Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

No! I realise that looked like I was talking about you, soz.

Lee likes bikes guy has a stupid formula for supposed ideal bar width on mountain bikes. It clearly doesn’t take into account anyone who’s above average height.

Lee likes bikes guy has a stupid formula for supposed ideal bar width on pump track bikes

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Gotcha.

Dialing in your handlebar width
The RideLogic sweet spot handlebar width is your maximum biomechanically recommended handlebar width based on your height (assuming average proportions).

There are lots of advantages to making your bars narrower: more range of motion, more pulling strength and better shoulder health, to name a few. For most riders, the usable range is between sweet spot width and about 5 percent less than sweet spot width (for example, 750 to 710mm).

Making your bars wider is almost all disadvantages: less range of motion, less pulling strength and worse shoulder health. If you’re not a big person, there’s a good chance your bars are too wide.

If you’re very small, you might have trouble getting your bars narrow enough while fitting all of your controls. To make more space, feel free to cut your grips narrower. They’re probably twice as wide as your hands.

If you’re very tall, they don’t make handlebars “wide enough” for you. That’s OK: It’s better to err toward narrow than toward wide.

Thanks, but I’ve never ever had a problem finding handle bars that work for me 🤷‍♀️

I thought you said he doesn’t take into account people of above average height… 😀👍

His formula is flawed. The formula gives bar widths over 820mm for anyone over 6ft2.
Do you seriously think riding with with bars over 820mm is good idea just because someone on youtube says so?
Practice is what makes people better on bikes. I don't think obsessing over numbers on a spreadsheet helps.

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I'm running 1020mm bars.

Yep, I just stuck a meter stick on my dh bike, felt great round the garden. I take it back, I'm sold.

Fuck practice. I've just ordered me a Riprow.

Within a couple years, Lee knocked his ride to school down from 47 minutes to 19 minutes, and his body started to change. As the fat melted off and muscles began to show, something even more powerful happened: Some powerful, hidden part of his soul came out. Lee had more confidence. More swagger. More stoke.

And so he became a mountain biker.

No Lee, you hit puberty. Christ.

LOL is that for real??

Yup! He actually wrote that about himself.

https://www.leelikesbikes.com/lee-mccormack

something even more powerful happened: Some powerful, hidden part of his soul came out. Lee had more confidence. More swagger. More stoke.

Me every time I pull Lycra on

What's your STOKE measurement though?

Anyone wanna buy a lightly used Stanton Sherpa? I don't have the "stoke" for this off-road shit.

Immeasurable. Frightening.

This CV is magic

• Sole surviving information architect/interaction designer at a big web company. Lee always worked hard, and he used to ride street motos with the CEO — always just behind the CEO!

TLDR: Lee is clearly a few sandwiches short of a picnic; ignore his advice.

Lee -> sea

They can probs offer as much advice as us, only with the wall of park tool behind them they may be more convincing.

Brand new is £1740, so at least £200 off. Deffo less that £1740

What are you willing to pay is the more prevalent question.

https://www.llbmtb.com/product/ridelogic-bike-setup-consultation/

Internet bike fits.
We've been giving these away for free.. what mugs we are!

Thing is with all tbis info is its entirely based on application.

Bike fit for the pros isnt for us.
Bike fit for long days isnt for a trail bike.
Bike fit just on data doesnt work.

Especially when the advice usually ends up as "between", "sweet spot", "depending on" or the theory gives impossible angles and dimensions.

Just change what you think makes sense @dancing james, if it doesnt help try something else.
Its not a flippin ergo ez boy its a bike.