davidphilips
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Seen this on Utube about carbon bars, thought it interesting?
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2Dxm8PqnOlk
View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2Dxm8PqnOlk
Stopped using carbon bars a long time ago?
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cougie uk
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ColinJ
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I was going to say that either he lives by the sea, or he has been doing a lot of very hard turbo sessions. Apparently, it WAS due to years of turbo use.
I did one very hard winter on my first turbo trainer, which had a fan resistance unit attached to a very solid metal frame. The front wheel was removed and the fork clipped into the frame. My sweat managed to corrode through that girder-like frame in just 3 months! (I wiped the bike and turbo down after every session, but I had not realised that the sweat was running down to the underside of the turbo frame, and rotting it out of sight of me.)
cougie uk
Guru
That's both scary and impressive.
Must admit I use my CF bars and bike on the turbo but they've been cling filmed and toweled for protection too.
I'm definitely not working as hard as you did !
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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It was the winter of my big relationship bust-up!
After a few nights feeling very sorry for myself and drinking myself stupid, I decided that the booze had to go...
I stopped drinking, and did crazily hard turbo sessions as often as my body could take them. I'd get so knackered that I had to literally crawl up the stairs to my post-session baths.
It worked though. I lost over 4 stone in weight that winter, and got to my fittest ever by the following summer! Unfortunately, it didn't last... I slipped into old habits over the following years and got fat and unfit again.
Cycleops
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Can't think of a single reason I'd use carbon bars.
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davidphilips
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Perhaps alloy bars might/would be better even as used like this, storage solutions? TBH have been meaning to make something like this for a wile now.
https://www.rei.com/blog/cycle/diy-reuse-old-handlebars-to-create-a-hanging-bike-rack
matticus
Guru
Stone soup. "Just take a pair of old handlebars ... "
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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Both are extreme incidents. I'm using 30 plus year old alloy bars on both road bikes, and same age stems. Not dead yet.
Folk are using carbon bars MTB'ing, so they can't be that bad. User error usually, or cheaply made ones.
Folk are using carbon bars MTB'ing, so they can't be that bad. User error usually, or cheaply made ones.
Probably better to just replace the tape periodically and give it a good clean. That mess didn't happen overnight.
PaulSB
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So the YouTuber hasn't changed his bar tape in 14 years. I'm lucky to get 12 months out of mine and my gloves. He can't do many sessions on that.
matticus
Guru
If you think it will hold your weight, sure!
You just have to hang onto the bars long enough to stop.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Touchwood I've only seen carbon fail once (a bar or stem I cant recall) and that was down here, close to the bottom (about a 1/5 to go before the sharp and narrow but curving left turn over the bridge https://goo.gl/maps/nsDYZzMp8USWR8nr8 . Give him his due he held it and still descended faster than me 
