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Narrow bars for the old lady

Team Pigeon

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As the top says, looking to change the old lady's bars with narrower ones. Looking for options, seeing what people have done.

I like the skinz bars with the built in riser, be nice to de-clutter the riser and clamp set-up.
 

backcountryislife

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sawzall.


Seriously, narrow bars are easy, just cut them down.


FYI, if you swap, I've found that moto bars have a wider "riser" portion, so you're forced to tun them wider than stock.

If you want to narrow stock bars significantly, you can relocate the controls, get a racer throttle block, and you'll be able to go WAY in. With the stock throttle you can go a little narrower, then you can hog out the inside of the block to allow for the downcurve... then you have to stop.

on a cat, for narrow I feel the stock bars are best.

If you needed to go narrower & weren't willing to do a racer block, a pair of straight bars would allow for more yet, but now you've got a system with ZERO give (like the mentally challenged engineers gave the 2012) which will cause issues of it's own.
 
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