What Handlebar Width Do The Pros Use? EWS Practice Tweed Valley 

Lmao

Genius! Thanks mate!

Totally agree!

Not all those are right. Murray is 750 grip end to grip end and mentions he has the actual bars cut to 740. Rude has it cut to 750 but his measurement with grips is 757mm.

@@alexh.4068 I was really wrong. What are these grip ends called?

@@Tiunov_Evgeniy The ones Murray is running? Pinky guards, look like ones made by LoamLab call Counterpunch. Not sure there might be others making the same. I'm no pro racer but they would probably cause me more harm than good lol.

this.

@@bimfred doesn't matter

shoulder width perhaps more relevant. I can’t understand how, if Isabeau and Jack Moir were asked to do a push-up, their hands would be about a foot apart. But they ride the same handlebar width.

The shoulder width would make more sense but ok

He has it cut to 750mm.

@@alexh.4068 thanks mate

Probably just what they’re comfortable riding

@@bentyler5704 i think what @Lynx G is after ,what the frame size the manufacturer specs for frame sizes are, to the height of person , to see if they actually ride either larger or smaller frames then what manufacturers specs are advising for your specific height

I'm down to 500. Took getting used to, but now I'm slicing up trails too narrow for the wide bar enthusiasts.

@@Sidowse I don't understand it either, to me 750mm feels already way to wide. I gues the racing and strava guys are taking over the industry

But what size shoe do you wear?

Matt Damon 😅

Only out of curiosity, not because its useful, though.

Obviously

its more likely to catch a tree…silly idea

Its not so much Jack's height, though. Last year he was on a tiny frame with ridiculous low reach and still used that kinda bar width if I'm not mistaken. What I'm saying is, if your bike is long you can get away with that width. The shorter it is, the more width you need to stow away those arms in order for them to function properly.

@@Ganiscol Hmm, I’m not convinced that because the ‘effective reach’ is the same for them that bar width is suddenly irrelevant. Look at the women on 760mm bars, couldn’t they easily be more comfortable on 700mm? Just consider the breadth of Jack compared to her. His shoulders alone are probably 1.5X wider than those of Isabeau’s. So, assuming the same ‘effective reach’ for them, the levers, his arms starting 20cms further apart, above the bars are at hugely different angles to hers. This is compounded by the ‘amount of Jack’ that there is leveraging those same bars from above and from the side. Jack’s greater mass is positioned far higher from the fixed point of the grips. Clearly I am no physicist but, it just don’t add up to me!

@@Ganiscol Quick thought experiment: do you think, if you asked Isabeau and Jack to do a regular press-up on the ground, that they would automatically place their hands in the same position?

@@bimfred They would probably be in the same position in proportion to their shoulder width, so her arms would not be as far apart. Also she is placing more weight on the front of the bike and has less flex in her arms to absorb hits.

Its almost as if height has literally nothing to do with bar width!

Yes. if you ride with your hands closer to the inner edges of your grips anyway then its effectively shorter. Its about mechanical leverage and where you're gripping.

@@goatsplitter awesome.

i wouldn’t do it…i reckon they are a sure way of catching a tree….we need the mtnbike equivalent of barkbusters

Nope, they wouldn't. Wider bars are bad - body comes in extremely bad unhealthy position, putting huge strain on shoulders before all, and then on elbows and hand wrists as well, also some additional stress on trapezius muscles. Also with wider bars you have *less* control over the bike's handling believe it or not, and cannot utilize as much many muscles due to bad position. Even these 700-760 widths are huge, but for shorter Enduro racing they are OK at speeds, but anything wider than that would be more of a downside.

@@NiohNiohYT Are you from the past?

I'm a bit taller than Jack Moir and arrived at 765-775 two years ago, cutting down from 800. Bikes have gotten longer and wider bars are no good with that.

Im 6’ 1” and feel like 140 is wide. 150 with grips.

think almost everybody wears gloves, no?

@@myloraffaele-hamar certainly my preference to wear gloves, but I see a lot of bare hands on Pink Bike

Its a matter of sweaty hands or not. If you sweat much, no gloves is a no go because you wont be able to hold on. But there are actually races where gloves is a protective requirement. And that is also the secondary reason for me: Palm protection in case I hit the deck in a spot that will rub off the skin from your palms...

@@Ganiscol having introduced my knuckles to a number trees while riding, I would think they should all be wearing gloves 😂🤣

Yeah, every pro, amateur, and hobby MTB rider knowing that wider bars feel more stable as soon as they try them is wrong, right? 1980 is calling you back..

@@OktaFierce Nope, its less stable to go too wide. Wider is more stable but to a certain point (like these enduro racers use, arguably thats slightly too wide too for many of them). But people like fashion, it looks cool to them despite it being objectively inferior, and they run such bars that creates health issues and is less stable and less comfortable. Common sense and mind are calling you back

@@OktaFierce Wide bars are reducing your fore-aft range of motion, putting your wrist and elbows to very extreme positions. They are more stabile but trade off is your long term health.

To be fair, many of the taller riders, including Jack Moir, prefer 800+ bars when at home or riding DH, but choose to use narrower 760-770 bars on their race bike because EWS courses tend to be narrow (this being one of the better examples).

Depends how tall you are too , I'm at 770 mainly due to just clipping trees at 780 when I got tired