I believe what you are actually thinking about is that the crash that did Tyler was supposedly cause by a broken set of handle bars. But I believe that no one really knows since it happened where the cameras were really not. One of the bikes that "caused" the crash had a set of broken handle bars when everything was sorted out. There were a couple of other incidents were handlebars broke. Keep in mind that you can break a set of aluminum bars too. Steel bars would be very hard to break since they can take a huge amount of energy and be ruined but in one peice just not the same shape. Also those guys are riding superlite carbon fiber composites put more miles in then I could hope too and oh yeah they crash at 25 to 40 mph. The big crash was at the 1km kite which means people are pushing some big gears and everyone was proably working in the 35 mph range. I don't know about you but that would have to be a decending crash for me and I would expect something other then my handlebars to be broken ie me.