Miele Man

No problem.

What surprised me with that 12" handlebar was how much control I had with it. It was a LOT MORE than I expected.

Cheers

TejanoTrackie 

I like this kind of bar

ofajen

I’ve got some old GB drop bars on the road-ish bike and Scott AT-4 Pro on the 26er.

Otto

Dylansbob 

AT4's rock. I had one on my first fixed gear in '99.

ofajen

I guess they are obsolete but I‘ve always liked them!

Got a Gary Fisher Montare in 1993 from a guy working at a local shop. It had the 21” width of AT-4 pro bars w/ the aero parts chopped off. Even so, good positions for braking, climbing, cruising and perhaps my favorite grip and position for riding out of the saddle. Now I also have a complete version in the wider 23” width so it has the aero option, but not sure which I actually prefer overall.

Great as a sort of aggressive trekking bar. I mostly ride road, gravel and wide, easy trails, nothing technical, so it’s a great fit for my rides.

Otto

frankenmike 

Quite possibly the nerdiest looking bars and I’m thinking of going back to bullhorns, but man these H-bars are so fun and comfy.

Gresp15C

All of my bikes have swept bars. Some types that I've used:

Origin8 Citi Classic
Velo Orange Tourist
Close-out aluminum bar from Niagra Cycle
Old Schwinn steel bar
FSA Metropolis

Widths vary, but not by a lot. Some of these were online deals, rather than resulting from deep research.

I'm not trying to get in between trucks and buses in NYC, and in any event, my bars don't need to be any narrower than my arse. Bar width has never been an issue in the relatively tame traffic of a mid sized Midwestern town. I'm not going on any group rides, so I don't have specific equipment requirements, and it's all about comfort and control.

ofajen

I have the Sunlite Elson Roadster, a swept bar that is a basically a copy of the Nitto Albatross shape but a heavier steel bar. I tried it on my MTB, but the frame is pretty small for me, so it’s tough to use a sufficiently long stem to get it forward enough for my liking.

OTOH, It’s a very good shape. I like the range of positions it allows if you use grips and then tape everything forward of the brake levers.

Otto

Gresp15C

I'll admit that much as I love swept bars, I'm not a MTB'er, and would be nervous about recommending them for MTB use. I don't know the correct terminology, but I've taken all of my bikes on "easy" MTB trails, and when the trail is bumpy, the bike has a tendency to "buck" from front to back. At one point, I nearly lost my grip of the bar, which would have been a problem. I can see why the MTB'ers prefer straight bars, or bars with minimal sweep, from the standpoint of maintaining grip when the bike is going crazy under you.

Steel bar isn't an altogether bad thing, as it does take up some of the harshness, like what they say about steel frames.

Of course we rode swept-bar bikes all over the place as kids, but that was before MTB'ing made it to our neck of the woods, so an off road trail was just whatever it happened to be, and was not designed to require special riding skills. And if the terrain was impossible, you got off and portaged the bike. It's one thing to have a general purpose bike that can be taken off road, and quite another to ride a real mountain bike.

ofajen

Agreed. Used in the way I suggest, it’s more of a trekking bar with a big range of back to front riding positions. I’ve switched back to my Scott AT-4s that offer roughly the same forward and lateral positions but keep a more typical straight bar MTB braking position that seems more stable in hard braking and maneuvering.

I did give up the more upright position in the grips, but that’s not really so useful for my rides.

Otto

Philasteve

I was using like 24" riser bars and switched to these in 40cm like a year ago. And have been enjoying them a lot more, probably won't put riser bars back on for awhile. https://www.somafab.com/archives/product/highway-1-bar

ofajen

I’ve used this setup before and really like it. I put my Scott bar ends back on the AT-4s where they were chopped, so now I still have an aero position.

Very handy because today I decided to convert it back to a single speed! The aero position helps me deal with headwinds!

Otto