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Geir Anders Ryb
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I'm researching the history of the mountain bike handlebar, and wonder when the first flat handlebar
turned up on mountain bikes. It seems like the first mountain bikes all had wide riser bars.
Somewhere around the end of the '80s the flat bars arrived in mountain bike competitions, as far as
I understand.
Today, more mountain bikers - not only the freeriding kind - seem to avoid the flat-out racing
position, returning to the more comfortable rise, sweep and width of the riser bars. One of the few
«returns to the roots» in the history of mountain bike equipment?
Anyway: Who introduced the flat handlebar concept to the mountain bike? Why? And when?
Geir Anders Rybakken Ørslien, Norway terrengsykkel.no
- - - http://terrengsykkel.no - the leading Norwegian mountain bike magazine Check out our travel
reports and photos here: http://terrengsykkel.no/section.php?n=Utflukt
* Text in norwegian only, sorry about that ;-) *
turned up on mountain bikes. It seems like the first mountain bikes all had wide riser bars.
Somewhere around the end of the '80s the flat bars arrived in mountain bike competitions, as far as
I understand.
Today, more mountain bikers - not only the freeriding kind - seem to avoid the flat-out racing
position, returning to the more comfortable rise, sweep and width of the riser bars. One of the few
«returns to the roots» in the history of mountain bike equipment?
Anyway: Who introduced the flat handlebar concept to the mountain bike? Why? And when?
Geir Anders Rybakken Ørslien, Norway terrengsykkel.no
- - - http://terrengsykkel.no - the leading Norwegian mountain bike magazine Check out our travel
reports and photos here: http://terrengsykkel.no/section.php?n=Utflukt
* Text in norwegian only, sorry about that ;-) *