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

That Lee McCormack guy reckons:

If you’re male, multiply your height in millimeters by 0.440.
If you’re female, multiply your height in millimeters by 0.426.

Link to 880mm bars please

Generally, if it feels right then it probably is. And yeah, like tyres, you change them depending on what and how you're riding.

But also, don't forget to obey marketing departments...

Just clamp two sets of bars, end to end, into your stem. Then cut to size.

Ha!
Actually felt like taking 1 cm off each side.
But cutting bars somehow is different than in 2005. And they where so expensive!

That guy chats such shit.

But..but... RAAD?!

please not this bellend RAD chat again

It's ok.
Also helps with trains. That bike is so embarrassing in a civilized environment.

And yes, trees are closer with wider bars.

Lest we forget

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does that work with zwift?

"Dialed: The Secret Math of a Perfect Mountain Bike Setup" hahaha.

Golden Cheeta only

haha, yes according to that calculator up there I need 815 mm bars!! That's surely too wide to ride in any woods. Think that's for pole vaulting.

Amen. I’ve only been once but yes, it’s tight through the trees. I’m sure there’s a Fit4racing video where he rode with an enduro pro as part of his get fit plan and the pro said ‘ooh I’d have cut the bars’ and he then hit about 4 trees and cut his bars down straight after!
I’d have handguards if I lived there

I once had a Saracen Traverse but it was stolen about 15 years ago, I don't remember it having wide bars. The last MTB I rode was my father-in-law's 80's Raleigh Maverick, which was just strange, and very high-geared that had bars like a big Raleigh Bomber.

The last handlebars I had, which I thought were massive at the time, were measured in inches. And they were 10cm narrower than my current ones, 20years later.

I do like the wider bars on my singlespeed but yeah when I was commuting on the Inbred the cut down risers were much better for getting through traffic. I used to clip trees during races on my old bike - do people just cut them down now?

I'm getting a new bike and it's almost certainly going to get trimmed down to 760 or 740mm. Or I'll buy some new carbon jobbies in that width.

Years later I am still wondering how long it would take me to wrap those.

Building wheels and taping bars are the two things I've so far refused to do on bikes so I dodged a bullet if those things took off.

Seems pretty sensible. I have 750 on my hardtail and 780 on the full sus

also: bar width has gone up as stem length has come down, to give the same amount of leverage. Doesn't stop it being a pain to get through doorways and trees though.

bar width has gone up as stem length has come down, to give the same amount of leverage.

Not really anything to do with leverage, more to do with head angles slackening. I'm (just) strong enough to turn handlebars whether they're 40cm bars on a 110mm stem, or 800mm bars on a 31mm stem.