Re: Wider handlebars



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Tom Purvis

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"Tim Evans" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there any benefit to have wider handlebars ?


Benefit?

It isn't about benefit. It's about geography.

If you live on the East Coast, you must use a bar less than 22"
wide, just as you must ride a hardtail with a short wheelbase
and a high bottom bracket. If you need to ask whether that
bar should be flat or riser, you clearly don't live on the east
coast. So stop pretending.

If you live on the West Coast, you must use a bar wider than
24.5", on a bike suitable to "Fire Roads" since that's all you
have to ride anyway.

If you live somewhere between the coasts, the rules are somewhat
more complicated, but I think you'll find that they ultimately
make perfect sense.

If you live east of the Mississippi, you can run a bar up to
24" wide, but it must be a flat bar.

If you live west of the Mississippi, but east of the Rockies,
you are encouraged to run a bar wider than 24", and it can be
flat or riser, but it has to be carbon fiber. No exceptions.

If you live in the Rockies, but east of the California border,
you must use a bar wider than 24", it must be a low-riser, and
you may not use any type of bar-end. Unless, that is, you have
a bike with more than 4" of rear travel, or more than 100mm of
front travel, or a combined travel of more than 7.75". In that
case you must use a full-on, 26" (or wider) DH bar. And of course,
no bar ends.

Glad I could help.
--
Tom Purvis - http://www.arkansasvalley.net/tpurvis/
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."-Bertrand Russell
 
"Carla A-G" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Tom Purvis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > If you live on the East Coast, you must use a bar less than 22"
> > wide, just as you must ride a hardtail with a short wheelbase
> > and a high bottom bracket. If you need to ask whether that
> > bar should be flat or riser, you clearly don't live on the east
> > coast. So stop pretending.

>
> Gee, I live and ride the east coast and I use the widest bars I can get my
> hands on.
>


Why? You're tiny.

Greg
 
"Carla A-G" <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Tom Purvis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If you live on the East Coast, you must use a bar less than 22"
> > wide, just as you must ride a hardtail with a short wheelbase
> > and a high bottom bracket. If you need to ask whether that
> > bar should be flat or riser, you clearly don't live on the east
> > coast. So stop pretending.

>
> Gee, I live and ride the east coast and I use the widest bars
> I can get my hands on.


That's OK. Ignorance of the rules is acceptable.

Once.

Now that you know, you may either chop down your bars to 22" (or
shorter, of course) or move. If you take one of the actions right
quick like, a representative from the Bureau of Headsets, Suspension,
and Handlebars (HSH) will NOT need to visit your home and/or place
of business to FORCIBLY RECTIFY the situation.

Thanks so much for your swift compliance with these stated rules.
--
Tom Purvis - http://www.arkansasvalley.net/tpurvis/
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."-Bertrand Russell
 
"Carla A-G" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> "Tom Purvis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > If you live on the East Coast, you must use a bar less than 22"
> > wide, just as you must ride a hardtail with a short wheelbase
> > and a high bottom bracket. If you need to ask whether that
> > bar should be flat or riser, you clearly don't live on the east
> > coast. So stop pretending.

>
> Gee, I live and ride the east coast and I use the widest bars I can get my
> hands on.


USURPER!

JD
 
"Shawn Curry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:9I_9c.125984$_w.1560181@attbi_s53...
> No body's questioning your style, just your wingspan.


I have a rather large wingspan...

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!
 
"Tom Purvis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> That's OK. Ignorance of the rules is acceptable.
>
> Once.
>
> Now that you know, you may either chop down your bars to 22" (or
> shorter, of course) or move. If you take one of the actions right
> quick like, a representative from the Bureau of Headsets, Suspension,
> and Handlebars (HSH) will NOT need to visit your home and/or place
> of business to FORCIBLY RECTIFY the situation.
>
> Thanks so much for your swift compliance with these stated rules.


Why do I have the instant urge to want to ***** slap you???

:)

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!
 
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:19:39 -0500, Carla A-G wrote:
> "Tom Purvis" <[email protected]> wrote:


>> Now that you know, you may either chop down your bars to 22" (or
>> shorter, of course) or move. If you take one of the actions right
>> quick like, a representative from the Bureau of Headsets, Suspension,
>> and Handlebars (HSH) will NOT need to visit your home and/or place
>> of business to FORCIBLY RECTIFY the situation.
>>
>> Thanks so much for your swift compliance with these stated rules.

>
> Why do I have the instant urge to want to ***** slap you???
>
> :)


whatever that phrase retained, i think this event killed it for good:

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13779,00.html
 
JD wrote:
> "Carla A-G" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:<[email protected]>...
>> Gee, I live and ride the east coast and I use the widest bars I can
>> get my hands on.

>
> USURPER!


Bad burrito?

Bill "usurper? I never even met her!" S.
 
Carla A-G wrote:
> "Tom Purvis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> That's OK. Ignorance of the rules is acceptable.
>>
>> Once.
>>
>> Now that you know, you may either chop down your bars to 22" (or
>> shorter, of course) or move. If you take one of the actions right
>> quick like, a representative from the Bureau of Headsets, Suspension,
>> and Handlebars (HSH) will NOT need to visit your home and/or place
>> of business to FORCIBLY RECTIFY the situation.
>>
>> Thanks so much for your swift compliance with these stated rules.

>
> Why do I have the instant urge to want to ***** slap you???
>
> :)
>
> - CA-G
>
> Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!


www.cet.com/~pennys/images/*****slapped.gif
 
Socks wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:19:39 -0500, Carla A-G wrote:
>
>>"Tom Purvis" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>>>Now that you know, you may either chop down your bars to 22" (or
>>>shorter, of course) or move. If you take one of the actions right
>>>quick like, a representative from the Bureau of Headsets, Suspension,
>>>and Handlebars (HSH) will NOT need to visit your home and/or place
>>>of business to FORCIBLY RECTIFY the situation.
>>>
>>>Thanks so much for your swift compliance with these stated rules.

>>
>>Why do I have the instant urge to want to ***** slap you???
>>
>>:)

>
>
> whatever that phrase retained, i think this event killed it for good:
>
> http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13779,00.html


Aw... Good for Richard!

See? Lycra makes you tough!

Kathleen
 

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