Titanium. Three piece. 31.8mm clamp. 710mm width. Flipping light. Flipping expensive. Regular sweep. Or crazy mega-sweep (as in the pics).
Lynskey Handlebars – Discuss
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Titanium. Three piece. 31.8mm clamp. 710mm width. Flipping light. Flipping expensive. Regular sweep. Or crazy mega-sweep (as in the pics).
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So can anyone explain why they’re made the way they are? Is it to allow greater sweep than would normally be viable with a single tube bar? Is there some benefit to position? Is it stiffer? stronger? There has to be SOME reason, surely?
And before I get told I’m being argumentative and have another comment pulled I’m genuinely interested in the thinking behind the design rather than bickering about looks.
There’s something mildly amusing in riding a £400 bike with a £200 set of handlebars…
To do an oversize 31.8mm centre bar in titanium is very hard. To make it in one piece, you would have to start with a 31.8mm tube, then roll it down at the ends to 22.2mm, then put bends in. I have no idea if this is even possible. I guess Nasa could do it. It’s awfully expensive just in terms off tooling, and unless you butted the tube before you’d do it, you’d end up with very thick walls on the 22.2mm stuff.
So I decided to suggest this method. Where you can choose the wall thickness you want for each section and just weld it together. The two 22.2mm bits have a single plane bend. The cross section has an ovalisation at each end, and a mitre. The centre is “re-rounded” after welding to make sure the bars don’t creak.
We’re really happy with the results, and equally realise that the market for £200 handlebars is probably quite limited 🙂
I think they look cool.
Thanks Brant. Now it makes sense 🙂
They do look fugly to me, whats the reasoning behind leaving the bit of tubing past the welds onto the cross piece? surely it would look neater and save some weight it it was cut/welded flush, and the tubing shaped to blend in.
The look is growing on me. Don’t think they’re for me, 660 – 680 is wide enough pour moi.
The biggest drawback I can see Brant is customers taking a leap of faith to buy. Can see take up being slow as people get to ride other peoples. £200 for a bar is a lot of outlay on something that is, let’s be fair, in appearance away from the norm. But obviously not intended as a mass Market thing like a Jones H Bar. Will there be a steel version?
As Mr Bontrager said “light, cheap, longlife – pick any 2”
“surely it would look neater and save some weight it it was cut/welded flush, and the tubing shaped to blend in.”
Much longer weld on the bottom. And it’d still stand out. I’m happy with the “cut off BMX bar” look 🙂
Most shocking part of the story –
“I fitted them to my bike and they made me smile, and their aesthetic comes purely from the construction method used”
Brant rides a Cube!
I think they look good, if they conformed to the “normal” look they’d be just the same as everything else? But then i do like the Jones H bar!!
But obviously not intended as a mass Market thing like a Jones H Bar. Will there be a steel version?
Jones bars are mass market? Well I never…
“Brant rides a Cube!”
No – that was Benji’s test bike. I ride an on-one (currently)!
“Jones bars are mass market? Well I never…”
I think that’s the grammatic pedant in you coming out Chipps. Or you read it wrong 🙂
they look like a £10 bar.
you’d have to be a mug to buy them.
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet” – Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
” A turd, while polished, will always be a turd” – Sanny:-)
I just don’t see the point in the same way that Jones bikes are to my eye an object lesson in fugliness and justification of a design that doesn’t really do anything better than the next bike along other than look that bit different. I’m curiously reminded of the mid 90s fashion for fancy bike bits that came from small manufacturers in a miasma of anodising. Where are they now, I wonder? I suspect the fact that there was a collective realisation that Mr Shimano made stuff that worked better, lasted longer and cost a whole lot less might have contributed to their demise.
Still, if only for the reason of creating brand awareness, the fugly bars have clearly done a great job! 😉
Sanny
Admit it, you just cut the bottom bit off some bmx bars
Surely the big advantage is the material? Ti has that bit of spring and vibration absorbtion like carbon, that Aluminium doesn’t. After breaking my wrist I wapped bars on two bikes to carbon or Ti and found it helped remove a problem with wrist ache. So these bars are competing with the likes of Easton Monkey lights on performance and I guess some people just don’t like carbon.
The look is growing on me, but that is clearly a personal thing!
Brant why not just use 22.2mm bar (butted if possible) and spacers at the stem clamp as some other manufacturers of Ti bars do? and with a choice of spacer size luddites (like me) that are still using a standard size stem are still served by the bar.
neilnevil – a mate of mine had aluminium bars that flexed to an alarming degree (the ends would flex by about 2cm when he put all his weight (not much) on them).
It depends on the alloy and construction.
glen, as you say, construction is important but there is also a difference in feel between stif/flexy and harsh/absorbing. I have a set of 710mm ish Ti bars from Seven and find them really stiff, they really don’t seem to flex at all (but I can notice both my 660mm wide Aluminium FSA bars or my 660mm wide USE carbon bars flex a little) but the Ti bars still don’t make my wrist ache. The Aluminium ones do sometimes. Odd isn’t it.
Hi Neil, how’s it going?
Re your comments about wrist pain, I think you might be confusing cause and effect. My wrist was intermittently quite painful after I broke it, but has gradually got better over four years or so, with no change to the bars I’m using. If anything, with the introduction of 31.8 they’re even stiffer than what I was on before. It’s just part of the healing process.
Hi Anthony,
not bad thanks, except the riding in London doesn’t come close to Bristol and its surroundings! Epping Forest was a comlete swamp at the weekend :o(
I agree with what you say healing gets there eventually, I can pretty much ride any of my bikes ache free now….even the unicogger that currently has the aluminium bars and rigid salsa cro mo forks. BUT for a couple of years I had carbon bars on one bike and alloy bars on another and only rides on the alloy bar’ed bike made my wrist ache. When I swapped the bars on that bike too the aching stopped. Ti and Carbon bars, just like frames, should hopefully have a bit more life and spring and a bit less harshness. That makes very little difference to many of us but it does matter for a few people.
Fair do’s. I wouldn’t spend £200 to sort out a problem that’s going to naturally resolve itself, but then I’m a tightwad. 😉
Sorry to hear London is a swamp, but then so is Bristol at the moment!
Interesting. If you lengthen the centre tube and weld the extensions slightly differently then they are very similar to Jones H-Bars. Squinting helps a bit 🙂
Checks date, no just a bit too early…
Just put the regular sweep, less “matt finish” version on my bike today. Liking the Grifter styling.
very similar styling to my old Spooky bars.
hmmm. No. [sorry Brant]