Thankfully Dan isn't riding such egregious bends these days.

Thanks for the advice. I tested the selector without the riser with my previous position and it left a gap to my upper back making the set-up with riser better but I will test it again with my new position. I already used this position on open roads for a while now and in the beginning it was a little sketchy but now it's fine. Had a good result on a local race last weekend beating a guy who beat me before for the win.

I use aluminum extensions where wall thickness is no issue. Zipp advised me that for carbon extensions this could indeed be dangerous since they were not designed to be used that way.

This is good to know.

I tested different degrees of rise on the track and the steepest 50 degree one turned out to be the fastest in my case.

What extensions did you use in that picture? IA owner here looking to do that same

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How long a piece of alloy did you buy?

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either the 18" or the 24." I don't quite remember. Buy a little long and you can cut off the excess.

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Having bent a few extensions in the past I would suggest filling the tubes with sand

Any reason why?

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Thanks for the tip. How extreme a bend did you end up going with?

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The sand inside will prevent the pipe from crinkling or folding into itself. The sand provides a force from the inside to push against the walls.

Also, you'll need very secure end caps on both ends of the pipe so the sand can't escape.

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Why would we do this when USE sells extra long 30, 40, and 50 degree bend extensions?

Custom elbow cups and reach extenders on the other hand...

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Pipeing may be a bit cheaper. Not sure how much the USE extensions go for, but I spent $35 on my aluminum.

Also, complex bends :)

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i need a set of those :)

I may go a different direction with bars for 2018, in which case I can sell ya this pair.

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I have seen thjose and that's cool but I also want to bend the bar behind the clamp so I cab add an angle to my pads. The ia aerobars has the pad clamp right into the bar so bar and pad can't be separated. And the USE bars do look cool but idk... I'd need to try them out because the PDs and 3Ts I tried were weird

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I am guessing that is too much rise for me. pretty sure the zipp evo 110 is too much and not "supposed" to cut from the front :)