Narrow bars???

[Scott Freibaum]

I am currently riding lucky bars 24 high 20 wide. I'm mainly a flat/street rider. I used to ride about 16 wide and loved my flat tricks. I then decided to bump up my width to 20 to try and gain style. As in a bar to bar on 14 wides looks worse then bar to bars on 20 wides. I'm curious, does it really throw your style off that much riding smaller bars? Just opinions of course.

 

[Kieran Mayhew]

I ride 18 wide, I find it gives a perfect balance between style and tricks.

 

[Derek Seay]

Its just preference. All i do is barspin combos and i ride 20's. But, riding mainly flat has to be hard with 20's

 

[TomK]

I just moved up from 18's to 20's and I really don't feel a huge difference haha. I can still do al the same tricks as I could with 18's. If you have your tricks down solid, switching width shouldn't effect you that much.

 

[Scott Freibaum]

The only time it width and height gets in the way is for flat bar to bars, flat 360 tucks (normal tucks are easier), and flat whip bars. But park feels better I just feel my flat game slipping.

 

[joshrb]

I'm the same as you dude, I have moved back and forth from 18 to 20 wide soo much. But I feel now that I could ride wider bars simply because 18 just feels a lil small now haha, probs cus I've grown loads recently :3

 

[tylerbillman]

It depends on the size of the tricks you're doing. I ride 20 wides and mostly do small stuff, so I've been thinking about downsizing for a bit more control and ease, but if I was hucking shit down huge gaps or doing big airs and shit more I'd stick with 20 wide.
It's all personal preference though.

 

[.Gerrit]

16 wide district bars=effortless barspins for days.

 

[Piccadilly]

Arn't you suppose to have the same width bars as your shoulders?? Just what i read somewhere...

 

[Mikey G]

That's a good rule of thumb, I've found it works wonders.

 

[Rob.]

If I were you I'd just make a cheap set up for flat with narrow bars and bring the wide bar / normal set up to parks.
Best of both worlds.

 

[Scott Freibaum]

My shoulders measure at 19 inches around haha

 

[connornub]

If I were you I'd just make a cheap set up for flat with narrow bars and bring the wide bar / normal set up to parks.
Best of both worlds.

Or buy some tsi scepters or even mgp bars? And get two crossbars.

 

[Scott Freibaum]

I actually have two older sets of bars ones 14 wide the other is 18.