Show me your weird and wonderful handlebars

I've been having some issues with the reach on my 29er. So rather than get a shorter stem I've bought some On-One OG bars from Planet X. These have 25° backsweep and 6° upsweep. I've not actually tried them yet but it will interesting to compare against the zero rise flat handlebars I had previously.

I guess these would be called comfort handlebars. We shall see how true that is but it made wonder what different types of bars people use. The high saddle relative to the stem and bars on retro bikes definitely cause me problems as I get older and it made me wonder what, if anything, people tend to do about it.

Me too. I'll end up converting old Lava Dome to some of these:
https://bicyclist.cc/product/nitto-b802-aa-riser-bar/Here's what they look like on my Pahoehoe
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/kona-pahoehoe-1998-mid-season.433251/I'll possibly play around with the angle, and controls need adjustment still. I reckon with the big sweep, as your hands point forwards, you want the controls much further inboard...

My oldest 2 bikes are too small for me, so saddle height is daft, when paired with retro bar and long stem... This helps!

Cheers, I like those, better width too. The Planet X ones are perhaps a bit narrow. I did a 15 mile ride with them earlier in the week. They're better than the flat bars but they need tweaking.

Carbon Cinelli Ram

same bar propping up my Bulgarian paratrooper helmet just before mounting; weird enough combination?

ahhh, holy thread resurrection! it seems reasonable to bring this thread back, because I just found it and I also really like strange/alt/whatever handlebars. they just have to be a bit different. hopefully the pics will be useful for you.

so first of all, the On-One OG (V1) on my Kona Unit. the only con is the moderate width at 680mm. I find them very comfortable shape-wise, also they are the most flexible among the owned bars of mine. I tried the V2 for a short time, but found that they were a step back, since neither the shape nor the quality were as good as the V1.




a pair of Ritchey's Kyote bars on my 45650B in silver, cut down to 720mm


comparing the OG and the Kyote (yes, I have two pairs of the Kyote, I like them a bit stiffer than the OGs and funnily wide at the uncut 800mm)


Kyote on my Author Ronin, cut to 700mm, replacing the original dropbar.


Salsa Bend Deluxe 17, cut to 700mm (new - secondhand - addition to the collection)


comparing with the OG