Narrow bars and leverage

I'm like a dictionary between pocket and shorter. OEfuckingD.

RPM, release that wisdom of your!

You cannot climb efficiently on the drops in any circumstance.

God only knows how these hipsters on super narrow bars ride around town. Must be quite uncomfortable.

It's pretty much the same as, why do women put themselves through pain wearing shoes that will mash up their feet. By trying to be a Hipster cyclist, you're doing the same thing.

Conclusion, pain = look good.

What you said prior, I agree entirely. For me Bars are most comfortable when they are roughly the same width as your shoulers.

I missed this one. I have been riding with 38cm Major Taylors on my Bottecchia. It looks great but I feel so wobbly when climbing its untrue . I am now putting a pair of straights on. It feels like my cross county bikes of old.
Bring on the hills

You could put a couple of brake hood on it to have something to grab while climbing/sprinting.

Now I ride on 47c with the widest possible bar, potholes? I just ride over them, even no handed.

Are you suggesting that a rider with narrow bars going over a pothole no handed would fall down?

The solution is not wider bars, it's to clutch the bars as close to the stem as possible and arch your back. Having you hood up helps streamline too.

It's pretty much the same as, why do women put themselves through pain wearing shoes that will mash up their feet. By trying to be a Hipster cyclist, you're doing the same thing.

Conclusion, pain = look good.

Bollocks. I ride chopped risers because they're the best thing for zipping between cars in the city. It's totally comfortable, and the fact that it makes my shoulders look broader and more manly is a happy side effect, and actually can be quite useful when bellowing at pedestrians.

Sure, you lose a little in the way of climbing/sprinting power, but TILMF. It's not like we have real long stretches to blast down on the average commute. Fuck it, eh, let other people ride what they want.

Bollocks. I ride chopped risers because they're the best thing for zipping between cars in the city. It's totally comfortable, and the fact that it makes my shoulders look broader and more manly is a happy side effect, and actually can be quite useful when bellowing at pedestrians.

Sure, you lose a little in the way of climbing/sprinting power, but TILMF. It's not like we have real long stretches to blast down on the average commute. Fuck it, eh, let other people ride what they want.

But what about really chopped down bars? They are pointless, you can't zip between gaps that are any smaller than your shoulders even if your bars can fit.

Ride what you want indeed. Not as if there is a lack of information regarding bar width.

But what about really chopped down bars? They are pointless, you can't zip between gaps that are any smaller than your shoulders even if your bars can fit.

I can move my shoulder our the way of a wing mirror. I can't move my handlebars out the way of a wing mirror without the other end hitting something. Solution, shorter handlebars.

So what do you do with your hips, rotate them around and squeeze through those gaps.

Do you also use super low q factor cranks and then remove feet from pedals and put them into main triangle to get even narrower.

I ride chopped risers because they're the best thing for zipping between cars in the city. It's totally comfortable, and the fact that **it makes my shoulders look broader and more manly is a happy side effect, and actually can be quite useful when bellowing at pedestrians. **

It's clearly tongue in cheek, guys. As we all know tiny bars make the rider look like a prat.

So what do you do with your hips, rotate them around and squeeze through those gaps.

Do you also use super low q factor cranks and then remove feet from pedals and put them into main triangle to get even narrower.

My bars aren't narrower than my shoulders, infact they are slightly wider, I was making a point about despite the downsides, short bars can be useful. My shoulders are wider than my hips too.
When filtering through cars, the most lightly thing to hit me is wing mirrors of vans/trucks etc, as they are at shoulder hight. Normal cars mirrors are at the same height as my bars, and as such I cannot squeeze through the gap if it is too small at bar height, but can at shoulder height.

hippy needs to merge this. Scott not Scott covered all these arguments ages ago.

My bars aren't narrower than my shoulders, infact they are slightly wider, I was making a point about despite the downsides, short bars can be useful. My shoulders are wider than my hips too.
When filtering through cars, the most lightly thing to hit me is wing mirrors of vans/trucks etc, as they are at shoulder hight. Normal cars mirrors are at the same height as my bars, and as such I cannot squeeze through the gap if it is too small at bar height, but can at shoulder height.

If your bars are wider than your shoulders then you haven't got narrow bars anyway.

But even narrowish flats/risers are still usually wider than 42cm which is the average drop bar anyway but because of the hand angle they just bunch up the shoulders more than drops.

I know, I was just pointing out they can be useful, even if they are retarded

this was slightly painful to read

Massive thread dredge. Just saw these and wondered if the owner was on here - looks a bit... twitchy?

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