Originally Posted by
Nagrom_
The level of cash in my wallet is also insufficient.
Also, I was looking at weights of carbon vs. alloy, and not much is saved in the cockpit area.
But nah, its not finished, there's about 6 inches of steerer tube sticking out that I photomagically left out, and all the cables aren't connected to their parts, and it's chainless as of now.
What were you looking at? There's actually bars & stems on the market that are actually aluminum wrapped in carbon with the carbon just being there for nothing more than aesthetics and supposed additional rigidity which I find to be a bit ambiguous considering the oriented discipline of cycling. And sneaky sellers not advertising as such especially in the lower end.
*Crosses fingers that this will have a shorter stack than the most expensive kilo.