Carbon fork, carbon bars and 'aloominum' stem

nonickname
nonickname Posts: 16
edited December 2009 in Road buying advice
Hi

Santa brought me some nice Zipp carbon bars from the PX sale

I have carbon forks and a conventional Oval stem

Is this likely to clash or worse still get me laughed at?

Not that I care what others think of my fashion sense but Im guessing that most people with carbon bars probably have a carbon stem too and if so is this for vanity or is a full carbon fork/bar/stem combo the default option for good pragmatic common sense reasons?

Cheers!!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    nonickname wrote:
    Hi

    Santa brought me some nice Zipp carbon bars from the PX sale

    I have carbon forks and a conventional Oval stem

    Is this likely to clash or worse still get me laughed at?

    Not that I care what others think of my fashion sense but Im guessing that most people with carbon bars probably have a carbon stem too and if so is this for vanity or is a full carbon fork/bar/stem combo the default option for good pragmatic common sense reasons?

    Cheers!!

    :lol:
  • nonickname
    nonickname Posts: 16
    edited December 2009
    Wow!

    Noob on internet community makes a technical faux pas and gets an unhelpful comment from an individual with a 4 figure post count

    Thats never happened before
  • TornadoTom
    TornadoTom Posts: 129
    It should be fine, assuming both bars and stem are 26mm.

    Don't worry about NapD he's a bit of a noob too :lol:
  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    nonickname wrote:
    Not that I care what others think of my fashion sense but Im guessing that most people with carbon bars probably have a carbon stem too and if so is this for vanity or is a full carbon fork/bar/stem combo the default option for good pragmatic common sense reasons?

    there's no practical or technical reason why carbon bars need to be combined with a carbon stem... Plenty of non-carbon bikes run a carbon seatpin, for instance...
  • badly_dubbed
    badly_dubbed Posts: 1,350
    i run carbon bars and an alu stem 8)
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  • Harry182
    Harry182 Posts: 1,170
    Your alu stem is probably as stiff and as light as many of the carbon stems out there.
  • TornadoTom
    TornadoTom Posts: 129
    Harry182 wrote:
    Your alu stem is probably as stiff and as light as many of the carbon stems out there.

    Most carbon stems are heavier than their Alloy counterparts, but carbon stems are usually loads stiffer.

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