Wide Drop Bars

The spot where you put your hands for braking measures out at around 48cm.

Wide drop bars. Except instead of your hand positions going up and down euro bar hand positions go forward and back. Choose the 55 or 60 option for drop. On average drop bars are around 20 cm narrower than flat bars. Drops can fit through more narrow spots in traffic standard drop bars measure around 40 46 cm in width.

Enve g series carbon gravel bars. The walmer features 7 backsweep on the tops both to feel like a regular mountain bike bar up top to limit the extra reach to the drops and compact 60mm reach 110mm drop in those flared drops. This difference comes in handy if you spend a lot of time weaving through tight traffic while commuting in a busy city. 46 50 55 and 60cm wide at the hoods or 61 65 70 or 75cm at the drops.

List of gravel bars and flared drop bars crust shaka bar wide gravel bars. That s why we keep it 26 0. The handlebar grips are two out of five attachment points between your body and the bike and arguably they re also. Firstly it s easier to replace and maintain your cables because you can do so.

The majority of drop bars are made from either aluminum or carbon with the latter typically being lighter but also more expensive. Spank flare 25 vibrocore drop bar. The 46 is super comfortable for endurance road riding. The brake levers are just better.

Put cross levers on the flats and you basically have a shreddy flat bar. If the bars are at the right height for a dirt drop above the saddle you can ride comfortably in the drops. One good benefit of trekking handlebars over drop bars is that the side hand position gives you alot of leverage when climbing with a heavy load. There are parts of your bike that you don t want to be stiff.

9 reasons to drop the drop bars. Salsa cowchipper alloy gravel bar. With the 8 degree upsweep 15 degree back sweep and 115mm drop there is built in pre loaded sus. Our super wide drop bar is available in four widths.

Typical flat bars measure 58 60 cm wide. Handlebars are one of them. The 46 and 50cm options are perfect flared dirt drop bars for gravel grinding. Width can range from 36cm to 44cm the general rule being that your drop bars width should be approximately equal to the width of your shoulders.

Spank industries wing 12 vibrocore. Euro touring bars work similarly to drop bars. The versions in these pictures are 55cm wide. The walmer 46 bar is 610mm wide overall outside to outside while the walmer 60 bar is a whopping 750mm outside.