Why Use Bar Ends On Mountain Bike

When your hands are on the bar ends the bike is free wheeling.

Why use bar ends on mountain bike. Paparazzo mar 11 15 at 0 15 dotjoe your comment contains a link which is now dead april 2016 and without it your comment makes little sense. Both bars have a section between the stem and the bar ends to put your hands. Consider the geometry of a flat bar and longer bar ends compared to a roadie drop bar. Bar ends don t typically have brake handles.

I still use bar ends. Even cyclocross event that allow mountain bikes do not allow bar ends. For this reason alone bar ends should be restricted to climbing or cruising. Now if you were to watch me on my mountain bike you ll notice that i ve got bar ends and that i use them a lot.

Want them and safe in a group ride are not the same. Bar ends were standard issue for mountain bikes throughout the eighties and early nineties when 71 degree head angles were the norm 640mm flat bars were mega wide and cantilever brakes were. Great for climbing and multi hand positions. Maybe too many mtn bikers have low self esteem and don t want a bike that looks like a restaurant worker s commuter bike with the bar ends pointed straight up.

Bar ends come in many different styles. Bar ends why am i using them on my mountain bike. Always keep two hands on the handlebars when riding downhill and remember the rule two up and two down. Bar ends can t help to stop a bike in motion.

Their purpose was two fold allowing users multiple hand positions but ultimately bar ends were designed to give riders increased leverage with very narrow flat xc bars. Bar ends were predominately used in the 90 s before riser bars became popular. I wanted to install drop bar style bar ends on my mountain bike handlebars for a 40 mile mountain bike race i have coming up i decided to video the process. Who knows why they have fallen out of favor.