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General Category => Freewheeling => MTB => Topic started by: PhilO on 23 November, 2014, 06:24:50 am

Title: On One swept handlebars (OG)
Post by: PhilO on 23 November, 2014, 06:24:50 am

A tangent from the Fat Bike thread:

Quote from: bumper on 14 November, 2014, 12:10:42 pm

Had a few rides on these now, much better than Mary bars. They're wider with a slightly different angle/sweep back. They come in carbon and aluminium flavours, recommended :thumbsup:

(http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k131/djb1971/cf2ad4a2188c9f3a52e6185fc74cba87.jpg)

A question for the OG bar users if I my?

I have Titec H-bars on one bike (similar sweep to Mary bars), but found that while the sweep made for a very comfortable position, I didn't quiet get on with them for technical MTBing as my hands wound slide forwards/inwards on steep descents. So I'm running Fleegle bars on my main MTB; not quite so comfortable, but my hands stay put (and I can run old-fashioned bar ends)

The OGs seem to lie, sweep-wise, mid-way between the Fleegles and the Marys... Does anybody have experience of using these in steep terrain? Do your hands stay put?

Title: Re: On One swept handlebars (OG)
Post by: PaulF on 23 November, 2014, 07:06:20 am

I'm running Marys on both my mtb's without a  problem. Maybe that I'm not doing such steep stuff as you but no problems with my hands moving.

Not answering your question I know but is it worth looking at your grips before you start changing the bars?

Title: Re: On One swept handlebars (OG)
Post by: PhilO on 23 November, 2014, 08:02:35 am

Well, the RH tended to only move a bit, because the Rohloff shifter would stop it. The left hand, on the other ...er... hand, would keep going until it reached a brake lever. I suppose I could fit a dummy LH gripshift.  :-\

TBF, it was a significant problem only on steep terrain under heavy braking - most noticeably when I investigated the new downhill track at Cwmcarn. Some of the hillsides round here go down at 45 degrees. :-)

Title: Re: On One swept handlebars (OG)
Post by: PaulF on 23 November, 2014, 08:29:07 am

Quote from: PhilO on 23 November, 2014, 08:02:35 am

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TBF, it was a significant problem only on steep terrain under heavy braking - most noticeably when I investigated the new downhill track at Cwmcarn. Some of the hillsides round here go down at 45 degrees. :-)

 OK you win ;D not much round my way that's quite that steep, at least for any distance.

Title: Re: On One swept handlebars (OG)
Post by: PhilO on 03 May, 2015, 05:06:36 pm

Just to wind this up, I finally got around to fitting an OG bar to my bike. Exhaustive testing around the Ebbw Valley and Black Mountains leads me to give it a big  :thumbsup: from me.

Title: Re: On One swept handlebars (OG)
Post by: bumper on 03 May, 2015, 06:31:16 pm

 :thumbsup:

I've got them on both fatbikes. Love the angle they give my wrists, very natural and uber comfy.

Title: Re: On One swept handlebars (OG)
Post by: PhilO on 03 May, 2015, 07:45:37 pm

I find myself contemplating the compressed soot version... :demon:

Title: Re: On One swept handlebars (OG)
Post by: bumper on 03 May, 2015, 07:47:30 pm

wait until they're on offer  ;)