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bar ends
Postby old al » Sun Dec 11, 2011 6:48 pm
I'm a road rider mainly but I do occasionally take my single speed mountain bike out for a run. I use bar ends on the bike.
I have been watching the mountain bike racing on SBS's "Cyling Central" and I have noticed that the riders no longer use bar ends. Is there a new rule banning them in racing or have they just gone out of fashion?
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Re: bar ends
Postby trailgumby » Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:17 pm
Not being the kind of bloke to give a fetid dingoes kidney about fashion if I find something useful, I didn't stop using them until two years ago when I shattered my hand against mine when I got taken out by a bike hater riding to work. They were uncomfortable and made me nervouse when I eventually returned to the bike, so I took them off.
Don't really notice their absence these days, to be honest.
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Re: bar ends
Postby old al » Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:17 pm
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Re: bar ends
Postby Nobody » Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:19 pm
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/article/p ... eed-27076/
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Re: bar ends
Postby Mulger bill » Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:46 pm
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Re: bar ends
Postby ireland57 » Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:01 pm
They help me control my hands on the long unrelenting climbs. I.e. with the bar ends I rest my hands (like playing the piano as the saying goes) but without them I hang on tighter.
I love 'em.
Pro's shed every bit of bike weight they can. Add to that they have much stronger back/corelegs and find climbing easier in that regard.
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Re: bar ends
Postby HappyHumber » Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:36 pm
Use what works for you. The author would like state opinions herein are his own.. Any resemblence to any person living or dead is purely coincidental. No animals were harmed in the composition of this e-mail.
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Re: bar ends
Postby silentbutdeadly » Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:46 am
However, now the bar ends angle slightly outwards and the veg is much more likely to catch in the end or across my fingers (wasn't a real problem on the flat bar).
This problem will soon be solved by yet another Carnegie bar. This time a -ve riser that will be fitted to a new cross commuter. The bar end grips will be fitted to this bike and the Anthem will get a new pair of plain Ergon GS1 grips.
Fashionable...
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Re: bar ends
Postby reags » Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:32 am
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Re: bar ends
Postby Bentnose » Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:29 pm
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Re: bar ends
Postby Nobody » Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:46 pm
Wide "wing bars" used for all-mountain etc are angled all wrong to take bar ends.
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Re: bar ends
Postby jbchybridrider » Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:59 pm
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Re: bar ends
Postby Bentnose » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:31 pm
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Postby toolonglegs » Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:18 am
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Re: bar ends
Postby aeroslave » Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:42 am
Personal Preferences. Period. Case closed.
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Re: bar ends
Postby Bentnose » Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:47 am
Whereabouts did you race Toolonlegs? As far as I remember in Victoria, up until the year 2000 there were less singletrack and the challenge quite often came more from the terrain itself being quite severe, eg. bigs ruts or very rough, were you had to pick your lines carefully. These days I find the tracks tend to be narrower with fairly groomed trails specifically built for MTB's, although I don't think they improved the racing. I know racing with the Geelong mountain bike club, before they started racing at Ballan and got ready access to the You Yangs to build tracks, a lot of their races were on fire road pretty much exclusively, bar ends were the order of the day.toolonglegs wrote:How old are we talking here?... All the race tracks I remember from the nineties where much tighter and gnarlier than anything I see today ( or when I left oz in 2008.
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Postby toolonglegs » Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:55 am
On the bar ends I never realized how much traction they gave you until I started torquing on the cx bike with the hoods in a similar manner, only way to get up the steep stuff with 30 mm tyres as standing up you loose all traction. You can ride Mtb's in cyclocross but bar ends are banned.
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