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Mike S Bars: Even since I had heard about a stem like the hart stem, i
wanted a zero offset setup. So, as the years passed my money built up and
built up until I could afford the luggery of a zero offset setup. Well, I
got it and I love, it. After riding a regualr stem for
3 years I thought it was gonna be a big switch, and effect stuff like wheel
chairs and side squeeks, but I was wrong.
For those of you who might not
know what zero offset means, I'll explain it. It's zero reach away from the
center of the fork steer tube. With having no offset it places the grip
tubes directly above the axle. Now if i've lost it's ok, here's the simplest
way to describe such a product, no matter which way the bars are there
always forwards.
Now I used to do certain tricks with the bars certain ways
i.e. wheel chairs, megaspins, boomerrangs and whiplashes, and so it made it
difficult to link some tricks together cause my bars would be in the wrong
position. As soon as I got the bars on the bike and rode it I beat myself
up, why you ask? because I don't know how I lived without them.
The advantages
to such a bar are great: no more forcing links to work by relearning tricks
with the bars backwards, no more worrying which way your bars are when you
pick up your bike, no more frustration!!! I used to run 7.5" rise bars before
these and @ 6.5" raise they were perfect for me, I slapped in an inch worth
of spacers and i adjust to the bars so quick it wasen't even funny. My
boomerrangs and whiplashes came so easy with these bars I almost shit out
another breed of animal.
So I give thse bars a 15 out of 3, and I'm not
jokeing. Modification wise I would finish the welds on the top edges and
bottom edges of the gussets and if you use brakes (i don't) drill a hole
through the down tubes on each side to run your cable through so that you
can put your levers directly under the grip tubes.
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