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Morning All
I'm asking as I have a pair of 680mm carbon low risers in the shed that came off my FS when I went to 711mm which I was thinking of replacing the flat 670mm on my HT 29er with.
It seems that a lot of 29er HT came with flat bars so is there a reason or just trend?
Low rise EC70's on my highball.
The idea is that flat bars on a 29er HT keep your weight/c-of-g low and forward for climbing and fast XC riding.
The front end tends to be higher so no need for rise on the bars. I put wide low risers on my 29er when new as that was what I was used to, but swapped them with flats which have plenty of backsweep and feels much better now.
I use low rise Monkeybars on my SIR.9. Didn't get on with any of the flats I tried, even the Niner ones. They seemed too stiff.
Low rise Race Face Respond bars on my Yelli with 140mm forks and slammed 50mm stem. Lovely set-up. Suits me well!
The front end tends to be higher so no need for rise on the bars.
I had wondered if soemthing like this was the case. The bike came with two 10mm spacers under the stem (90mm 0 rise) so maybe if I took them out that would counter act the rise?
I do find the ali bars a bit on the unforgiving side and it seems a shame to have the carbons sat doing nothing.
Give it a try, velomanic has it right as far as I believe.
I cut the steerer tube too short on my el mariachi rigid forks so I made up for it with 40mm rise bars, it rides great.
I've got flats on mine, all 736mm of them with a 70mm zero rise stem. I likes it, but feel free to try what you like
I have raceface evolve low rise bars with a flipped stem (bike came flipped as standard), i have reduced it to a 5mm spacer underneath on my 29er.