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Dean USA
Dean Titanium Handlebar
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Submitted by
todd
a
from Garner NC
Date Reviewed: December 6, 2005 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | Titanium | | Weaknesses: | None | | Bottom Line: | Good bar for the money. They actually custom made mine a bit wider than stock to fit me better. Quality was good | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
chris
a
from ct
Date Reviewed: April 28, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | deanusa.com | | Strengths: | ti | | Weaknesses: | flex, grips came off in race. | | Similar Products Used: | titec, ritchey logic | | Bottom Line: | im getting new bar asap. i got my whole bike from dean it took 3 months and they cant even get a little simple thing like putting grips on. this may have cost me the win. sorry if i sound alittle pissed but you would be to. where is 0 flamin chili | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ben
a Cross Country Rider
from New Mexico
Date Reviewed: September 15, 2001 | | Favorite Trail: | Signal Peak Race Course | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$75.00 | | Purchased At: | Twin Sisters Cyclery & Fitness | | Strengths: | Lightweight, Shock absorption, strong, quality craftsmanship | | Weaknesses: | none | | Similar Products Used: | tomac,icon, answer | | Bike Setup: | daVinci Designs FS, Icon, Dean, Ame', Sram, Avid, Cane Creek, IRD, Delta, DT Hugi, daVinci designs, IRC, Inmotion, Action-Tec, Race Face | | Bottom Line: | Great bar for the price. I like the amount of shock absorption. Nice an lightweight. Withstood several hard crashes in rock beds. Good company with great support. Nothing to say that's bad. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tarmac
a Racer
from Auckland, NZ
Date Reviewed: December 19, 1999 | | Favorite Trail: |
Karapoti | | Duration Product Used: |
more than 3 years | | Strengths: |
Light weight (135grms)
one of the widest flat bars available (24)
Strong
the DEAN logo.....it's so pretty!
Complient ride | | Weaknesses: |
that pretty logo rubs off too easily...but hey, it's an MTB so who really cares anyway?
Maybe the price. | | Similar Products Used: |
Zoom 170, 150, 130
Answer Hyperlite
Bontrager Titec 118
Scott Thermoplastic
& assorted other junk. | | Bike Setup: |
AMP B5 w/F4 fork, discs & the usual high end stuff. | | Bottom Line: | This is one of the best things that I've ever bought for my bike.
Of all the bars I've listed this is the only one that hasn't broken.
I've been racing & training on this bar for years now & it's still going strong.
I crashed heavily at Karapoti this year & when I got back on I thought my bar had finally bent. But no, the Dean bar was so strong that it had actually twisted my stem so that the left side of the bar was now about half a foot lower than the right side. By the way, the stem was a Control Tech (Old style with 1 bolt clamp for the bar). How's that for strong?
The only downside is the price, (it's now $109 at Cambria) but eventually it evens out as you don't need to replace your bar every year or so.
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