Wooden Handlebars? Why the heck not?

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Are your handlebars not, er, woody enough? Well the crazy guys at Lenkr have just the thing for you.

Launching on Kickstarter on Thursday, Lenkr is hoping that lots of people will want to order its rather special wooden handlebars for their fixie bikes. Prices start at €89 a pair. There are also some bike hooks for a little less.

The bars are 31.8mm and non-tapering (which will make finding a brake lever interesting) and the all-up weight for the 440mm bars is 285g. There are neat endcaps and an alloy core for strength. There is also a 400mm ‘Type B’ bar in 25.4mm that weighs a mere 160g and lets you run more regular brake levers…

Need more details? Check out their website at lenkr.de

Lenkr, wooden handlebars, fixie,
You have to like a bit of woodwork, right?
An assortment of wood and fixings

It also has some snazzy bike hooks for mounting your pride and joy on the wall.

 

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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Replies (3)

    james March 16, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    “in 25.4mm that weighs a mere 160g and lets you run more regular brake levers…”
    I thought most brake levers were 22.2mm? Hence the taper down on 25.4mm bars?

    hodge1365 March 17, 2016 at 7:28 am

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    bodgy March 17, 2016 at 7:43 am

    An unoriginal idea badly executed; the wood isn’t even particularly straight grained. Personally, I’d have used a nice bit of Ash, with it’s shock absorbing properties, high strength to weight ratio and all that.

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