b-handlebars-stems-index

Hello Relja, I have a steel bicycle Merida with 28" wheels. It has a quill stem with threaded fork. I want to up-date it to threadless fork and AHEAD stem. I thought it would be easy to find such fork, but it is not. My requests are: - steel fork, threadless, diameter 1 1/8", i.e. 28,6 mm -...

Some bikefitters on youtube says that the handlebar width should be the same as shoulders width. I rarely see riders with handlebars width like that, it almost always wider than the shoulders. Should i consider it as a must have tip or it is not always true and you can go wider for some reason...

Hey all, I have an old road bike I want to scavenge from and build a mtb with drop bars. I'm struggling to figure out what components will actually work and which I need to buy new. So here is my parts list from the old frame: - Shifters: ST-4600 road, 2x10 speed - Cranks: FC-6600 Ultegra, 175...

I wrote an article on this topic: Unsafe and bad cycling industry patents I've also made a video where I discuss the quill-stem problem among other things (the link should start at 3:04 where I show and discuss that): Robust and cheap to run bicycle? In that video, I received this (logical and...

I’m 6’3”, current bike Specialized Sirrus X 3.0, XL frame, 2024 model. The Flat Bars supplied are over 720mm wide. I’m a slim build and experience upper arm pain, pins and needles and numb hands after 45 mins riding. I’ve been trying to find a shoulder width correlation to bar width to improve...