NotSoBigBen Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 Ignore the fashion police at your peril, bar ends and riser bars is a no no period
Stretch Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 Bar-ends are a liability if you're likely to ride through bush or grass. So unless you are a dirt-roadie sticking to farm roads I'd leave them off. hogwash - I have been riding with (albeit very small) barends my entire life and am yet to clip anything - and a lot of my riding is in technical and tight singletrack. If that was really the truth we would see downhill riders riding with 650mm bars and not 750mm or 800mm. On longer stage race type rides I find them very useful
Hairy Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 hogwash - I have been riding with (albeit very small) barends my entire life and am yet to clip anything - and a lot of my riding is in technical and tight singletrack. If that was really the truth we would see downhill riders riding with 650mm bars and not 750mm or 800mm. On longer stage race type rides I find them very usefuldifference between clipping a tree with the ends of your bars and hooking a branch with the bar ends
Guest Smimby Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 Barends are death traps......3 broken ribs and Scapula....never again will I use them
Stretch Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 difference between clipping a tree with the ends of your bars and hooking a branch with the bar ends ja..but..the area difference is so small that if you clipped that branch with the bar end...chances are it was going to clip your grip as well...and the outcome will likely be the same...at pace the hook action that a bar end presents is maybe a little bit worse than a straight grip...but not much
Spokey Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 Been using them since 1989 on all my bikes, like them a lot for varied hand position. Due to various bone fractures in hands and arms over the years being a bit uncomfortable at times, I do tend to change my hand position a lot on a ride. Now as I get older, I have riser bars and...............bar ends ha ha! I care not for fashion!
Stretch Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 Barends are death traps......3 broken ribs and Scapula....never again will I use them
dirtrider Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 Been using them since 1989 on all my bikes, like them a lot for varied hand position. Due to various bone fractures in hands and arms over the years being a bit uncomfortable at times, I do tend to change my hand position a lot on a ride. Now as I get older, I have riser bars and...............bar ends ha ha! I care not for fashion! was starting to feel alone . Bar-ends are the best thing besides Toobless on a MTB . I was thinking of fitting a pair on my wheelbarrow as well .
Hairy Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 ja..but..the area difference is so small that if you clipped that branch with the bar end...chances are it was going to clip your grip as well...and the outcome will likely be the same...at pace the hook action that a bar end presents is maybe a little bit worse than a straight grip...but not muchnegative
Harry Potter Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 I’m a roadie by heart and had a road bike for years, I sold it last year and started mountain biking, I battle to get use to the handlebar of my MTB. It feels too wide. I think bar ends on a 650mm might just work for me.
kosmonooit Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 I’m a roadie by heart and had a road bike for years, I sold it last year and started mountain biking, I battle to get use to the handlebar of my MTB. It feels too wide. I think bar ends on a 650mm might just work for me. Bar ends are much like the hoods.
JXV Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 Ignore the fashion police at your peril, bar ends and riser bars is a no no period I dont use bar ends but with 6 vertebrae fused I cant hunch over a set of bars like before. Forced into an upright riding position so I use riser bars - actually I think they look way better than flat bars anyway [emoji12]
RocknRolla Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 Bar ends are much like the hoods. Some peeps will not be caught dead in the hoods....
Skylark Posted October 7, 2014 Posted October 7, 2014 I love barends, so comfortable and awesome leverage, the desire to have them on your bike will be cured immediately once you have them hook up on bushes/branches/undergrowth etc at pace and either eat it badly or have a big wobble and save yourself albeit just by a hairs breathe. Get ergon style grips, the Giant ones work great and only cost R100, on those particular grips just make sure to only position your hands on the rubber part, not on the plastic bits near the end of the grip, they are not like the ergons which are 4 times as expensive but you can use the whole grip area, they work just as well though.
rudi-h Posted October 9, 2014 Posted October 9, 2014 so I did the test last night... After riding my new bike with wide bars and no bar ends for the last month, I rode on a friends bike with narrow bars and bar ends... wide bars are way way way way way better!!
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