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12/2/2019 12:50 PM

35mm Carbon Handlebars Flex Tested and More - Vital Gear Show

This week on the Vital Gear Show, we flex test 8 different mountain bike handlebars. Six of them are 35mm diameter carbon bars, and we add a 35mm alloy bar and 31.8 carbon bar into the mix to see just how compliant they are. OneUp, Deity, ENVE, Race Face, Renthal, Tag Metals and Hope handlebars are put to the test with Johan's SuperBarFlexer3000.

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12/2/2019 12:50 PM

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Zayphod

12/8/2019 12:36 PM

What happened to the Nukeproof bar which was also shown in the video and tested?

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forrestdalmer

12/5/2019 9:45 AM

Stoked on these short, informative videos. Keep up the great work!

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FilipK

12/3/2019 4:20 AM

Show format is great!

sspomer,
seeing you test bikes in snow, how do FS bikes deal with riding in sub zero conditions? I feel like im hurting all of its oily bits everytime I do. My suspension in particular (slows) way down. Less rebound helped a bit.

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jeanphilippe.simard.33

12/2/2019 5:35 PM

Anyway you could test a 31.8 Aluminium bar just to put some numbers and compare?

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sspomer

12/2/2019 6:42 PM

there was an alloy 31.8 in there - at 9:06 in the vid, race face atlas has 19mm of flex

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kev.1n

12/2/2019 7:29 PM

Think that's a typo Spomer. The Atlas bar they tested is a 35mm bar if I'm not mistaken. Either way, love this show, keep it coming guys!

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sspomer

12/2/2019 7:51 PM

ahhh, you're right.

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LLLLL

12/3/2019 1:25 AM

Yup try a alloys 280g 31.8 bar not one of the 370g ones👍

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FilipK

12/3/2019 4:14 AM

Hot topic!

I bought 31.8 (50mm rise, +vibrocore) bars because of this. So far so great.

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Nozes

12/2/2019 2:12 PM

Great stuff, guys! Keep it up!

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