riser bar on answer a tac

[GoldenEraMTB]

For some reason, they go into these stems easier than they come back out. I just ended up sawing two riser bars this weekend to remove them from a couple syncros stems.

Why/how did riser bars become so popular back in the mid to late 90s :roll:

 

[scant]

Why/how did riser bars become so popular back in the mid to late 90s :roll:

take a look at all the 70s clunkers, the breezer, ritchey & lawwill first mountain bikes, they all had more riser style bars than flat style bars.

 

[andrewl]

Why/how did riser bars become so popular back in the mid to late 90s :roll:

Because its easier and much cheaper to make a bar in a selection of rises than a stem.

And in my opinion any stem with more than 5 degrees of rise just looks plain ugly.