Showing posts with label bike handlebar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bike handlebar. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Flatbar handlebar Common Sizes

This post is about flatbar handlebar common sizes on commuter/urban/flatbar road bikes.

Flatbar or Riser ?
Flatbar is generally pretty straight.
Riser bar is the V-type shape.
For a commuter/flatbar road bike my preference would be flatbar.
So this post is about Flatbars.  

If you have a flatbar handlebar bike.
And want to buy a new flatbar handlebar.
You probably need to work out 2 main dimensions.

The 2 most important specs seem to be :
Stem size.
Width (across)

Flatbar common Stem sizes :
Importance : I think very important (if you can't adjust the fitting for the handle-stem joint.)      

The 2 common flatbar Stem Sizes :
25.4mm (standard)
or 31.8mm (oversized)

There are other sizes but these are the common 2 sizes
Tip :
If your handlebar in the middle looks 'normal sized', it's probably 25.4mm
If your handlebar looks overly big in the middle, it's probably 31.8mm 

Common flatbar widths (across)
Importance : not so important  (?)

Typical flatbar widths :
600mm ?
580 mm would be pretty small.
620mm gives you a bit more space .
The width can go up to 750mm

Note : Riser bars seem to have much wider lengths, such as 750mm
I have read that bars can come big in order to 'saw to size'