I've noticed the trends are different here is Australia than to those overseas. A major one is the difference between rise in handle bars on dirt jump bikes here and to those is the US and Canada.
Most dirt jump/park/street riders in Australia seems to run high rise bars such as Blk Mrkt Bada Bings/Booms 3" or similar.
for example, my mates bike (he's sponsored my x-fusion btw) - http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb118/manikman_2007/BrodieMahersBike.jpg
Where as in the US and Canada the theme is super flat wide bars on DJ HT's, I'm not saying this applies to all but majority of bikes I've seen are like this.
eg. jack fogelquist's - http://is.pinkbike.com/photo/4024/pbpic4024551.jpg
Sometimes they are with 120mm or more forks so this makes up for lost height in bars with longer travel. But what about DJ bikes with lowered forks and flat bars? I've ridden bikes like this and it felt soo sh*t! My mates Blk Mrkt Riot had flat bars and 70mm forks, his bike felt horrible but when he got Bada Bing's, there was quite a noticeable improvement in the feel of the bike-
before- http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/3142941659_174f4758b8_b.jpg
after- http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3567/3420909732_ccc5e8edfe_b.jpg
So what's the deal? is it just personal preference, seems like a large coincidence that a lot of people from certain areas have the same personal preference. This points towards simple trend following...
Most dirt jump/park/street riders in Australia seems to run high rise bars such as Blk Mrkt Bada Bings/Booms 3" or similar.
for example, my mates bike (he's sponsored my x-fusion btw) - http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb118/manikman_2007/BrodieMahersBike.jpg
Where as in the US and Canada the theme is super flat wide bars on DJ HT's, I'm not saying this applies to all but majority of bikes I've seen are like this.
eg. jack fogelquist's - http://is.pinkbike.com/photo/4024/pbpic4024551.jpg
Sometimes they are with 120mm or more forks so this makes up for lost height in bars with longer travel. But what about DJ bikes with lowered forks and flat bars? I've ridden bikes like this and it felt soo sh*t! My mates Blk Mrkt Riot had flat bars and 70mm forks, his bike felt horrible but when he got Bada Bing's, there was quite a noticeable improvement in the feel of the bike-
before- http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/3142941659_174f4758b8_b.jpg
after- http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3567/3420909732_ccc5e8edfe_b.jpg
So what's the deal? is it just personal preference, seems like a large coincidence that a lot of people from certain areas have the same personal preference. This points towards simple trend following...
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