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[sevenfourate]

720mm wide riser bars replace the stock 660mm (Too narrow for me) flat bars on the Carrera Subway. Seat height and seat angle nailed , lock on grips and decent bar ends on. And a final bit of checking / lubing of parts before I then adjusted and set gear-lever angles / position.

Looks like the inaugural ride is tomorrow then 😎

 

[sevenfourate]

Test ride successful 🙏 Rode as well as could be expected for a £300 all-in bike…..👍 Plenty good enough for the lesser rides……

Cycling Emporium now looking clogged. As is the overflow shed 🤷‍♂️

 

[Windle]

Test ride successful 🙏 Rode as well as could be expected for a £300 all-in bike…..👍 Plenty good enough for the lesser rides……

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Cycling Emporium now looking clogged. As is the overflow shed 🤷‍♂️

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Nah, there's room for more in there.... you just need to dismantle some of them or hang them up.

 

[sevenfourate]

Bought a pair of: Pirelli Scorpion XC H MTB Tyre in Tan (29 x 2.2) for the Trek Marlin 7.

The blurb says: “Designed for hardpack XC and Marathon courses: the best trade-off between speed and grip.

Low profile and compact tread pattern for riding quickly and confidently over hardpack terrain”.

So I’m hoping that means they’ll be more suited to: and last longer on the terrain I ride. [Never really mud, often stone / stone base paths and firmer soil terrains]. And of course the tarmac I ride on - and roads etc I use to join-up the lanes we ride…..

We’ll see soon enough !

 

[Windle]

Bought a pair of: Pirelli Scorpion XC H MTB Tyre in Tan (29 x 2.2) for the Trek Marlin 7.

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The blurb says: “Designed for hardpack XC and Marathon courses: the best trade-off between speed and grip.

Low profile and compact tread pattern for riding quickly and confidently over hardpack terrain”.

So I’m hoping that means they’ll be more suited to: and last longer on the terrain I ride. [Never really mud, often stone / stone base paths and firmer soil terrains]. And of course the tarmac I ride on - and roads etc I use to join-up the lanes we ride…..

We’ll see soon enough !

I'd be interested to know how these perform as mine's due some new tyres, I bought some tubeless valves for it last year but never got round to replacing the tyres as they're not too bad.

 

[Gunk]

Test ride successful 🙏 Rode as well as could be expected for a £300 all-in bike…..👍 Plenty good enough for the lesser rides……

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Cycling Emporium now looking clogged. As is the overflow shed 🤷‍♂️

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This is clogged!

 

[sevenfourate]

This is clogged!

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Er…..appears I have much to learn 🤣

 

[sevenfourate]

I'd be interested to know how these perform as mine's due some new tyres, I bought some tubeless valves for it last year but never got round to replacing the tyres as they're not too bad.

I’ll keep in touch for sure ! So many (Complicated…..unneeded ?) options for the amateur mud-thumper 🤷‍♂️

 

[ColinJ]

720mm wide riser bars replace the stock 660mm (Too narrow for me) flat bars on the Carrera Subway.

Blimey... I just checked my MTB - the handlebar is only 550 mm, and that feels fine to me!

My road bike bars are 420 and 440 mm and they feel good.

My CX bike's handlebar is 460 mm and that felt strangely big when I first rode the bike though I did get used to it.

720 mm sounds HUGE!!!

 

[slow horse]

I notice people using bike stands, which is making me feel that I'm abusive towards my bikes by leaning them against the wall or each other.

 

[sevenfourate]

Blimey... I just checked my MTB - the handlebar is only 550 mm, and that feels fine to me!

My road bike bars are 420 and 440 mm and they feel good.

My CX bike's handlebar is 460 mm and that felt strangely big when I first rode the bike though I did get used to it.

720 mm sounds HUGE!!!

I'm a big guy. They just feel more comfortable.

Alot of modern.......and my MTB: is 780mm. From dead standard.

720mm isn't off the charts. I mean its readily available - so they must sell !

 

[sevenfourate]

I notice people using bike stands, which is making me feel that I'm abusive towards my bikes by leaning them against the wall or each other.

Each to their own. But yes dedicated stand user here

 

[ColinJ]

I'm a big guy. They just feel more comfortable.

I used to be "big"! One of the things that I say a lot is that "I used to be tall". 50 years ago, being 1.86 m/6' 1" in height, I was taller than nearly everyone that I met. These days that is the average height of young men in the Netherlands!! On a particular CycleChat forum ride 3 or 4 of the riders towered over me by 10+ cm/4+ inches!

Alot of modern.......and my MTB: is 780mm. From dead standard.

720mm isn't off the charts. I mean its readily available - so they must sell !

I bought my bike 23 years ago. Bars were much narrower then! I can imagine that wide bars feel much less twitchy, but I would worry about catching them on trees and bushes on narrow singletrack.

 

[sevenfourate]

I used to be "big"! One of the things that I say a lot is that "I used to be tall". 50 years ago, being 1.86 m/6' 1" in height, I was taller than nearly everyone that I met. These days that is the average height of young men in the Netherlands!! On a particular CycleChat forum ride 3 or 4 of the riders towered over me by 10+ cm/4+ inches!


I bought my bike 23 years ago. Bars were much narrower then! I can imagine that wide bars feel much less twitchy, but I would worry about catching them on trees and bushes on narrow singletrack.

I'm '6'2, 16 odd stone and a solid (But getting more wobbly ) build Colin. And yes - thats perhaps nothing really too unusual in the modern age. In the States i certainly get towered over frequently. They are a big race of people imo ! (**And i don't mean the morbidly obese ones).

You're right. They are fairly wide bars at select times. Theres a sign on the path near me with twin uprights. I've never hit or brushed it. But i still flinch everytime i pass underneath. I guess the tracks i ride are more open than 'yours' (?). The width hasn't caused me real issues of any sort. Yet !!! And the control / comfort has increased 3 fold. For me

 

[ColinJ]

Most of the bridleways round here are also clear and wide but I have done forest trails elsewhere which I found tricky even with the narrow bars.

I just did a search though and it appears that almost everybody these days uses wider bars.

I am going up to Scotland in a few days time and my cousin has 3 different MTBs which he said that I can borrow. I bet at least one of them (if not all of them) has wide bars. It will be interesting to see what I think.

I am also curious about dropper posts. They make a lot of sense to me but I haven't tried them either. I don't know if any of the bikes has one but if available I will try it out.