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[Closed] Can someone explain this handlebar to me?

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[url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/3t-extendo-team-stealth-mtb-flat-handlebar/rp-prod82278 ]12 degree back 0 up?[/url]

It looks like a riser to me, is it not?

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Posted : 22/10/2015 8:07 pm
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My guess it's the wrong photo for the product


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:09 pm
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Its a flat bar with 12 degrees sweep back as opposed to a bar that lifts up and sweeps.

With some aort of bollocks about eccentricityattached.

I think.


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:12 pm
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In the guff it says -

It’s aimed at riders who need extra steering leverage to tackle extreme terrain. At 225g, EXTENDO TEAM is light for such a broad, strong handlebar.


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:14 pm
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Thanks all, but if you go on the company website I cant find a flatbar with a 12 degree sweep?
I don't want to order it to see if I have to send it back, that just wastes everyone's time & money.

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Posted : 22/10/2015 8:21 pm
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That will be because it's NOS, so no longer listed on the 3T website.


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:31 pm
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aracer, so you think it is the wrong photo attached to an old product?

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Posted : 22/10/2015 8:35 pm
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It is a 2014 model, see the archive.org link. Also, the 40% rebate kind of gives it away.


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:36 pm
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With some aort of bollocks about eccentricityattached.

Looks like a flat bar but the clamping area is offset so the ends rise or fall as you rotate it in the stem.


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:36 pm
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But they would do that if it was concentric?


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:37 pm
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[quote=2unfit2ride ]aracer, so you think it is the wrong photo attached to an old product?
Cheers.

No, it looks like the right photo for the described product. As above, it is a flat bar - it's clear looking at the current 3T website what their riser bars look like, and it doesn't look like one.


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:38 pm
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[quote=joshvegas ]But they would do that if it was concentric?

Yes, but slightly less. TBH on that bar the eccentricity only makes a tiny difference, so it is marketing BS, but on a bar with less sweep the difference would be more significant.


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:40 pm
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otsdr, thanks for the link, you posted seconds before I hit reply, but to you & everyone else, it still looks like a riser bar to me, any riser bar rotated back enough would surely become 0 rise?


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:41 pm
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The grips would end up pointing down.


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:47 pm
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Not exactly. Firstly because riser bars still have backsweep. Which means that when you rotate them back so that the ends of the bars are level with the stem, that backsweep turns into downsweep. Also if you rotated a riser bar back you have a backwards offset, which would require you to have a longer stem.

That really is a flat bar, and there really is a difference from a riser bar.


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 8:48 pm
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Ok , but my definition of a 12 degree flat bar looks like [url=http://]this[/url], a totally different shape?


 
Posted : 22/10/2015 9:39 pm

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