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    Splitting lanes with wide bars.

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    2. Keroshii on

      It’s honestly worth cutting them down to 720 ish. You get the same look of wide risers without all the oh fuck moments of them. Its also way faster than you might think compared to full width with 30mm or so off each side.

    3. Acal0wastaken on

      I used to run wide bars (650-700mm) but recently switched to drops because of all the close calls I was having and I gotta say, once I got used to them I completely regret not changing sooner.

      Hand positions go BRRRR

    4. orrangearrow on

      I rode bars like this once. Now I have 5 titanium screws and a plate in my wrist. $6k all in with insurance. It works till it don’t. Margin of error is seriously compromised

    6. tastetone on

      i’d never risk it. i won’t even run wider angled gravel drops. hardly ride flats unless it’s not my bike. live in the ny and the riders i see here with flats are wild

    8. djodj95 on

      Why do you think there was a narrow bar trend in 2008? It started by people running bars that were shoulder width at most

    10. HuikesLeftArm on

      Bars like this simply aren’t practical or safe if you’re splitting lanes or otherwise navigating tight spaces.

      I never run bars wider than 38cm, but I’d go significantly less if I could find/afford narrower bars that I like.

    12. ApocSurvivor713 on

      I don’t like to ride bars wider than my shoulders. Like to be able to know what kind of gaps I can squeeze through.

    13. -Ghostx69 on

      This is why I never understood this fad when it started getting popular.

      For tracklocross or single speed MTB bikes? Yeah go wide as you want but for street bikes that you play in traffic on? IMO your shoulders should be the widest part of the bike.

    14. Jakeskatan on

      Couple friends on this wide bar life too, I really don’t get it. Cinelli pepper riser is perfect length to me

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