Thread: Carbon Fiber Handlebars
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Old 05-26-11 | 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Jed19
I would never ride a carbon cockpit.

YMMV.

I have taken a spill b/4, where my aluminum handlebar was bent beyond belief, but it stayed intact, and I escaped with just bruises. I just shudder to think what that crash could have done to a carbon handlebar, and where the resulting splinters would have ended.
Concur.
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