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Submitted by
Mutantclover
a Cross Country Rider
from Maine
Date Reviewed: August 24, 2008 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Price Paid: |
$15.00 | | Purchased At: | ebay | | Strengths: | 7 degree bend, 620 mm width. Those are specs you normally get with a riser bar and are almost impossible to find in a flat bar! Plus, its aluminum, and oversize, which means stiff and bombproof. Custom butted means good strength-to-weight ratio. Compared to the bar from Niner and Salsa, which are the only ones I found with similar measurements, this is a third the price of the aluminum version, nevermind the carbon. | | Weaknesses: | I use grip shifters and thus the "non-shifting" part of my grip is shorter than ordinary. This makes grip creep an issue on any bar I've ever used. Sanding these helped, but ultimately I got Hope Grip Doctors. This isn't really a weakness of this bar but in an ideal world... | | Similar Products Used: | A 580 mm bar with 3 degree bend for a month or so on another bike--really wiggly steering and too narrow for my shoulders! That experience taught me what bar geometry is all about.
One of those basic profile design risers on my SS--good bar, but at 650 mm long and not oversize, I'd swear there is significant flex when mashing. Not enough to upgrade stem and bar to oversize though, it just a singlespeed ;) If I were to upgrade though, I'd get one of those nifty easton DH carbon risers... then I'd be steering straight... drool | | Bike Setup: | late 90's hardtail frame designed for an 80 mm fork, but using a 100mm Reba, therefore the headtube and fork combo requires a flatbar to give me what would be riser geometry on today's XC bikes. And the angles are not stock of course, but seem just as good. | | Bottom Line: | Good bar... should last virtually forever. Honestly most products on MTBR should get 2-3 stars for value. That would help products like these, that are a rare great deal, stand out with 5 stars. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Cj Smith
a Downhiller
from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Date Reviewed: June 26, 2007 | | Favorite Trail: | Local Secret | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | Came with bike | | Strengths: | Look and feel amazing, Light weight, extremely strong. | | Weaknesses: | No such thing | | Similar Products Used: | Truvativ Hussefelt riser and other random stock bars. | | Bike Setup: | Trek Bruiser 1 with 06 Marzocchi Triple Drop Off's, Hayes MX3 Brakes, Mavic 721 rims. | | Bottom Line: | Iv'e hit 13 foot gaps and some pretty high drops. I live in Ontario so lots of my landings are hard and flat. These bars will not break. They have never let me down. The feel amazing, they look amazing, there extremely light, and best of all there still alive. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
matt
a Downhiller
from ancaster ontario canada
Date Reviewed: May 28, 2006 | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | its strong but SO uncomfterble | | Weaknesses: | just everything its sooo short. 24"s like seriously tahts painfull. 27" + is the way to go. NO RISE | | Bike Setup: | trek bruiser2 | | Bottom Line: | its really short and umcomfterable. DONT BUY IT. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
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