Time for some mission specific riding on the beast and i managed to ride across the exposed mud flats to the side of the River Tyne out in the basin of Hedderwick sands.
I have found the old carbon bars on the Moonie a bit narrow and wanted to fit something wider.
Finding wide bars in the now old size 25.4mm diameter is getting harder, but that's what all my Hope stems are. Searching around on line i found some 750mm wide - 50mm riser bars by Funn at CRC, already the 750mm bars are sold out since last Friday, so looks like a thing of the past now... but i prefer the the look of skinny 25.4mm diameter bars on steel frames...
Out across the salt marsh and across some slick mud which had the moonie spinning like crazy but slowly inched forward onto the rippled soft sand on the river bank...
Around Sandy Hirst and from the high tide line i made for a diagonal straight across the exposed rocks, mud
and rock pools to St Baldreds cradle...
Those big bars come into their own on rocks making control easier, though i still wouldn't want as wide a bar on a regular MTB for riding at trail centres or woodland trails...
This kind of riding is what i had in mind for this bike and it rewards with amazing grip and ability...
Mission specific...
Happy days...
When am I coming along?
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