Narrow bars

[paredown]

Originally Posted by rothwem

Mountain bikes have different steering geometry though—a lot more trail usually, which makes steering a lot heavier. Wide bars give leverage to steer against it.

This is part of the reason why I think bikes like the Chamois Hanger with drops and tons of trail are silly and why road bikes with risers are also silly. The bars correspond with the steering setup, flipping it around just doesn’t make sense.

I've often thought this--and the fact that a lot of trail riding is at slower speeds where you are actually having to 'steer' the bike around obstacles and such; it's not just the intuitive lean and point of road bike riding.

(My personal theory is that we are seeing a course correction--wider bars started getting popular on road bikes because people/shops were used to mountain bike setups--and now we're on our way back to narrow and aero. )