Pick Bicycle Handlebars

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Transcript for: Pick Bicycle Handlebars

"One thing that you could do to make your ride more comfortable and give you more control is you can change your handle bars to have a bend that more suits what feels natural on your wrist. You can change the rotation of your handle bars that also effect that and then sometimes you need to you know cut your handle bars down make them a little bit wider for a little bit narrow or a little bit wider depending how wide or narrow your shoulders are. Or change your overall type of handle bar from a rise bar like this to more of a flat bar set up like this which gives you few more extra hand position which is good for longer rides or a little bit more leverage if you are really doing a lot of climbing. So over the next few clips we are going to show you how to go about changing your handle bars."

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