just a heads up, FSA is making one now...Might have to order that bar.
Any heads up to the weight?just a heads up, FSA is making one now...
777mm wide, flat (5mm rise due to a "raised" center) and 10 deg back sweep
not to mention front brake on right side? I've heard of people across the pond from me doing this, never really seen it...how do you run the levers so close to the bars like that and not have them touch the bars once you apply the brake?
Why not cut them if you liked them?I bought the Kore Torsion bar (pretty similar bar) out of curiosity.
800mm width.
It was ridiculous. Lasted on my bike one day before I took it off, now its sitting on my work bench.
If wide bars work for you, great, but I don't like them at all. I have a bad shoulder (dislocations/surgery) and I find that the wider bar seems to put more strain on my shoulder. In that one day, my shoulder gave 3 times. Switched back to my 28" Sunlines, no problems since.
The Kore bars did feel good in terms of sweep and the lack of rise. Lowered the front end of my DH bike and seemed to put me into a much more aggressive position. Pretty cool.
Awww.. and I thought you were gonna share your pre-ride brake tuning tipsPad contact all the in, if you pull really hard on 'em they do touch the bars but you never need to pull the brakes that hard. Just a bit of trust in them really!
Why didnt you just cut them?I bought the Kore Torsion bar (pretty similar bar) out of curiosity.
800mm width.
It was ridiculous. Lasted on my bike one day before I took it off, now its sitting on my work bench.
If wide bars work for you, great, but I don't like them at all. I have a bad shoulder (dislocations/surgery) and I find that the wider bar seems to put more strain on my shoulder. In that one day, my shoulder gave 3 times. Switched back to my 28" Sunlines, no problems since.
The Kore bars did feel good in terms of sweep and the lack of rise. Lowered the front end of my DH bike and seemed to put me into a much more aggressive position. Pretty cool.
I saw a pic of a wide carbon bar from FSA, not sure if it was flat or not. Think it was a sea otter. Anyone know anything about that one?
no. no. no. you cant cut flat dh bars then they're just xc bars.Why didnt you just cut them?
I bought the Kore Torsion bar (pretty similar bar) out of curiosity.
800mm width.
It was ridiculous. Lasted on my bike one day before I took it off, now its sitting on my work bench.
If wide bars work for you, great, but I don't like them at all. I have a bad shoulder (dislocations/surgery) and I find that the wider bar seems to put more strain on my shoulder. In that one day, my shoulder gave 3 times. Switched back to my 28" Sunlines, no problems since.
The Kore bars did feel good in terms of sweep and the lack of rise. Lowered the front end of my DH bike and seemed to put me into a much more aggressive position. Pretty cool.
I ride with deity dirty 30's now. I am 5' 9" and weigh 135 lbs. I haven't really been out much yet, but with what I have ridden I like the bars. They just make it harder to do table tops, and I don't think I could ever get close to an invert with them (I am trying to learn them on my dh bike.)One thing bugs me. Wide bars are cool and all and have their benefits but how wide is too wide for small framed guys? I'm not short (5'9'') but I'm rather slim being 156lb with extra winter fat and I wonder how wide can I reasonably go if I still want the bars to be good for tight and twisty turns? 730? 750?
Hardly any people need a bar that is 800mm wide unless you are 7 feet tall and ride an XL bike.
Yeah, without the bends taking out some of the vibration, I'd imagine 25.4 flat bars would be better, I'll grab some if they do a 25.4. And if they have at least 9 degree sweep, so I can use some for up.Also intersting is they are still claiming that 25.4 is superior to 31.8 for several (quite correct) reasons.