it looks as though 2 piece big bar trend is coming into effect now.
like alot of the big guys are rolling with em' now, what your take on em in comparison to the ol' conventional style 8 piece bar...

It seems to me that people don't need skinny little bars as much anymore because of the new style of riding. You're still gonna hit your knees, but not as often as when you were trying to do all sorts of weird scuffing tricks with your feet in every imaginable position.

doesn't affect me much - people can use whatever they like, long or short widths -WHATEVER!

i'm pretty much a die-hard fan of 'v' shaped combo bars, cut as wide as my shoulders.

i used to slam my knees (painfully) on the bends at the stemgrip area of 2/4/6/8-pc bars, and i think it's gonna be worst for me if i run them 2-pc'ers on my short top tube frames.

just ride whatever suits your riding style/buget @the moment, don't be a trend whore, it's not called freestyle fo'nuthing...

It's called freestyle because there are no set rules at contests on what kinda tricks you have to present to the judges, so you're pretty much free to do whatever trick/combo you want (that being said, freestyle isn't a discipline, flatland is!). It has absolutely nothing to do with what kinda clothes you wear or what bike setup you rock!

Altho you're free to do whatever trick/combo you want, you should refrain from doing surfers, bar rides, cherry pickers (even tho Martin Aparijo would be proud of you ) etc. during your run for obvious reasons (that's kind of an unwritten law). But you can do those tricks during practice/open practice no problem.

Hope this helps.

I'm glad to see less wacky design. Nothing wrong with simple bikes.

Quote from: nightrider on November 05, 2010, 12:52:11 PM

it looks as though 2 piece big bar trend is coming into effect now.
like alot of the big guys are rolling with em' now, what your take on em in comparison to the ol' conventional style 8 piece bar...

Ha... the old bars are actually the 2-piece.... full circe?

Yes.  GT Performer bars...9 inch rise, 28 wide.  Sounds an awfully lot like the bars everyone is running these days.

doesnt really matter to me, i just got mine super cheap. I was actually going to get some sickchild bars instead

As long as the old dyno bars don't make a come back.  YUCK