XC handle bars and bar ends

Panhandling Prince

Hi

Can you tell me what are the best XC carbon fibre flat handle bars out there at the moment and also the best carbon XC bar ends?

Can you also suggest some more affordable alternatives as well?

Thanks

think180

I have some Ritchet WCS flats, which are perfect, and some Decathlon carbon bars ends.

The bars came from Actionsports.de for only €80.00 or something, and the bar ends for only€20.00.

I don't worry about the Decathlon brand as no-one can see the labels as I pass them!

mtb.boy

I bought some Scandium flat bars from a shop on e-bay. They were only £35 and they only weigh 110 grams. Which is less than a lot of carbon bars.

the_prophet

think your reffering to the kcnc scandium flat bars, same as i'm using at the minute.

they are incredibly light but i'm starting to consider changing for something wider.

Blundell

I've got some bontrager x-lite jobbies that are 2cm wider than most flat bars.. okay they aren't the lightest but hat extra bit of width is more comfortable ... esp on the climbs. BAr ends: why?

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mtb.boy

I find the KCNC scandium one wide enough for me- but I do not have the widest shoulders in the world.

The Spiderman

Raceface Next or Easton EC90 are generally reccomended,by the magazines.

davaomx5

easton ec90 or ec70 for me

baccaman21

I may be wrong but I was under the impression bar ends on Carbon Bars isn't a good idea?

Wouldn't it add extra stress to the ends and run the risk of catastrophic damage to the main bar?

On my Carbon bars (FSA K-force lite XC Riser) it has a little logo that suggests not to put bar ends on... maybe it's specific to my bars but the general idea seems to make no sense to me?

I may be wrong?

ANDE.B

Carbon stuff generally dousn't like being crushed by big alluminium bolts (why you have to be carefull with what torq you put on them)
Bars like the easton ec70's or ec90's simply combat the problem by having reinforced stem and bar-end zones.
i'd go for the eastons.