Handlebar width for retro

[Paul Eggleton]

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I'm currently running 780mm on my Zesty and the c.550mm I've got on my retro bikes feels just wrong now. What was the widest bars went BITD??

I could obviously get some wider ones, but would be interested to hear how others get on switching between modern and retro - if you do!!

 

[Dick Scruttock]

780's?! As Guy Martin said do you not look like a gnat on a flys ball sack ricing the zesty? I do riding my HD140, Jams (theredchili) riders bars longer than he is tall ha ha LOL

 

[Paul Eggleton]

Lol, I probably do but it feels so right!!! Guilty pleasure!

 

[Chopper the ex Copper]

Jeez, back in the day the narrower the better. T'was a common passtime to trim ones tiller down to allow the speed freaks to nip through gaps between trees, traffic and bollards etc. OK, it felt like you were steering with a pair of mole grips, but that's how we rolled.

 

[bren]

Most bars I bought BITD were around 580 but myself and all my mates used to fit them up with everything you needed pushed right up to the bulge , then trimmed off the excess. Most of mine ended up around 540-550 as I ran thumbies, but mates went narrower with their STI's

 

[feetabix]

Ha!......I've a trimmed pair of bars on a mahoosive stem on my fisher, my brake levers almost touch!....it feels almost dangerous, but I look good, and that's the main thing!.....

 

[Pyro Tim]

I measured my old ones the other day. 48 cm

 

[FluffyChicken]

580/560 where the standard retro-bar widths (22 to 23 inch) uncut (or in crushed by bar ends)

 

[dyna-ti]

780mm :shock: :shock: i could tape on a set of stepladders i have and they'd still be shorter than that.
Were you in an accident at birth and its left you with unfeasibly wide shoulders :shock:

 

[merckx]

600 is as wide as they got from my memory