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Azonic P.D.W. Chubby Handlebar
Product DescriptionBy engineering the double wall design "outside" and creating an outer, reinforced patented sleeve we were able to increase strength, while decreasing weight and improving overall bar performance. The P.D.W. CHUBBY bar features cold forged construction from 2014 Alcoa® super duralumin aluminum combined with the new oversized 28.6 O.D. center, laser etched graphics, textured finish on the ends for better grip adhesion and is a full 28" wide.Available rises: 1", 1.5", 2", 2.5" Available colors: Black Red, Blue and Polished. 10 year guarantee.
User Reviews 
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killabyte
a Weekend Warrior
from bogota colombia Date Reviewed: August 30, 2010 Strengths: wide, strong, nice look Weaknesses: cant move brake levers and shifters center side enough Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: pavas cuchilla bitaco Duration Product Used: 3 months Price Paid: $100.00 Purchased At: triathlon Bike Setup: XTC alliance 2, SLX group and hidros 
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Eder Savio
a Downhiller
from Florianópolis - Brazil Date Reviewed: May 10, 2007 Strengths: Color resistant to scratches. Weaknesses: No enough space for to assemble the brake levers for one finger use. Heavy. It is hard to find 28.6 stem. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Ratones Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month Price Paid: $35.00 Purchased At: ebay Similar Products Used: Tioga DH, Haro, Specialized, Roox tork bar. Bike Setup: Stinky, DHX 5.0, Monster T, Hope C2, XTR, CrMo Cranks, Maxxis Minion 2.5, Truvativ chain guide. 
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Trevor Thornton
a Downhiller
from Boise, ID Date Reviewed: August 17, 2006 Strengths: They have an awesome bend, and felt really stable. They look pretty sweet. The wide bars put you into a very stable riding position. You can get them cheap in a ton of places. Weaknesses: They broke on me. I only weigh 140 olbs, and I had not crashed majorly since getting them, so the integrity had not beenseverly comprimised. I was riding a rock garden, and next thing I knew, I was tumbling down the hill. I am honestly surprised they have not been recalled yet, as this is not the first time this has happened by any means. Whenever you have doublewall tubing, it's going to have a ton of stress at the junction. Bad design. I damaged my BRAND NEW 66RC2X, and got severely hurt because of the ensuing crash. I only had the bars for about 8 months, and I rode pretty infrequently, so they should not have failed, esecially in this manner. So basically, do not buy these bars. They fail catastrophically as opposed to bending, and THAT IS BAD. Also, the small grip area made it so that I had a hard time using lock on grips, and also I could not cut them down AT ALL. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Pomerelle DH course Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $35.00 Purchased At: A buddy Similar Products Used: A ton of bars, except the other one's didn't break. Bike Setup: KHS FR1500 with Fox Vanilla RC shock, a Marzocchi 66RC2X w/170mm, all high-end downhill components...
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Coop
a Weekend Warrior
from Wisconsin Date Reviewed: March 29, 2006 Strengths: Looks great. Seems indestrcutable. Took a few 10ft + drops. Weaknesses: CREAKS like Frankstien's labratory door. CREAK! CREAK! CREAK! Its drving me nuts. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Porucpine Rim Duration Product Used: 6 months Purchased At: gift from friend Similar Products Used: Easton Monkey Bar, EC7o carbon, FSA riser, Kalloy OS riser, Kore Bike Setup: Litech Magnesium frame, Marzocchi Z1 130mm fork, Avid disc brakes, SRAM x.9 
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Matt
a Downhiller
from Milford NH Date Reviewed: November 8, 2005 Strengths: Strong, good bend, good dh width, looks good Weaknesses: had to remove one of the little rubber things to accomodate a shimano shifter Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: the kind that have a downward sloping incline Duration Product Used: 2 Years Price Paid: $80.00 Purchased At: local shop Bike Setup: Tomac 204, all the goods
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joe brown
from raleigh Date Reviewed: October 4, 2004 Strengths: none Weaknesses: everything, this bar claims strength ... it didnt even last over 1 year it broke on a drop off ....this bar offers a 10 year warranty but only lasted just over 10 months this bar needs to be taken off the market it could cause serious injury to the user Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: street Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $75.00 Purchased At: rei
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Alex Brown
a Weekend Warrior
from Grimsby, UK Date Reviewed: April 29, 2003 Strengths: Fat Very Stiff Weaknesses: Well, They snapped Heavy Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 1 Year Price Paid: $90.00 Similar Products Used: Mission bars, Monty bars Bike Setup: Azonic Ds1 with marzocchi bombers and Azonic finishing kit
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Joe
a Weekend Warrior
from Canada Date Reviewed: January 9, 2003 Strengths: Great bar...awesome to look at. great rise and sweep... so comfy to hold on to. Absolutley great. Weaknesses: I havent found 1 yet Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: urban, dj, drops Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month Price Paid: $15.00 Purchased At: ebay Similar Products Used: Stock kona bar... stock gt bar Bike Setup: 2001 kona stuff. 24inch double tracks. 2002 7 inch junior t. truvativ hussefelt with blackspire guard and guide. Shimano deore disc brakes. front nokian gazzt 3 inch wide tire and 2.6 gazzy junior tire. azonic hammer chubby stem. azonic love seat.tioga dh pedals.
