Bar ends yay or nay?

[ThePrivateer]

There were some quite nasty looking ones, I have to say - e.g. the long ones with an almost 90 degree curve. The more adventurous riders mount them pointed towards them, for a more upright riding position

 

[retrobiker273891]

There were some quite nasty looking ones, I have to say - e.g. the long ones with an almost 90 degree curve. The more adventurous riders mount them pointed towards them, for a more upright riding position

The ones not bothered about rib impacts?

 

[retrobiker273891]

agree 100% - they really do massively improve the range of available had positions on narrow flat bars. Work better on the road TBH than proper MTB stuff. The ones with a slight but not pronounced curve at tbe ends are my favourite style:

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Call me unfashionable but I also think they enhance the look of those sorts of cockpits- on riser bars they look terrible though

These are the ones I have gone with mostly due to circumstance of what was offered to me but, having used the big L ones in the old days I do seem to recall that beyond the curve was not used that much and would mainly just grab at the angle so the extra metal was mostly redundant. These ones seem to offer the ideal of not too short and not too long.