[Closed] Which carbon bar, with good dampening characteristics

Road? MTB?

Mtb - not hope, not renthal, both very stiff.

Found Nukeproof Horizon quite comfortable after reading a bunch of reviews.

MTB!

30mm rise !

Not RaceFace SixC.

Crank Bros Cobalt are comically bendy but also very well damped, makes a massive difference but I'm not sure I'd want it on a big bike- work a charm on my fatbike and my old xc bike

Dampening is when something gets wet. You mean damping 🙂

35mm or 31.8?

The Oneup bar is good, it's shaped to allow damping vertically but not horizontally.

I have the oneup, dead good, got mine cheap 2nd hand on ebay, very comfy.

James

Love my Chromag Cutlass bars, have 2 sets, an older 20mm rise set which are veeeery bendy and a newer 25mm rise which are less so but still super comfy.

Thanks!

- Sorry for the bad english!

My Burgtec Trailwide is ridiculously stiff.

My Syntace Vector Carbon and also the Joystick Analogue both seem to iron out a lot more.

Also interested in this as my SixC's do seem pretty dam stiff. The new Hope 35mm's claim to be made compliant but think I might go OneUp.

The nukeproof ones are a good balance, often cheap on sale too

Not RaceFace SixC

I’ve got some 800mm wide black sixC that I’d like to move on if anyone wants to try? I don’t like the bend on them and have gone to bars with more back sweep- spank vibrocores

I found the Enve DH bar was surprisingly good at dampin vibration compared to other carbon bars i've used, better still the M6 bar, without feeling scary.

Not RaceFace SixC.

+1, my 35mm are stupid stiff (and I can't seem to get the backsweep to sit right either).

Tall_martin - what are the spank vibrocore like, are they their only 35mm option?

+1 Syntace Vector carbon, Nukeproof, Syncros

+1 not Hope, Renthal

Easton carbon XC are well boingy but they aren't around these days, it seems.

I’ve had some of the OneUp 35mm diameter ones on my Enduro/All Mountain rig for a few weeks, and they’re definitely comfier than the Bontrager Pro carbon 35’s they replaced. I found the Bontrager 35 ones were a bit more forgiving than my old 31.8 Renthals and RF SixC, but the comfiest 31.8’s I’ve ever used are the Nukeproof Horizons (& excellent for the money if you catch em in a sale).

Had some Chromag OSX 35mm on my Spesh for a while now, pretty comfy.

Easton were awesome. Supposedly replace by RaceFace but they're nothing like.

I really wish they'd bring Easton back.

+1, my 35mm are stupid stiff (and I can’t seem to get the backsweep to sit right either).

Tall_martin – what are the spank vibrocore like, are they their only 35mm option?

I’ve got 31.8mm vibrocores on my full suss and hardtail. Mostly because they were a reasonably priced option with the back sweep and up sweep I wanted with a 50mm rise ( second hand forks on the full suss and I couldn’t get the front end high enough with out a massive rise on the bars).

I like them! I can’t be sure if it’s the stuff in them, placebo, tyres, forks or whatever but the bike felt better after I put them on.

I liked them enough to actively look for them for the hardtail. I have some Danny hart trutative bars with the same sweep and upsweep and they are ace as well.

I didn’t like rental fat bar aluminum or the sixC. I think it’s mostly the bend, they are both a bit straighter.

Vibrocore gunk I suspect it’s all difference in my head. I’ve not tried the non gunk bars to actually confirm this.

Yeah, feel really straight to me - for ages i was putting it down to the fact the leap forward in 10 years worth of geometry and the associated faster speeds downhill.

I dunno, I have easton ec90sl@760mm which are ace even at the end of the 24/12 stuff and these are supposed to be the new equiv but hurt.

Really like my Syncros fraser ic carbon bar and stem combo, very comfy

I wish i'd done more research before buying Renthal carbon Fatbars. Quite stiff. Put fat DMR Deathgrips on which has made then a lot more comfortable. But wish i'd gone with something else TBH.

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Easton were awesome. Supposedly replace by RaceFace but they’re nothing like.

I really wish they’d bring Easton back.

35mm was an Easton idea, and their 35mm Havoc bars were ridicuously stiff.

I really liked my 31.8mm Sixc bar FWIW.

Were others commenting on the 35mm version?

I still won't have anything to do with 35mm bars/stems personally.

Yeah, 35mm, came on the new bike.

Were others commenting on the 35mm version?

I was. 35mm came as standard on my Occam. Otherwise, like you, I'd have avoided it completely.

35mm. Now there's a idea without any obvious merit.

Has anyone broken a 31.8 bar? In normal riding. Not from daft over-torquing breakage. Or jumping off a bus daftness. Like going an MTB ride and just breaking one?

Or is 31.8 just too flexy and we need STIFFER? Even though the 35mm manufacturers are now engineering their 35mm bars so they ride like 31.8mm bars.

I've spent today with the family. I can't take any more irrationality.

In principle, you could make a 35mm bar feel just like a 31.8 bar but be lighter. But some companies are too wedded to selling 17$ More Stiffs to do that, while so many journos and buyers will convince themselves a bar is stiff or unstiff based on nothing much anyway. So it's all kind of a total fiasco