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Bars way too tall!!
- Thread starter jakey-boy
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You heard me!
OK, went riding yesterday & paid a bit more attention to the height.
They are about hip height, meang my forarms do bend down slightly.
I would be comfortable with them level, but would be concerned about the steering post in a rollover.
Forgot ditch bangers ride mnt sleds to, when you learn how to ride in the mnts with that mnt sled you will understand what we are saying by bars all the way down.
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The "Schooled" video comes out and now everyone thinks their Chris Burandt.
Never had a riser on any sled, anytime I climb on someone's sled that does have a riser I instantly feel like I am fighting it. Only makes sense to have the bars down so you can get your center of gravity down and use your body to roll the sled rather then up like some chopper and fighting the sled with your arms fully extended. I'm really not here to teach all of you how to ride or argue with you about what you think you know. Just saying cat should do something with the bars before production because they are too tall. It's much easier to add a riser for additional height then to replace the entire steering post to get them lower.
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for open mountain riding i prefer them lower, for any sort of bump riding, cornice bashing or jumping i prefer them higher and my elbows up to absorb the landing/force of the break through the cornice ect.
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NO Bret Rasmussen is the man, that other guy is just a pup
Bret called, said you're supposed to stop humping his leg....
I keed I keed.
Bret called, said you're supposed to stop humping his leg....
I keed I keed.
us old guys gotta stick together
I can understand why you little fellers would want them lower.
(BTW, you seem like an arrogant little man)
My back will simply last longer if I ride standing straight up without having to lean forward.
If that's wrong, well I content being wrong......little man.
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thats just to funny!!!!!!
thats just to funny!!!!!!
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waiting....waiting....waiting
this should be good...
this should be good...
Actually it's the other way around. Unless you ride with both skis on the ground (in that case, none of this matters) all the time, it's YOUR back that's taking the beating.
We run bars in a position so that we can be standing straight up, and reaching our arms down to the bars. This makes it so when you start to pull the sled over, you're doing it with your weight, not with your arms & back.
With your arms in the position that you mention, you have to beat yourself up to sidehill because you can't simply use leverage.
I could care less about some video, it's just common sense. When I put a new bar setup on my 09, at first it was up higher, and I couldn't believe how much harder it was to pull the sled over, there's no comparison.
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I know im just one of those "stupidflatlanderposerswhorides2xayearbutcouldntpossiblybeagoodrider".....but I agree with BCIL, haven't seen Schooled, prob wont cause hopefully I will spend all my $ on a new poser proclimb(so I look like I know what im doin when I go out west) but thats the only way that makes sense to me. Had adjustable steering post, rode it not quite fully extended and I am 6'3'.
Laws of geometry state... the higher you have your post the closer you are to the sled when trying to throw a side hill and therfore you lose leverage, and one your post creates a bend in your arms you start to lose leverage again and you continue to lose the higher you go....you do look cooler hoping down the trail tho. you have to factor that in.
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