Bar bend recommendations?
Posted: 09:00 pm Jul 24 2015
Last night I had a spectacular loop-out at the top of a really tough hill and wiped out my bars on my '89 E1. I'd like to take this opportunity to upgrade to some 1 1/8" "Fatbar"-style bars. I'm thinking that I'll go with Renthal Fatbars because last time I checked they were made in England and not Taiwan or China and those sort of things matter to me. I'm pretty new to "late-model" dirt bikes and I don't really have enough experience with different bar bends to know what I like and what I don't.
The bars that were on the bike were Pro-Taper 7/8" aluminum bars with a CR-High bend. I had cut them down for woods riding and everything felt good to me (with the caveat that I don't have anything to compare it to). I understand that the Fatbar adapters serve as risers so a given bar bend will be higher with the adapters. Maybe CR-Low would come close to equaling the 7/8" CR-High?
I'm 5'7" and a fit 140#. Does anyone have any recommendations as to a bar bend? I know that there's a few that already come somewhat narrow for woods riding, which is what I do. I'd just hate to plunk down the cash for a set of bars that I didn't like, even though I probably wouldn't even know that I didn't like them at this point. You don't know what you don't know, you know?
Any tips are appreciated. Thanks.
The bars that were on the bike were Pro-Taper 7/8" aluminum bars with a CR-High bend. I had cut them down for woods riding and everything felt good to me (with the caveat that I don't have anything to compare it to). I understand that the Fatbar adapters serve as risers so a given bar bend will be higher with the adapters. Maybe CR-Low would come close to equaling the 7/8" CR-High?
I'm 5'7" and a fit 140#. Does anyone have any recommendations as to a bar bend? I know that there's a few that already come somewhat narrow for woods riding, which is what I do. I'd just hate to plunk down the cash for a set of bars that I didn't like, even though I probably wouldn't even know that I didn't like them at this point. You don't know what you don't know, you know?

Any tips are appreciated. Thanks.