bullhorns.

Ok, fork rake and geo may have more to do with that. But I rode a bmx for a number of years, and when I threw some risers on, I felt like I regained a lot of the nimbleness that was missing when I had bullhorns. Maybe that's just in my head, but I've read on here of many other people making the same claim. I stand by it.

LOL holy ****, i'm dying behind the computer screen!

how can they have the exact same position....considering same stem.... risers...rise.... tops of drops...dont...

easton ea30s. cut down to where the ourys fit right to the bends.

http://www.gearbikes.com/images/Hand...30RiserBar.jpg

i'm using black nitto rb201aas. 0 sweep. 1" rise. chopped down to about 38cm

Profile Design Ultra FR risers, chopped to maybe 18"? using black oury grips that are super comfy.

http://www.pixelparlor.com/images/bi...zip_bike13.jpg

i personally vow to not run risers or flat bars on a road bike, but i have to admit, i'm rethinking that for just tooling around on campus and for trackstands and such

This bike is interesting. I think I really like it.

Yeah, I have to agree. I never rode risers until recently. I didn't really see the point and they seemed a little too tarcky for me, but when I got a new bike earlier this year that I thought they'd look OK on and I just figured I'd see for myself what risers are like. They are Nitto B-259AA and have about a 1" rise and a little bit of sweep, and Oury grips. The bars are fairly narrow to begin with and I didn't cut them down.

I have to say, I don't see the advantage. Maybe if you grew up on BMX there is a comfort level there? For me they just aren't great. Actually, though I don't do bar spins it is nice that I don't have to worry about the bars swinging around and denting my top tube. I don't mind how they look, either. But I don't really like the upright riding position and they aren't good for climbing. I dislike not being able to change hand positions too. I have ridden them enough that I kind of got used to them and they aren't so bad for riding in downtown traffic...I will keep them for a while, but I definitely am not a convert.

http://velospace.org/files/cdale1-1.jpg

kinda sounds like you are... jk

i loved my risers when i used them, but now i am back to bullhorns for better climbing reasons. i've also always thought that the "exact same position on the tops of drops or bullhorns" argument is stupid because you aren't in the exact position. unless the "risers" you are riding aren't risers at all, but are just flat bars with 6 inches on either side, then, no, that is not the exact same position. risers have their advantages (upright riding position, better visibility to cars) and their disadvantages (not many hand positions, hard to climb with). to each their own.

also, LOL @ people who ride track bikes on the street and complain that "risers don't belong on track bikes."

Try riding around on a bmx for a while and experience the handling when traversing through city streets. It's pretty quick. True, hand positions on a set of riser bars can be approximated with any number of bar/stem combinations, but the possible placebo effect of having these on my bike cannot be overstated. And I'm not sure it really is a placebo effect. If anyones' got a study done on the handling of risers v.s. other bars, post up :) That said, I ride around with bullhorns because I do have to climb a fair bit on my daily commute.

edit - And not that I have any experience with them, but don't they block the streets off for crits? You don't go through the bumper to bumper car traffic, pedestrians, etc. It's still a race, not the unpredictable, day-to-day obstacle course of city traffic. I'm kinda talkin outta my ass on this though.

whenever i wanted to go faster, i put my elbows down on my grips and looked at my top tube.

I just switched from risers to bullhorns and love that much more, but when I was riding risers I rode champion (I think? Disappeared from the internet apparently) grips and loved those. Not to hate on the standard but Iv always found oury grips horribly ugly and much too bmx for my personal taste.

I'm running those risers too... but in carbon! Also looks like its got a lot more rise than yours. I chopped off the bar-end reinforcements and put on Snafu BMX grips. Not sure how wide they are.

I put my Paul lever on right where the bars drop into the rise part. It effectively raises the position of the lever since it's angled downwards slightly. It's kinda hard to explain and I don't feel like taking another photo of it.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3095/...c5d2473eb8.jpg

The HED3 is a joke.

you've got that right.