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Handlebar Shopping

tonedeaf said:
I'm really interested in this as well, since i'm shopping for my SV1k. I'm curious about what each "style" of bend is for, performance-wise.
Obviously, wider means more leverage, further back means more comfort but harder to steer (?)
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Oh..Leverage and harder to steer, are popular terms, but wrong terms.

We aren't talkin wheelbarrow's here.

Turn the bike by leaning it to the degree of lean the bikes geometry wants for the turn...With Your whole body...
Not turning Handle bars with leverage.

Hands relaxed, no more grip on the throttle side that it takes to turn the throttle,(and or) squeeze the brake lever
(which gets squeezed with one finger on my bike).
 
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SummerLove said:
So my Multistrada handlebars are bent pretty bad from falling over in the mud last month. I feel like an idiot because I've been riding with them like this since it happened like 3 weeks ago and couldn't figure out why I can't turn left
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louemc said:
Turn the bike by leaning it to the degree of lean the bikes geometry wants for the turn...With Your whole body...
Not turning Handle bars with leverage.

Hands relaxed, no more grip on the throttle side that it takes to turn the throttle,(and or) squeeze the brake lever
(which gets squeezed with one finger on my bike).
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must....not......get into it.....with......lou.......
 
louemc said:
...We aren't talkin wheelbarrow's here...
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Oh what the heck. Yes we are, big large wheelbarrows, wheelbarrows filled with mercury. You don't have to steer a motorcycle with the handlebars but you do if you don't want to be slow....there I said it.
 
russ69 said:
Oh what the heck. Yes we are, big large wheelbarrows, wheelbarrows filled with mercury. You don't have to steer a motorcycle with the handlebars but you do if you don't want to be slow....there I said it.
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Really? Guess you never saw the stunter in a competion show...
Do tight figure 8's with his arms (and hands,not even on the handlebars), straight up in the air.


Fast, slow, on the ground, off the ground...learn it all, then it all becomes one.
 
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