£50 Carbon Bars on eBay? Any good or Avoid???

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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Did you paint those bars ? They are fantastic. I'd probably overlook that they're as rigid as well done pasta if they looked that nice.
  • Mercury-10
    Mercury-10 Posts: 48
    Yea thanks I did thought I might start bit of a sideline who knows eh?
    Yea I'm getting on
  • Mercury-10
    Mercury-10 Posts: 48
    just a thought does anyone like this sort of stuff or am I wasting my time?
    but until I can find some non flexy handlebars its all a bit in the air really
    http://cyclingphil.blogspot.co.uk/
    Yea I'm getting on
  • milese
    milese Posts: 1,233
    Mercury-10 wrote:
    check this video out, gulp!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc9jKhik ... e=youtu.be

    That is a worry!

    Look great!
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    " If there was any general fatigue-related issues with any critical carbon component, there should be at least a warning in the product documentation"

    My Scott CR1-SL frame & fork came with some kind of generic but draconian warning about replacing carbon components every 2 years. :shock: I'm expecting it to last longer than I do.
  • johnmiosh
    johnmiosh Posts: 211
    Not wishing to be controversial, but i know of two instances where alloy handlebars have broken. Mine failed as I was costing to a halt at traffic lights, the left side gently started to move slowly downwards from the clamp, resulting in a 5mph comedy fall onto the pavement. A friends bar failed on a corner at the bottom of a steep 30mph descent resulting in a fractured skull and a severed facial nerve.
  • MartinB2444
    MartinB2444 Posts: 266
    I have EC90 bars and stems, not the best upgrade ever esp given the cost but they do give a smoother ride (not that everyone finds that a good thing). The downside is that using the max torque between stem and bars isn't enough to cope with big pot hole hits leading the the bars rotating forward. Doing a recent sportive the guys in front weren't to good at indicating and I hit a couple of humdingers. Did around 90 miles unable to properly use the hoods. I could have turned them back with an allen key but I get a bit nervous about over doing it.

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