I’m not sure when it happened.
At some point, even the word “freedom” began to feel a bit heavy on the lungs.

Life used to be less free.
But in my memory, it felt warmer too.
Perhaps it was because we weren’t expected to question so much—
what to do, how to live.
The homes we were born into, the work we stepped into, the beliefs we inherited—
these things shaped our world without us even noticing,
and in doing so, they gave our lives a kind of meaning.

Today, we’ve dismantled the walls that once held us.
Do what you love. Live anywhere.
Don’t wait for permission—everything is possible.
And yet, in a world of infinite choices, no choice can claim to be the “right” one.
Freedom arrives not only with possibility, but with gravity.

Freedom isn’t a wind that simply blows through our lives.
It’s closer to a structure we design intentionally—our own chosen set of limits.
Because without some constraints, we can’t stand for long.
Waking at the same hour, opening the shop, making that first cup of coffee—
these small, steady habits become the quiet framework that lets freedom take shape.

When a choice is made by our own hand, not by someone else’s command,
the limit we set stops being a burden and becomes a foundation.
To move toward with the version of ourselves we want to embody,
we build just enough structure around our lives to hold that shape.
I’d call that a designed constraint.

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Loneliness is the unintended consequence of designing our lives this way.

The Little Nick Bar has been a longtime staple in the SimWorks by NITTO family.
With just a slight sweep back from flat, it has steered countless riders toward a more open, effortless sense of freedom on the bike.

To choose freedom is to leave someone else’s story and speak your own.
And in that choice, empty space appears—misunderstandings, uncertain paths, days without resolution.
But those spaces are also the canvas where new creation is born.

Don’t rush to fill the loneliness—sit with it, watch it.
Beyond the tremor of anxiety, a small silhouette starts to appear.
And that silhouette is the first trace of your own story.

The newly released “BIG” Little Nick Bar features a deeper sweep toward the rider. While the original Little Nick has a 15° backsweep, the Big Little Nick increases that to 32°. How you interpret and use that 17° difference is entirely up to you—how you structure your freedom on the ride, and how you shape your own style.

In place of the stories society once gave us, we humans have gained the freedom to write our own.
It is unstable and takes effort.
Yet those who can design their own constraints are also better able to understand the freedom of others—with care and with integrity.

Perhaps freedom is the order we discover at the far end of loneliness.
A willingness to take on it all—uncertainty and stability, choices and surrender.
It is only on that balance that the true sense of living can arise.

Big Little Nick Bar

Material: CrMo Steel
Width: 700 mm (center – center at ends)
Clamp Diameter: 25.4 mm
Grip Diameter: 22.2 mm
Rise: 0 mm
Backsweep Angle: 32 deg.
Grip Length: 170 mm
Finish Options: Silver, Black

Made by NITTO, Japan