Originally Posted by
jrobe
My point is that you really won't achieve your goal of comfort and road dampening to any meaningful degree with carbon bars. I have a carbon frame and an aluminum frame (Cervelo R3 and P2SL aluminum TT bike). You could put every carbon component possible on the aluminum bike (bars, stem seatpost, fork) and it would still be a rattletrap compared to the carbon frame. The CAAD9 is what it is. You would probably do more to to achieve your goals with high quality bike gloves than with an expensive carbon bar.
I do agree with the above comment that the primary advantage of carbon bars are the non-round shapes. For some, this is an advantage.
Are you saying that there is no worthy benefit to swapping out a cheap uncomfortable OEM bar
for a high quality carbon bar that I can transfer to another bike when I'm ready to upgrade?
That I should suffer with my current bar to avoid having to spend money upgrading?
(just picked up a great pair of high quality gloves yesterday and have my
Fizik Bar Tape & Gel ready to be mounted once I have purchased a bar)
