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handlebar
On 1/11/2018 12:31 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 1/11/2018 9:13 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 1/11/2018 5:57 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?Â* Chances are it doesn't offer full Joergian-strength cromo bars either. Here in America, aluminum seems to be the default material for handlebars on any adult bike above department store quality. Steel handlebars are typically found on budget bikes. There are some steel handlebars available for higher quality bikes, but I don't recall ever seeing or hearing of a set made of stainless steel. The aluminum upright bars I bought came from a bike shop in a major city selling a wide variety of good bikes, including (for example) a very sweet Bianchi city bike that I test-rode. The bars cost me $7 on sale. They have been on the city bike I built for perhaps five years now. I've not replaced them this season or any other season, and I doubt I ever will; and I very much doubt that they'll kill me. A few shapes I remember Utopia offers, or at least used to offer, in stainless steel aren't in ergotec's 2018 issue.Â* They might slowly get replaced by "MAS-Nb" steel.Â* But it still shows some. Jute claimed aluminum ones were "specialty items." Which are more common in the catalog - stainless steel or aluminum? British made Raleigh Sports had the original chromed steel North Road handlebar and the Raleigh Sprite came with the All Rounder shape also in chromed steel. These were both high volume popular models and much copied for many years after their demise. But only very rarely in _stainless_ steel, AFAIK. And it raises the question: Why would someone choose to manufacture or to buy a _stainless_ steel handlebar? What would be the practical advantage over chromed steel? -- - Frank Krygowski |
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