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Jesus they keep getting wider!
I'm still grappling with the massive changes in the 15 year hiatus I took from mtb. My 'all mountain' 2002 5 inch full suss had a 12cm long stem, back then we lol'd at the comedy width of the stock bars so I cut down my Easton Monkeylite's to 580mm back then.
I recently bought a old 2008 hardtail mtb, still old school 26er with a triple crank, and bars on that are 680mm. I've ridden this for a month now and am convinced these are already too wide. They also barely get in the doors of the flat as it is, and I'd still like to be able to do some filtering riding around town, rather than being condemned to sit in traffic as I'm as wide as a rikshaw!
I recently got some bars with more rise on them, and these are 740mm wide, thankfully with handy markers to cut them down as that already seems ridic, and now they're at 780 and beyond....wtf...going to need arm extension implants soon to be able to reach the end of the fuckers the rate they're going.