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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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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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]
Well I think they are lovely. Bugger all chance over being able to afford them, but hey. To be honest the more comments I read from people slagging them off, the more I started to like them….
Where can they be ordered from? Just so that I can bookmark the page for future window shopping purposes.
Hmmm, the matt grey would match my natural steel Inbred 567, probably match the price I paid for the frame, too…
Yep, the more I look at them, the more I like them. All those who don’t trust a welded bar to stay in one piece, stop using your bikes NOW. They are definitely going to break on you the next time you ride them, FACT.
Right, now the idiots have all left, the smart ones can get back to admiring a neat solution to a tricky problem. Still can’t afford them, tho’.
*Sniff*
a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
I’ve come to the conclusion that they are a “folly” (in the architectural sense), not that they are strictly for decoration, more that they have a sense of “fun” and “light heartedness” about them, a great feeling of “lets just do something because we can” – rather than because it makes sense in a world of focus groups and profit margins.
Our new dog’s called Folly.
I’ve heard this little company called Easton do some pretty light and strong handlebars, could be worth a look…
(Boring factual bit, Aluminium is actually a lighter material than titanium, Ti is just stronger. If you are limited by wall thickness, this bar could be heavier than say an E70…) Tarty though. Nice gimick for the rich and lonely….
@Brant – Cool name, is he/she a greyhound by any chance? We have 2 plus 2 lurchers…
@treesandrocks – surely life would be rather dull if we all just stuck to the sensible option, for a start the only cars on the roads would be mondeos.
@ChrisS – yes – rescue greyhound – we’ve had her about 10days.
Local trail fans can have a ball by trying to work out where this is 🙂
http://twitpic.com/1z6l2
@Brant – LOL. Let me know if you need a nice martingale for her, wife makes them to raise funds for .