Are Carbon Bars Clyde-safe?
11-07-14, 09:19 PM
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I wish I'd ordered another 2 or 3 of them! Before they were acquired by Backcountry, Competitive used to run crazy deals every now and then. Six months after I got the bars, I managed to score a brand-new Ultra crank for $99. That one might have been during the switch from 6600-series to 6700-series, though.
11-10-14, 06:43 AM
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For the OP, pros and cons of CF bars
Pro - They're light, they soak up vibration, wide variety of shapes making some more comfortable for hand positioning.
Con - They're expensive, for less cost you can get an Alu bar nearly as light, the lighter it is/the more flexible it is. Do a lot of hard climbing/sprinting/pulling on the bars? Lightweight CF bars will flex more than their Alu counterparts.
For a non-CF bar that will soak up a lot of road vibration, you can go a number of routes... Gel padding under the tape (or a built solution similar to it, like the Bontrager IsoZone RaceLite bar), or a thicker tape with more padding (I prefer Lizard Skins DSP)
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