Fake Easton carbon bars?

Triophile

Afternoon, all.

I was hoping I might be able to ask a favour of someone with a bit more experience of carbon components than I have: do these NOS Easton Monkey Lite SL bars I bought off ebay recently look genuine, or are they knock-off? I realise they're older bars, but it would be handy to know before I fit them to my bike, in case they turn out to be flaky and snap :-)

Thanks, Jon.

cooldad

Impossible to tell, but those toes look fake.

The Rookie

The variable wall thickness isn't cheap to create, so a good sign they are genuine.

Logo's are easy to copy, but they look 'right'.
http://p.vitalmtb.com/photos/products/546/photos/115/s780_93701260_1266890572.jpg?1290194432

FishFish

[url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19758368#p19758368]cooldad[/url] wrote:

Impossible to tell, but those toes look fake.

...they're not toes!

The Rookie

They sure look like toes, the bits holding the belly up!

.blitz

They're not Specialized so you might be OK

http://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/components/catch-counterfeiter-sketchy-world-fake-bike-gear

Or FSA or Enve or Bontrager or Chris King or Truvativ or Troy Lee or Giro or etc etc

Triophile

Thanks for the pointers, all :-) I think I'll take my chances with them, as my gut feeling is that the variable wall thickness might, perhaps, be a +1 for genuine. Hopefully I won't end up in A+E :-)