Low bars are stupid. Watch any motocross race, any dirt flat track race, ever. They’ve known riser bars are the way to go for over 60 years. Watch the first guys riding off road on American newsboy bikes with cantilever frames and cruiser bars 40 mph down loose fast fire roads in California. The first production mountain bike was designed by a flat track motorcycle racer and his frame builder in collaboration with a bike shop owner in that same area of Northern California. It had stomach high riser bars. Then Gary Fisher and Tom Ritchey and Otis Guy and Joe Breeze, who had been riding those klunker bikes using cruiser bars for years, foisted flat top tubes and tiller stems and flat bars on us as soon as they went into business, because they were all ROADIES, and thought “you need to get more weight on the front tire.” Why? Cuz they were roadies. Imagine any motocross rider putting the weight of their upper body onto their bars by riding a flat bar with anything like a tiller stem. It’s ridiculous. th-cam.com/video/jhuZk5q0qCs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=eZCXLRtwp_prwlKV
Low bars are stupid. Watch any motocross race, any dirt flat track race, ever. They’ve known riser bars are the way to go for over 60 years. Watch the first guys riding off road on American newsboy bikes with cantilever frames and cruiser bars 40 mph down loose fast fire roads in California.
The first production mountain bike was designed by a flat track motorcycle racer and his frame builder in collaboration with a bike shop owner in that same area of Northern California. It had stomach high riser bars.
Then Gary Fisher and Tom Ritchey and Otis Guy and Joe Breeze, who had been riding those klunker bikes using cruiser bars for years, foisted flat top tubes and tiller stems and flat bars on us as soon as they went into business, because they were all ROADIES, and thought “you need to get more weight on the front tire.” Why? Cuz they were roadies.
Imagine any motocross rider putting the weight of their upper body onto their bars by riding a flat bar with anything like a tiller stem. It’s ridiculous.
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