I have a set of Bontrager xxx lite aerobars with basebars (and free used cables & bartape!).
*These bars are absolutely amazing, and I can gaurantee the following:
Simply looking at the bars will make you faster. You can stop training now and still make huge gains!
Before I owned these, I weighted 210lbs. After using them for a year, I've lost 45 pounds. It could have been the training, but I think it was the bars.
These areobars require no stem. They float above your steed and cut an aerodynamic swath through whatever you see in front of you.
These bars have a hidden jet propulsion system that will cause your bike to move forward even while on a trainer--use them with care.
You will PR your next three IM's, and women (or men, if that's your thing) will chase you across T2, yelling your name.
You will find all other aerobars strikingly unattractive after even glancing at these bars. If you weigh yourself each morning (admit it, you know you do--we all do), take the bars with you and you will be lighter.
Macca borrowed these bars for the 2007 Ironman Kona. After seeing them on Macca's bike before the race, Stadler was strangly sick to his stomach, Michellie seemed to have trouble with her balance, and Natasha's bike kept swerving all over the place--and the rest is history.
They are ubah light (630g), sexy, and 31.8 clamp diameter.
Here is the website pict for them [note: mine are black, not ugly white, as pictured]
http://www.bontrager.com/.../Handlebars/5820.php
I used them for a year.
I'll include both the "Team extensions (s-bends)" [Tom Demerly is screaming into a pillow as I write this] and the standard ones.
The standards extensions have some marks from my aerobottle, nothing startling
The right basebar is scratched from a 1mph fall in front of a coffee shop full of beautiful women who were mostly admiring my aerobars. They ran to my bike to help my aerobars off the ground.
Price: Either 300.00 shipped (they retail for $699; team extensions are $100.00 more) or trade straight across for your Zipp Zedtech 999 clincher wheelset. Shipping to USA only (Canadians already have too many advantages over us.)
Picts? If only I could figure out how to post on ST, I would have been banned by Slowman for filling threads with pictures of my aerobars.
*none of the above is gauranteed [sp?]. If you sue me for false advertising, know that I am a high school teacher in a suburban town in Nevada who earns slightly less than a streetsweeper and lives in a house that is only slightly larger than a subcompact car--oh wait, it is a car. However, as a teacher, I have incredible influence on your children...
** Michellie & Natasha, if you are reading this, I'm sorry for trying to be funny at your expense. Stadler...nm.
*These bars are absolutely amazing, and I can gaurantee the following:
Simply looking at the bars will make you faster. You can stop training now and still make huge gains!
Before I owned these, I weighted 210lbs. After using them for a year, I've lost 45 pounds. It could have been the training, but I think it was the bars.
These areobars require no stem. They float above your steed and cut an aerodynamic swath through whatever you see in front of you.
These bars have a hidden jet propulsion system that will cause your bike to move forward even while on a trainer--use them with care.
You will PR your next three IM's, and women (or men, if that's your thing) will chase you across T2, yelling your name.
You will find all other aerobars strikingly unattractive after even glancing at these bars. If you weigh yourself each morning (admit it, you know you do--we all do), take the bars with you and you will be lighter.
Macca borrowed these bars for the 2007 Ironman Kona. After seeing them on Macca's bike before the race, Stadler was strangly sick to his stomach, Michellie seemed to have trouble with her balance, and Natasha's bike kept swerving all over the place--and the rest is history.
They are ubah light (630g), sexy, and 31.8 clamp diameter.
Here is the website pict for them [note: mine are black, not ugly white, as pictured]
http://www.bontrager.com/.../Handlebars/5820.php
I used them for a year.
I'll include both the "Team extensions (s-bends)" [Tom Demerly is screaming into a pillow as I write this] and the standard ones.
The standards extensions have some marks from my aerobottle, nothing startling
The right basebar is scratched from a 1mph fall in front of a coffee shop full of beautiful women who were mostly admiring my aerobars. They ran to my bike to help my aerobars off the ground.
Price: Either 300.00 shipped (they retail for $699; team extensions are $100.00 more) or trade straight across for your Zipp Zedtech 999 clincher wheelset. Shipping to USA only (Canadians already have too many advantages over us.)
Picts? If only I could figure out how to post on ST, I would have been banned by Slowman for filling threads with pictures of my aerobars.
*none of the above is gauranteed [sp?]. If you sue me for false advertising, know that I am a high school teacher in a suburban town in Nevada who earns slightly less than a streetsweeper and lives in a house that is only slightly larger than a subcompact car--oh wait, it is a car. However, as a teacher, I have incredible influence on your children...
** Michellie & Natasha, if you are reading this, I'm sorry for trying to be funny at your expense. Stadler...nm.