| In any mechanism like bicycle, motor, watercraft or | | | | Drop handles have shallow or deep drop used on |
| water boat, handlebars are important mechanism that | | | | road or track bicycles. It has flat top section which |
| drives your passion. It is a steering tool that maintains | | | | brings more comfort to hands. Drop handlebars also |
| your balance when you drive it towards your way. It | | | | have sometimes two or more longitudinal |
| is also believed handlebars also support a portion of | | | | indentations. Raiser or flat bars are standard bars |
| the rider’s weight on the bicycle or any driving | | | | used for mountain bikes, fixed gear bikes. It is |
| mechanism. It is also somehow equivalent to the | | | | straight but slightly bent towards rider. |
| steering wheel mechanism used in four wheeler | | | | Upright is also known as Townie because it has seen |
| vehicles. You cannot think of a bicycle without a | | | | an upgrade in popularity on some of hybrid models |
| handlebar. If it removed you cannot drive it. This is | | | | and city bikes. Actually these are bars are swept |
| one such essential part of bicycle that drives your | | | | back facing towards the rider. Touring type bars are |
| bicycle wherever you want. Handlebars are specially | | | | known as “Butterfly” as it seen as broken |
| designed for all different kinds of bicycles in different | | | | figure of eight arrangement mounted horizontally on |
| styles. It is manufactured keeping in view the | | | | the stem. This bar allows rider to have comfort in |
| different types of riding styles for any kind of riders. | | | | their hands and also get an upright position. Triathlon |
| Generally handlebars are made of aluminum alloys but | | | | or aero handlebars are specially designed for racing |
| it also made of some other metals. These metals can | | | | bicycles and time trial bicycles. Pursuit bars also |
| be steel, titanium, carbon fibre or some other alloys. | | | | popularly known as bullhorns because the bars are |
| Today you will varieties of handlebars to choose for | | | | designed to look as curve up and forward just same |
| your bicycle but earlier there were not much option | | | | as horns. This bar is named after the discipline of |
| to choose. Some of today’s most used types of | | | | track racing where it was originally used at first. BMX |
| handlebars are Drop, Flat or raiser, Upright or North | | | | bars are used on BMX bicycles and are more rise |
| road, Touring or Trekking, Triathlon or aero, BMX, | | | | than straight also has a cross brace to provide rigidity |
| cruiser, Moustache, Ape hangers and Recumbent. | | | | and strength. |