Bryan91 wrote:
I'm not quite seeing this yet...
Even pro's that have stuck with sub 9" bars for years are now finally stepping up to 9"-9.25" bars (with spacers and top loads) and most of them are 5'10"-ish.
Not seeing it either. People just love to think what they run is perfection and call anything different/newer a trend. I ran 8.25s for years and just thought anything bigger was pointless and would feel horrible without ever giving them a chance. Then, after a pretty bad back injury in work, I had to start changing things so I wasn't in agony. Went up to 9.25s and all of the pain went away but then, I started noticing other benefits, like how much easier it is to get up over a nose manny and how much easier tailwhips became. There are, of course, disadvantages; it's a little harder to "pop" a hop and little things like that but within a week of changing over, I was riding the same as I was on the 8.25s.
In short, I think big bars are here to stay, there's too many advantages to them and very few disadvantages.
I'm hoping the next trend to go out is freecoasters, as strange as that may seem, given I've been on a coaster from day one. People just don't seem to know how to maintain or use them and would be so much better served by a cassette. Most people I know use them like a cassette and bitch-crank literally everything.
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