Vintage handlebars- how wide?

HighPlainsSquid
Edited Date/Time 4/29/2020 10:32am
The picture of Marty Smith in the other thread got me hunting on YouTube and I'm watching some stuff from the mid-70's. Everyone's handlebars look WIDE. When they're coming at you, they look like they're 35" wide!!!

I was riding then, but on an XR75 and then an RM 125... I don't remember my bars being all that wide. Were they??

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ga_pike 4/28/2020 9:44am
4/28/2020 9:44am
Bar width directly correlated to the size of your balls. The bigger your balls, the wider your bars. Might explain a few things.



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Zeke27G 4/28/2020 4:18pm
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For vintage MX, I prefer Renthal’s Vintage/Desert 7/8” bend, they’re 34” wide.

I have a dozen or more pairs of vintage handlebars from Inter-Am, Torsten Hallman, K&N, Answer and etc. They’re all between 33”-36” wide.

Honestly I wish modern MX bars were wider!
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Gworm 4/29/2020 10:28am
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They didn’t have power steering back then and they needed the extra leverage.
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Fog 25 4/29/2020 10:30am
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They just look wide because of the height 👌

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