Err":19vhz5ht said:D_XZ":19vhz5ht said:On a flat bar the leverage of your hands is in line with the centre of the stem clamp while on risers it's offset giving greater leverage to the rider. This results in two slightly slower (allowing better fine control) steering and less effort to turn the bars.
Personally I don't think that leverage works too well with roadie style body position set up for efficient pedalling as an XC racer would use but thats just my feeling
Not convinced, need diagram
note the position of the rider at the back as aposed to the position of the rider on top