"I won’t be buying any. I’d seriously doubt if they’re any more aero than my Vision Tech bar and clip-ons. "
Thanks for posting this. I ordered a Vision Tech base bar and clip-on last night. This is good for my buyer’s remorse. And about a tenth the cost of the bars we’re talking about here.
Bob C.
Please tell me this is a typo.
Damn Matt
I’ll sell mine now
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The irony of these bars is that they are so expensive that the majority of riders using them will not have paid a dime to do so.
They will ALL sell. Every single one of them at full price.
I never thought anyone would buy one of those freakin’ huge International pickup trucks that make the Hummer look like a roller skate by comparison.
http://www.internationaldelivers.com/site_layout/xtfamily/cxt.asp
Then my neighbor in my crappy little townhouse row purchases one. I’m throughly convinced the truck costs more than his house. The damn thing is so huge it blocks out the sun.
That’s why I’m convinced I will see that handlebar sitting on a Colnago attached to a roof rack mounted to the top of a Ferrari.
Don’t fool yourself thinking that people are really not stupid, because most likely, they are.
I never thought anyone would buy one of those freakin’ huge International pickup trucks that make the Hummer look like a roller skate by comparison
you have a way with words. very funny!
I think these babies’s are more for the TT crowd not the tri crowd.
And Blackwell/John Cobb has a set almost like them but with flat wings over the drop wings. It will be intrusting to see what they cost.
Dan…
i think they look ugly.
-mike
p.s - i think my aerobars look better, and they’re lighter, and more adjustable, and for $2500 they came with a cervelo attached to them.
so how many of these will sell at $ 2,500.00 (US) a pop?
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Damn Matt
I’ll sell mine now
Oh, geez. Are these the ones you bought?
I think some of the guys and girls using them at kona had aerobottles mounted to them.
I read on the oval website that they have tried getting them built in china, but were having trouble, but think that in 12 to 16 months they might have a cheaper version wieghing about 150 gram more.
Yes thats true. My advice is to wait this one out…
nah
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Define “waste”.
Why so much concern over who buys these and why they do so?
I guess we should just gather all the bikes in transition after the race and redistribute them based on order of finish (and size, of course, we’d take the time to make sure that people actually FIT on the bikes.) The fastest people get the coolest and most expensive bikes. All the slow people will get the crap. And while we’re at it, we’ll remove all the spacers from all the “improperly” set up cool bikes and stick them on the crap bikes. No one averaging under 23mph will be allowed to keep discs, 808s, 404s, H3s, Lightweights, Cosmic Carbones or any other cool and expensive gear. No one averaging under 20mph will be allowed to keep ANY piece of carbon (not including the rear seat stays or forks).
What an F’n hoot that would be, don’t you think? Sooner or later none of these g’damn unworthy slow f’ks would be riding cool expensive bikes. Sounds like a plan to me!
Of course what would the gear police have to pick on then?
Why so much concern over who buys these and why they do so?
no big concern on my part. people should be able to get hot bikes (if they can still feed and educate the kids, and maybe contribute to a cause or two that makes the world a better place?).
but to me, a $ 2,500.00 handlebar seems a bit crazy even on Lance’s bike.
i mean, what’s next? a $ 40,000.00 frameset?
What was the price of the BMC time trial frameset? I heard it was somewhere in the $10,000 range for just the frame because it was built with the Easton Nanotube technology.
I remember watching OLN and one of the announcers said that the Phonak squad were riding $25,000 bikes in the TTT. That’s like a quarter million dollars rolling down the tarmac.