Riser bars - Timeline - when and who?

[mikee]

steel chrome "speedway" bars ,with flats on the brace to fit them through
the stem clamp bolt bit

about 1973

or renthalls with a coke can shim

 

[elite504]

Dont you mean 'when did risers make a come back?' early MTB style bikes had risers and the clunkers cut down motorbike parts

Aye. .
And for the renaisance, it has to be 94/95 Azonic. . .
I have an old skool pair here somewhere. . . must dig em out for the bay. . . long low, flat bars and ends. . thats the way, until the back can take it nore more, capt'n,