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A mate wants a carbon flatbar for his rigid 29er. He's a towpath bimbler so it doesn't need to be trick/tough/cool but it seems like the price distribution for carbon bars is bimodal; they are either mega cheap Chinesey (sub£20) or trick-as-you-like RF, Easton, Syntace et al at £100+.
Is there anything in the middle, like £40-60?
OnOne do the Knuckleball chewy for £55 but it's a riser, so not ideal.
Needs to be at least 710mm and 31.8mm
Mt Zoom from XCRacer used to be comparitively good value - not sure if they go low enough in price for that budget, though.
I have a used mt zoom mini riser - i think its 10mm but its on the xcracer site. He can have it for £45 posted.
Either second hand, or at that price a decent alloy would be the way to go. Spank oozy vibrocore is just over £60.
cheers. He wants new carbon. Will check out MT Zoom.
MTZoom are in the top bracket too...
RSP about £50. Just ordered an Ego 780mm riser bar, but they do flat as well.
Alpkit do one, it may be in budget - I've got one on my HT and it's great
Nice One (RSP). HighOnBikes have some for £60.
Second the RSP
can't see any bars on the Alpkit website. Somewhere else?
ah, it's in the Sonder bit. Looks all alloy though.
apologies - it's been discontinued !
Ta all. RSP bought.
I've bought hardly any carbon parts at all, but the first thing that comes to mind is exotic, and they seem to do a bar for under £60:
https://www.carboncycles.cc/?s=0&c=94&p=1254
Edid: whoops, I'm late
Got two Mt Zoom ones. Not super-cheap but sensibly priced and have been excellent. Well, the first one has, which is why I've just got one for the other bike
I have an Exotic carbon flat bar. It is amazing. Incredibly light, I mean really light, sensibly stiff, very comfy and looks great. It was £50ish and I honestly can’t see how it could be improved. Total bargain.
I also have a Knuckleball. It’s good but not as good as the Exotic.
I got a Ragley wiser? bar on my hardtail, it’s been absolutely fine and was pretty reasonable. With the resurgemce of Ragley maybe we’ll see the component range come back?