I’m thinking of making a basebar just slightly wider than my pads. Any idea what the narrowest width permitted is?
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I’m thinking of making a basebar just slightly wider than my pads. Any idea what the narrowest width permitted is?
There is no limit but I doubt that the “slightly wider than my pads” width would be a good idea as an all around base bar for UCI TT races.
Sergio
I don’t compete at a high level, but am subject to UCI rules for TT’s. Most of the local TT’s I do are pretty non-technical, so I really don’t think there would be much issue in terms of handling. The only things that may be a bit tricky are starts and turnarounds. Then again, you see bike courriers around with really narrow MTB bars, so how bad could it be. Most skills are trainable.
you see bike courriers around with really narrow MTB bars
this has been discussed
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I don’t compete at a high level, but am subject to UCI rules for TT’s. Most of the local TT’s I do are pretty non-technical, so I really don’t think there would be much issue in terms of handling. The only things that may be a bit tricky are starts and turnarounds. Then again, you see bike courriers around with really narrow MTB bars, so how bad could it be. Most skills are trainable.
PW… You never know when you will need the wider bars to control your TT bike on a race.
This year my son was racing a TT in TX. The race was inside a military complex and coming from Mexico, we both thought that it was going to be a very safe course. It was not. A lady made a stop, looked at my son coming, but she miscalculated his speed (he was going at least three times faster than she thought I guess) and by the time she took off my son was on collission course to her car. He is a skilled rider but I doubt that he could have gotten away on that extreme braking situation with the bars slightly wider than the pads. That would have been a serious crash. I really think it is not worth it.
Sergio