Some mfg. quoted handlebar weights Nitto 176 (aka dream) 315gr Compass Maes Parallel 25.4 superlight 289gr Ritchey wcs neoclassic 260gr Ritchey wcs carbon neoclassic 213gr
No doubt the Compass bars are fine, and I wouldn't call them heavy, but I do think there are a lot more sub 300gr bars on the market in 31.8 than 26.0 or 25.4 (I doubt that the Ritchey products are particularly unique). Also clearly there are lighter bars on the market (in 31.8) than the Compass "superlight" options. If one wants to minimize the weight of a Roadeo frame, fork, stem and bars I believe that choosing the threadles fork option would be the way to go. Ready availability of lighter bar options plays a part in that. No doubt readily available threadles stems are also lighter than quill options. E.g. a 110mm Nitto pearl is ~345gr and a 120mm Ritchey wcs 220 stem only weighs ~140gr. But the threadless stem needs to be clamped to a length of steerer tube thats not there with a quill stem setup, and I don't know how much that hunk of tube adds. On the other hand I have an old Synchros 26.0 quill stem and Ritchey bar that weigh 437gr combined. That's about 197gr (or about .43Lb) less than the Nitto Pearl stem and Compass superlight bar combined. So I'm not convinced that quill setups can't be as light at threadless, but I am convinced that sticking to whats sold all over the place they aren't. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
