"Alt" or Alternative Mountain Bike Handlebar Round Up

[Scimitar]

I've put together a list of over 30 "Alt" mountain bike handlebars. These designs tend to have a lot more sweep than a normal MTB handlebar for a neutral wrist position. Have you used any of these bars personally? What kind of sweep do you like?

Alternative or "Alt" Mountain Bike Handlebar Round Up

[michaelscott]

I've used the Titec J bar which is he same dimensions as the Jones bar- and now I have a Jones loop bar.

Some of those bars look cool but I love my Jones so much I wouldn't be open to trying anything else right now.

[Gasp4Air]

Ragley Carnegies. Unfortunately, they're not available anymore.

[Bokchoicowboy]

I have the Origin-8 Propulsion Gary II bars. They are on a full rigid disc brake multi-speed 26 wheel bike that I use for adventure rides (with the wheels off fits into my wife's car trunk, take it to go exploring all over California when I travel with her when she visits business clients), commuting, or general riding when I don't want to take the full-suspension.

I have this set up with Shimano bar-end shifters and interrupter brake levers with regular drop levers. These off-road drop bars give me a lot of different hand/grip positions for the variety of uses this bikes has. When on a long exploratory ride, when I might be on singletrack, fire-road, pavement, etc it is really nice to be able to take advantage of those different bends in the bar. If the hands/wrists/arms/back get tired I always have multiple positions to move to.

I looked at several of the other "alt" bars but kept going back to these things, so I bought them.