when is a handlebar not a handlebar?

Anonymous

when it s a pig ugly expensive and not particularly light one:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/News.aspx?NewsID=539

Da Mighty Chicken

sheepsteeth wrote:

when it s a pig ugly expensive and not particularly light one:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/News.aspx?NewsID=539

I'll take 2, only £199 each! :shock:

The Northern Monkey

Ooo £200
I think they look quite sweet!

I wonder how much of a bike could be completely made from ti now?
Would cost a fortune!

ride_whenever

I have to say i do like the ti bars I tried, they were on an old skool trek and were flat, but absolutely lovely to ride.

The Big Cheese

I really like them to be honest :oops:

But not at £200 though!!! :shock:

soy_sauce

what??!!!! £200??!!!! what a bargain, i will exchange an arm (not mine), a leg (also not mine) and a baby chav (again, not mine) for it.

The Northern Monkey

if i had a ti bike (i do want one), i'd def have those bars just to be censored and a show off

Chaz.Harding

Yeah, I really like the look of them

But I really hate the price... :evil:

£200!!! Are they having a laugh?? It's 3 tubes and 2 welds!!!

Idiots

ratty2k

Brant designed those.... Not my cup o tea TBH but lots cheaper than the only Ti bars I looked at (and then bought the cheaper ally copy.... )

Northwind

So the 3-tube design is so they can use the exact amounts of material in each location that they want, to make it light but strong yet still having hte exact amount of flex and buzz reduction that they want. Seems a lot of effort, if only someone would invent some better material than metal for these things, perhaps using resin and some sort of carbon-derived fibres.

NigelSWales

Carbon nanotubes FTW :P

Prowlus

thats nothing compared to the combo stem and handlebars i've seen there

Captain Turok

Wouldn't pay that if I had a matching Jones(?) swirly frame

xtreem

amazing steering precision

I wonder how inaccurate the curent cheaper bars are.

Steve_b77

You musn't forget the demi-god of all current hardtail frame design came up with those, so abviously they will sell in their hundreds just because they have his name attached!

But they are gopping and seriously over priced.

Just don;t bring it up on STW as you'll be prodded with a big stick if you dis one of his designs

ratty2k

Captain Turok wrote:

Wouldn't pay that if I had a matching Jones(?) swirly frame

Ahh, been looking at getting a Jones myself.... Need the exchange rate to improve first. But, back on track, if I do get a Jones, then I will be fitting a Jones bar- at $500 what that works out at now- £350 ish? :shock:

M6TTF

i like the look, but they're too pricey, nearly a pound a gram LOL - they're not even particularly light.

myopic

Ugh!!, At first I couldn't understand the reference to 3 parts until I tried to scroll down the pic to see what the base was like :oops: - thought they were like BMX handlebars until I realised that the pics showed the whole thing.

stubs

They are so pig ugly I got Swine Flu looking at them

GHill

M6TTF wrote:

they're not even particularly light.

About the same as the Easton Monkeylite DH, which I guess would be part of the competition. If you're in the market for a Ti handlebar for DH you know it's not going to be cheap...

Does nothing for me though.