Bar ends for Mountain bike

[Shaunpr]

Hi, bar ends seemed to be the in thing a couple of years back but now is almost unseen, it did, or at least I thought, offer a bit of play for the rider to alternate posture, why have the dropped off the scene...........?

[zaslayer]

I'd imagine it has got to do with the advent of longer handle bars and riser bars..

 

The bar ends mostly provided additional leverage for the narrower, flat bars..

 

Also, with more and more bars being carbon, I would think the additional leverage the bar ends provide, may make for breaking your carbon bars a lot easier..

[splat]

Hi, bar ends seemed to be the in thing a couple of years back but now is almost unseen, it did, or at least I thought, offer a bit of play for the rider to alternate posture, why have the dropped off the scene...........?

 

They were popular in the days of long stems and narrow bars and they did offer alternate positions for your hands, but also some fantastic opportunity for hooking trees etc on narrow single track.

[Shebeen]

They are out there still, I love them as they offer much needed rest with alternate hand positions.

 

The main reason why they are not used is because of fashion. someone decided they don't look cool enough, all the pros went along and now they are ridiculed.

[Fork-it]

Goodness, there used to be some vicious bull horn type bar ends back in the day.

[Shaunpr]

the comments all make sense, bit hazardous in thick bush as well 

[Long Wheel Base]

I still have on both MTB's. They both small and not the old bulky ones. I spend a lot of time one the bar ends.

These are what I have on my 29er

http://www.eaglecanyoncycles.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IMG_1153.jpg

[LongDonkey]

Bar ends not cool......... I disagree, its a comfort thing. Yes there is a chance of hooking the bar ends on passing items, but my response is, be a bit more careful. And the knowledge you are riding on the edge of total disaster adds to the spice of the ride.

 

I passed caring about what was cool and what was not a lot of years ago.

[Hairy]

here is a end of a bar

[Hairy]

Bad jokes aside

 

Stopped using them years ago due to snagging on bushes in tight or overgrown single track.

[Andrew Steer]

These ones were the business

[zaslayer]

These ones were the business

 

ccergo1.jpg

Cane Creek released a version of this in 2018 again..

[Hairy]

These ones were the business

 

ccergo1.jpg

and the gripshift too in the background of the pic

[forkie]

 

I passed caring about what was cool and what was not a lot of years ago.

its amazing just how liberating it is to stop caring about cool. life becomes so much easier and happier. this is one of my favorite parts of getting old. not giving a sh.t

[Stretch]

I think my bar ends are still on my bike.. Not sure..I haven't unwrapped my bike when it arrived a few days ago....

[Longbarn Killer]

Bar ends are like saddle bags on a road bike. No matter what the benefits are, people don't use them because they are seen as "uncool."