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Thread: More back sweep mtn handle bar
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06-12-2022, 01:40 PM #26Registered User
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So, when you run a 800 bar and a 35 stem/10 sweep, what do you think it does to your elbows? It increases the bend. Advantages? more easy to push yourself back rolling rocks, leverage and yes it opens your lungs for easier breathing. So do a little test, hug yourself and breath and then open your arms and breath, what is easier?
Anyway, you fancy yourself as some sort of expert, show us your bar set up. Here is mine
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06-12-2022, 01:57 PM #27
More back sweep mtn handle bar
“Roughly shoulder width” doesn’t seem to take into account the humerus.
Wider than shoulder width bars help create leverage over the bike that’s bouncing off terrain beneath the rider and helps amplify rider input and pressure into the bike.
Are too many people riding bars that are too wide? Yep.
Are too many people giving advice based on their own style of riding, personal ROM, local terrain and bike fit? Also yes.
Would I ride Jones H bar on a touring bike? Yes.
Would I ever in a million years put an H bar on my everyday trail bike or enduro bike? Fuck no.
YMMV.
As for the OP, it’s usually good to try one variable at a time. A reach adjustment is probably best and most cheaply achieved with a stem swap. If your wrists are bothering you then maybe more backsweep would help. Both my wrists are fairly effed, but I find that rolling my bars a touch more forward than most helps my situation- makes it easier to stabilize. (Riding OneUp bars cut to 770).
YMMV
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06-12-2022, 02:23 PM #28
Is backsweep 2022’s chain queso??
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06-12-2022, 03:08 PM #29
Have you tried something like a Jones bar on an mtb?
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06-12-2022, 03:14 PM #30
Uh ok. How about hang your arms at your sides and bend your elbows, now lift your arms out to the side and bend your elbows. Which one lets you breathe better. Who hugs themself while riding. I fancy myself an expert? I’m talking about physics and basic athletic position.
Again name another sport where you gain power by having your limbs abducted from your body.
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06-12-2022, 04:59 PM #31
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06-12-2022, 06:21 PM #32
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06-12-2022, 06:35 PM #33
Absolutely not, because they don’t fit my needs for style of riding and the terrain I ride, but I’m stoked that they fit your needs and you’ve figured that out.
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06-12-2022, 09:04 PM #34Registered User
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I think modern enduro bike design from the likes of Yeti or Santa Cruz have not jelled with everyone and so you do see those people online not being happy
I guess you can attempt to make yer new enduro bike ... not enduroLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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06-12-2022, 10:30 PM #35
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06-12-2022, 10:37 PM #36
This. Especially the part about rolling the bar forward a bit (my wrists are only slightly jacked, but they're definitely most comfortable in that position).
Our commuter bike has a bar with a bunch of sweep. Similar to a Mary bar. I can't imagine riding that thing on any real trail. I don't even like it on the commuter, I just haven't gotten around to swapping them. It feels awkward and uncomfortable. Obviously opinions vary on this subject.
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