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bOOnie
from Sydney, NSW, Australia Date Reviewed: November 22, 2002 Strengths: Seem Very strong, but after reading the reviews I'm worried about brittle fracture with no warning on thier failure, hope this won't happen. Look way Fat. Weaknesses: NOT ENOUGH ROOM ON THE GRIP LEVEL!! Can't set your brake levers on the inside for 2 finger braking. Can't use lock grips. The roughened grip area doesn't work ended up wiring my grips on. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 2 Years Price Paid: $119.00 Purchased At: The BikeSmith Similar Products Used: Crowbar (sh.t thats why I got these), the thinner walled azonics. Bike Setup: Gary Fisher Level Betty. Changed everything. I'm using the Azonic shorty with these bars, its a tough combo.
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Alto
a Downhiller
from Wimborne Date Reviewed: October 27, 2002 Strengths: tough as hell for a while Weaknesses: after about two months they started creaking a hell of a lot where the bar is joined to the big chubby bit Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Astonhill Duration Product Used: 3 months Price Paid: $50.00 Purchased At: bikelab Similar Products Used: azonis double wall race face and custom made fat ass bars (solid metal) Bike Setup: azonic eliminater boxxer teams m4s d321 hope bulb mrp xt race face
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al moi
a Racer
from ottawa Date Reviewed: July 19, 2002 Strengths: strong, flex free, takes abuse Weaknesses: stupid off red anodized color looks more burgundy pink than red, the finish is not well done so the bar looks like it is "ruffled", i usualy dont care about this type of stuff, but when it's actua;y anoying, it's a whole nother ball game. i like it wide but there isiint room to cut the bar if you wanted it skinnier, unless your rocking single speed. Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: urbs/ xc Duration Product Used: 6 months Price Paid: $65.00 Purchased At: ebay Similar Products Used: titec hellbent (that i bent), and a whole lotta (8yrs worth)flat bar... Bike Setup: FSR Ground Control Comp, 99, fox vanila r, zokes z3 100mm, azonic pdf bar, magura hs-33 brakes, sun rino lite rims, bontrager hubs, intense 2.5 in front, irc el gato 2.25 in rear, wellgo platform pedals, ac cranks with black spire guard, race face XY post with titec beserkr dh saddle, XT compo... just the way you want it
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Garson
a Downhiller
from WESTMASS! Date Reviewed: June 10, 2002 Strengths: Strong, stiff Weaknesses: too wide without room to cut Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: urban or big dirt jumps Duration Product Used: 6 months Price Paid: $50.00 Purchased At: Peak Performance (LBS) Similar Products Used: most azonic bars, titec hellbent DH Bike Setup: Planet X JFC, Psylo SL tulio, Arrow rims, Hayes, CK headset, tioga stem, etc.
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Linus Malm
a Downhiller
from Umea Sweden Date Reviewed: January 14, 2002 Strengths: Strenght, nice sweep and strenght! Weaknesses: Could have more space to fit grips Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Duration Product Used: 3 months Purchased At: Bike Similar Products Used: 24/7 cromoly bars Bike Setup: Azonic ds1, chubby bars, shorty stem, grimeca system 12 (8"/6") brakes, Z1, mavic 521 cd with mobster front and gazza rear.
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Hormis Kalarickal
a Downhiller
from Raleigh NC Date Reviewed: January 4, 2002 Strengths: great bar allows for easy ups easy manuals easy on the eyes Weaknesses: none Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: brown mountain Duration Product Used: 3 months Price Paid: $125.00 Purchased At: REI Similar Products Used: pdw not the chubby but the skinny which is also an awesome bar Bike Setup: ellsworth specialist z-2 hammer stem chubby bar wtb2.4tires triple trap platforms etc....
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Paul
a Downhiller
from Melbourne, Australia Date Reviewed: September 28, 2001 Strengths: Strong to start off and has had some big gaps drops and jumps tolerated. never bent just snapped! Weaknesses: OK now to the point, i bought this bar expecting it would last me at least over a year i bought it knowing it was a double wall D/H, D/S bar that could take wat ever u throw at it. the other day i was just cruisin on the road and decided to just give a quick manual but oh no the bar had to snap as soon as i lifted the bars. load of crap! it was a clean snap to! ok so i took it back to goldcross to see wat was the situation was wit the warrenty. nah sorry m8 cant give u warrenty on that cause u use it for thrashing's and d/s well if u cant do that with it then WTF are u sposed to do with it. so then i had to put up with buyin the same bar for a discount of 30bucks wat a load of F@cked up SH!t!!!! my m8 in a diff bike shop is now goin to take it straight to a rep and he is more then sure it will have warrenty so stick that up ur ass goldcross! Bottom Line: Expand full review >>Favorite Trail: Rob Roy Duration Product Used: 6 months Price Paid: $130.00 Purchased At: Goldcross Cycles Bike Setup: planetx bommer xvert dc dual clamp hayes hydros azonic shorty chubby size. all the good stuff!
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