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Thrasher
@Jezston
On my way home last night I was passed by a guy going the opposite direction who's brerklerss fixehbeik had bars so wide I could see the guy was visibly uncomfortable trying to reach them. Things looked like they were about 1m wide. Just now, I saw a bike locked up outside my work with huge wide bars and a brake mounted about halfway along one side of the bars, clearly demonstrating the rider can't actually reach the full width.
Also, all the ones I see generally have no grips, tape or even bar ends so dread to think of the implications in a crash.
I can understand the purpose of big ol wide bars on the mini velodromes, but on the street? Some of these bars are wider than the length of the stick I use to shake at kids to get off my lawn. Pesky kids.