I think the So Bar came out in the fall of 2018. Here's the intro from Sim Works:
https://sim-works.com/en/news/ramen-nope-i-take-so-bar They also appear to have a sleeve. But I've never owned the So Bar, so I don't know what the production model was like in practice. I had a 50 cm Rando Bar from Velo Orange that I really liked at the time the So Bar was released, and that's why I didn't buy it, but I love 50 cm + drop bars. It seems as though there is plans for a new iteration of the So Bar. Sim Works USA wrote, "These were a very popular bar that we've temporarily discontinued while we make some changes to a new version." I'm a bit of a Noodle/drop bar connoisseur myself. I currently in use the Crust Nullabar on my Monstercross, Sim Works Wild Honey on my Lightning Bolt, and Ritchey Corralitos on my Hunqapillar. I wish the Fairweather All Road 174 AA bar was offered in a wider size, but my criticism of the 54 cm Noodle is that it lost the back sweep that enjoyed in the Noodle as it got wider. Fair winds, Captain Conway Bennett 239.877.4119 On Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 5:32 PM Conway Bennett <captainconwaybenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Where did y'all read these were a lightweight Nitto Noodle? They are > listed at 380 grams which is inline with other Noodles. My understanding > was they were 50 cm wide--two cm wider than the then widest 48 cm > offering. Then, Riv went all 7 minute abs and released the 52 and 54 > centimeter variants. I recently had a conversation with someone at Riv > regarding the widest Noodles who said that Nitto is trying to deprecate the > 26.0 clamp diameter. I personally have had 46 cm Noodles, the Fairweather > 174AA short shallow Noodle in 46 cm, and this week I swapped the 54 cm ones > off my Hunqapillar in favor of the new Ritchey Corralitos bar which may be > my favorite drop bar for a longish top tube bike. I wanted to like the > Noodle, but they have too much drop for me. > > On Friday, April 26, 2024 at 5:09:51 PM UTC-5 Bill Lindsay wrote: > >> I absolutely snatch them up whenever I see them, and I never sell them. >> Buy the good stuff when it's available, before you need it. That's my >> advice. ;) >> >> BL in EC >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/UMraDupetro/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/31ce2374-192d-4669-ae08-ca657c7975d9n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/31ce2374-192d-4669-ae08-ca657c7975d9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CANYG696U0fqic8WGTosvL_H0YiNSHzPg282xDmtsjf_sCdhYrQ%40mail.gmail.com.
