On 1/11/2018 12:31 PM, sms wrote:
On 1/11/2018 2:57 AM, Sepp Ruf wrote:
Andre Jute wrote:
On Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 4:46:01 PM UTC, Frank Krygowski wrote:

But unlike aluminum ones, stainless steel bars are
very rare, if not nonexistent.

Just because your weight-weenie, replace after one season or die,
racer LBS
doesn't carry them?* Chances are it doesn't offer full Joergian-strength
cromo bars either.

I chuckled at your "non-existent" stainless steel bars. It's so dumb,
nobody will believe it. I have two stainless steel handlebars on
bikes in
the loft, and probably more in boxes of components. One I chose from the
Humpert catalogue to be fitted to my Utopia Kranich as a temporary
measure
just to see how I liked something different from my normal North Road
Bars.
In Europe Humpert bars are the mainstream for upscale bikes, and they're
nutters for testing components. If they list stainless bars, you may be
absolutely certain there is nothing wrong with stainless bars.

You should check your facts, Franki-boy.
Andre Jute
Always happy to help

PS The Humpert catalogue also comes in English

http://ergotec.de/files/service/downloads/Humpert-Katalog_2018.pdf

A few shapes I remember Utopia offers, or at least used to offer, in
stainless steel aren't in ergotec's 2018 issue.* They might slowly get
replaced by "MAS-Nb" steel.* But it still shows some.

You can also order stainless steel bars via Aliexpress, the consumer
branch of Alibaba:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Bicycle-stainless-steel-Arcuate-one-shaped-handlebar-retro-Vintage-bike-handlebar-city-commuter-recreational-old-cycling/32730342044.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Bicycle-stainless-steel-swallow-shaped-handlebar-retro-Vintage-bike-handlebar-city-commuter-recreational-old-bar/32654022918.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Bicycle-Accessories-stainless-steel-U-shaped-handlebar-bend-to-the-retro-Vintage-bike-handlebar-city-commuter/32653525372.html

I think there's only a very short list of things one _cannot_ buy from
China.

The presence of an item on Ali Express doesn't indicate its popularity,
let alone its value.


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- Frank Krygowski