I am constantly playing with my position on my bike. MTBing is about compremises, you set the bike up to climb and it interfers with descending or vice versa.
Bar-ends are one of those things that come on and off my bike. I love them for climbing, particularly climbing out of the saddle. It just feels right. However I dislike how much they narrow the cock-pit. I could run wider bars, but it hard to find wide flat bars with minimal sweep. (Lots of sweep and bar-end is a bad combination).
Right now I am loving the bar-ends. They will stay on my bike until I crash or have a near crash because my bars too narrow. At that point I will probably compremise my bike for descending, the bar-end and the flat bars will be taken off and the riser thrown back on.
The crazy thing is I know I will love having the riser bar on, except of course, on the climbs.
Bar-ends are one of those things that come on and off my bike. I love them for climbing, particularly climbing out of the saddle. It just feels right. However I dislike how much they narrow the cock-pit. I could run wider bars, but it hard to find wide flat bars with minimal sweep. (Lots of sweep and bar-end is a bad combination).
Right now I am loving the bar-ends. They will stay on my bike until I crash or have a near crash because my bars too narrow. At that point I will probably compremise my bike for descending, the bar-end and the flat bars will be taken off and the riser thrown back on.
The crazy thing is I know I will love having the riser bar on, except of course, on the climbs.