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FireAnthem Little Ring Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 661 Location: Gastonia Area Joined: 01/26/10	Bar/stem question 12/16/13 at 7:08pm	Print Post
	I'm looking at bar/stem setups and I have a question that's probably common sense: what would be the difference between switching to a flat bar, or taking one spacer out from under the stem and using a regular riser bar? Aren't both effectively lowering your position? Aren't the sweep available in the same dimensions, the flat bar just has no rise? I guess I'm basically asking if you would take out any spacers before opting for a flat bar? Or is the flat bar mainly for racer bois that already have the stem slammed?

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Dirkdee Coaster Bike Offline Posts: 207 Joined: 11/10/04	Re: Bar/stem question Reply #1 - 12/16/13 at 8:58pm	Print Post
	If you ride clipped in on a carbon hardtail you use a flat bar, dems the rulz... don't mess with it. It has nothing to do with raising or lowering the riding position.

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DursRemote Coaster Bike Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 189 Location: Charlotte Joined: 09/05/12	Re: Bar/stem question Reply #2 - 12/16/13 at 9:09pm	Print Post
	Hey, don't forget hipsters!

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jonesn Big Ring Offline Posts: 1112 Location: South Central Charlotte USA Joined: 03/16/11	Re: Bar/stem question Reply #3 - 12/16/13 at 10:36pm	Print Post
	it must be hip to be just an idiot?

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FireAnthem Little Ring Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 661 Location: Gastonia Area Joined: 01/26/10	Re: Bar/stem question Reply #4 - 12/17/13 at 5:29am	Print Post
	well that escalated quickly

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Yellowduck Big Ring Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 1537 Location: Concord Joined: 04/28/10	Re: Bar/stem question Reply #5 - 12/18/13 at 1:43pm	Print Post
	FireAnthem wrote on 12/17/13 at 5:29am: well that escalated quickly No doubt. You got a lot of helpful replies. Go ahead and drop the stem. The advantage of the flat bar is to get lower than your stem combo will go. I run flat bars on all my bikes. The 2 reasons are to get the bars lower (on my niner I have got the stem flipped upside down and a flat bar on it) and because I have found a bar with the sweep, length and rise I like that happens to be flat.

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Dirkdee Coaster Bike Offline Posts: 207 Joined: 11/10/04	Re: Bar/stem question Reply #6 - 12/18/13 at 5:47pm	Print Post
	Also required if you have a 29er but are under 6'

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FireAnthem Little Ring Offline Work Ride Tarheel Trailblazers Posts: 661 Location: Gastonia Area Joined: 01/26/10	Re: Bar/stem question Reply #7 - 12/19/13 at 4:38am	Print Post
	thanks for all the replies, helpful or not Ive got a spacer under the stem ill drop first and see how it goes. Ive just always ridden a riser bar, and i occasionally get hotspots on the outter edges of my palms and ive read that flat bars seemed to help some people lessen that and put the wrists in a more comfortable position. But i guess technically that could be solved with a different sweep/rise bar?
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