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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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