This comment is by no means meant to be rude at all, but pretend you are in grade 4, and read that...lol, thats the explination I'm looking for. You are getting me closer though. But what exactly is the bend?

 

My thoughts were due to being smaller than you average bomb rider,I wanted more
comfort.I asked for TALL bars so i could lean them back so i wasnt leaning forward
like on a crotch rocket.

This was just my interprtation I could very well be not quite as brite as your average
4th grader[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Ok, I will take a shot at answering your real question. But these are only educated quesses.



If the handle bars are in the vertical position:

Rise = The vertical distance from center line of the base bar to cenerline of top bar, where it bends (about 6 inches from the ends).

Length = distance from end to end.

Sweep = The angle that the bar ends are bent off of the horizontal centerd line, if you look at a top view.

Bend = The angle that the bar ends are bent off of the horizontal centerd line, if you look at a front view.



One more thing. I have heard before that there are only a handful of common bends, but they are given lots of different names. So you may find 6 different bars, with the same spec's, but different names.

 

I think your best bet would be going to a shop that carries a good selection of bars and try a bunch of different one's until you find one that fits you the best.

 

i dont have much input on this. all athe bends is a mess to understand. i should market some handelbars and call them the "ds bend"...... anyway i do know dont get the t7 bars from rocky mountain. they are cheap, light, and way better looking than stock but they hit the tank when turning. i called them and they said the raptor has this problem too so they make a special bend for the raptor. i ordered a set of those. maybe they will work. i will post the results when i get them.

 

I bought the Tusk T7 and the Tusk steel bars. You would think that they are the same spec's, but they are not. Only the steel bars worked.

 

And that is what I did. I live only 10 miles from Rocky Mountian ATV. I also hit a few other shops. In the end I only found 1 that was acceptable with the stock steering stem.