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I'd like to know what the flex characteristics are of the Mika Pro Series 1 1/8 bar vs the Renthal Fatbar. I'm lookin for new bars to replace my stock ones but I'd like something more rigid and that gives more feedback. My neighbor has some very lightly used Mikas he will sell me for a good price. But if they aren't anymore rigid than what I have then I'd rather stick with Fatbars or go to a twinwall. I know a lot have said the twinwalls are far more rgid but I read somewhere it's only a 8% difference? Anyway if the Mikas are more rigid than a fatbar, how close would they be to a twinwall? Thanks!
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Just go with a straighter lower bend that has some give. A lower bar is more rigid than a taller bar, so check the bend of what the guy is selling you compared to what you have.
If you want the most give- then you need to use a 7/8 inch aluminum bar. Once you go to 1 1/8 inch even if it is braceless... you are giving up flex when compared to a 7/8 inch handlebar.
Try the Mika, if it's too rigid just cut the crossbar in half and put a sleeve over it to keep it pointing together. Or remove it altogether.
Fat bar
7/8
Mika
Renthal twin wall
I would be interested to know the Yield force (or relative yield force) at the tip of the bar when installed in a solid mount for each of these and how much deflection (inches/mm) they can take before yield.
Down and down to the rear seem to be the most common directions of bent bars I've observed.
I bought a bike with a set of twin-walls on it. Those bars folded like a cooked spaghetti noodle in a tip-over on my 125.
On the other hand I have cartwheeled many times with Pro Taper bars; it takes a hard hit to bend them, but they will bend at the clamp if it's not rubber isolated.
I have an old set of ANSWER branded Pro Taper bars. They seem to be stronger than the more recent Contour and Evo products from Pro Taper.
I don't grip tight enough to care about flex in the bars. I am much more sensitive to bar bend than flex.
"Mongo only care if bars are strong."
Just put my Twinwalls back on without the Cross bar to see if I notice ant differences.
I like the 999 bend of the twinwalls
The twinwalls by not really being a tapered bar, but an actual bar over a bar it always seems to me that it is much more rigid and you can feel the feed back much more pronounced on the twinwalls. The fat bars with out a cross bar still feel that they are way less rigid than either of the braced bars and You would expect so.
I personally like the mika bars and have been running them for a couple years now. I only use the stock kawi 997 bend.
I'm about to try a set of the mika bars in the fat bar style to see how those go.
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