Riser Bars And Flats

[mr manx man]

i cant see any difference between riser bars and flat bars are they the same or are they differnt

if they are differnt how and in what way are they differnt.

[Dan6061]

Riser bars have rise.

And flat bars....don't.

[Ross Gardner]

Riser bars have rise.

And flat bars....don't.

yeah, what else did you think

[Dan6061]

yeah, what else did you think

He asked what was the difference. So I told him. It was a stupid question.

That's kind of self explanitory.

[Will Arnold]

He asked what was the difference. So I told him. It was a stupid question.

That's kind of self explanitory.

gawk aimed that at the topic starter

[MikeCottTrials]

Talk about a stupid question

[Ash-Kennard]

flatbars

risers

ffs people, if you tell them once then they wont ask again.

[Hobnobs]

haha, you say they like they are some sort of tribal cult who are just learning what electricity is

[Dan6061]

gawk aimed that at the topic starter

:$ Didn't notice that.

Sorry 'Gawk'

[Deonn h]

I find risers alot easyer to bunnyhop , lift the front end up ect.

[Ross Gardner]

yeah no probs bud

[downhill_rob2@hotmail.com]

i cant see any difference between riser bars and flat bars are they the same or are they differnt

if they are differnt how and in what way are they differnt.

How stupid can you get?

[chris mac]

hello, well basically ive found that risers are alot better because i rely on the fact that i can hop alot higher. but flat bars make staying on the back wheel alot easier. so they cind of cancel themselves out realy.

[M3LLON_t-mag]

eh use your head mate there is only a little hint in the name i think

risers = rise

flat = flat

if im wrong post back but im pretty sure that i have given an accurate description

[am4zin]

Ok the original question is a bit daft, but my bars are try-all 'yourself replicas' (something like that), and I thought that they were flat bars, even though they're not literally just a straight piece of tubing.

If you look at the two pictures that were posted, yeah I can name which one is flat and which one is the riser bar, but if you look at the geometry of those two, the ends where you'll put your grips onto looks to be about the same vertical distance above the stem clamp area, and even the angle that the grips would make relative to the middle of the bars looks the same, so geometry wise, what's the difference?

[MaXsteri]

Goggle + Copy and paste =

Riser bars have better sweep (how far a bar angles back, when looking at it from the saddle) and rise (how much the bar is angled up from the ground) than flat bars. This means more comfort because riser bars can be more subtly adjusted to fit you by rotating them. No matter where you put flat bars with shims or stems, you just can't fine-tune the geometry as well.

Also risers are usually wider, although this doesn't really apply to trials specific bars