Originally Posted by cappuccino911

put them on today and so far so good. i also got a stem from inertia ninja that probably won't stay on since it's only 90mm. My old stem was 120 so thats a pretty big change and I'm not sure how I feel about it. This is my first time riding with carbon stem/bars and I can definately say on the lightly bumpy roads it really does smooth out the ride even more. I asked the guys at the LBS if they get a lot of people coming in with these generic bars to do installs and they said that they do not. He gave them a good look over and didn't see any reason to think that they wouldn't be perfectly good bars. I feel like they may be a touch more flexy than my old aluminum but certainly they are plenty stiff.

Because of my torn ACL in my left knee I almost never get up out of the saddle when I ride so there aren't many times where I'll even be putting a ton of stress on the bars anyways so i feel pretty good about them. Wrapping the bars was a pain because 1. the extra width on the tops means you run out of tape and 2. I absolutely SUCK at wrapping bars. I wasn't really sure how far to wrap them and how much carbon to leave showing. They don't have internal cable routing, just a channel on the bottom but the cables do fit nicely into those channels and provide a clean look. The op gave me $10 discount since they were both basically brand new in fact, I met him at the post office where he picked up the stem so it was brand new so my total investment on this $105. the stem is 25 grams lighter than my old one and the bars are 60 grams lighter than my aluminum. Not a huge savings but a savings nonetheless.