Comments on: World’s most aero UCI legal bars?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:50:56 +0000

Has there been any progress on these bars? I was hoping to see the final prototype.

By: max

max — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:36:20 +0000

cool project. looks similar to vision trimax integrated. what about chopping the inner half off each arm rest? or, buy the carbon arm rests from an easton attack and bolt them onto the tops of your wings and/or extensions.

i would like to see a design which fully integrates the arm rests into the base bar (instead of having them surface mounted). this would force the uci to accept a deeper cross section as the arm rests are a structural necessity, no?

By: Nico

Nico — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:00:30 +0000

Update: I’ve raced with this first version 5 times so far this year and they actually feel better than I thought they would. It’s not a problem at all to control the bike, even on sharp corners, despite the super narrow bars. Climbing out of the saddle is where they don’t really work, so as long as the course doesn’t have many steep hills, they work great. I also tend to be more efficient remaining in my aero bars while climbing so I don’t see this as much of an issue.

Small things that bother me are:
1) The extensions are so close that it’s hard for me to see my PowerTap head, which I have mounted between my forearms.
2) My elbows occasionally bump into the stem part of the bars, which is a little higher than it needs to be.
3) We didn’t drill a hole for the front brake cable to exit the wings on the bottom, rather it comes out of the rear of the wing. This makes for an awkward cable route. This will only take 20 min to rectify, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

I’m planning on filing the welds down more, to make the bars smoother, drilling a new front brake cable exit hole, and having them anodized or painted. And I’m working on the drawings for V2, which I hope to have done in a few months.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:51:06 +0000

Any news on this project? New pics on the bike?

By: rusty at feepish

rusty at feepish — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:08:53 +0000

the uscf has a minimum width for brake hoods.

pretty specifically does not apply to your bars. because they aren’t used in a road event and because of the lack of hoods.

1M1d

…attachments that point upward on the brakehoods of road bicycles are allowed if the distance between them is greater than 25 cm…

nice bars.

By: Francis

Francis — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:24:15 +0000

Awesome project !

—Francis

By: Mike Creed

Mike Creed — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:35:15 +0000

I’d love to get a pair made.

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:30:21 +0000

I sure hope these don’t bring about an early funeral! These are prototype bars — I’m definitely going to test them out and make sure I feel safe with them before I go do a technical TT course. And it’s possible that I’ll decide they are too narrow, and I’ll either make a wider set, or I’ll reserve them for non-technical races. But from my previous experience, having really narrow bars doesn’t make handling the bike difficult, rather it makes riding out of the saddle difficult. Until I get out on the road with these, I’m just speculating.

By: jorj

jorj — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:43:28 +0000

Indeed, I googled it after I said that too. UK CTT regulation is 35cm, but the UCI don’t seem to be specific. I wouldn’t fancy 28cm if there is any technical riding to do, but hey, it’s your funeral

By: djconnel

djconnel — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:41:17 +0000

I checked both UCI and USAC rules, and could find no explicit minimum width (only a maximum, which isn’t an issue).