Handlebars!
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You’re right, I feel foolish now. Am just going to have MTFU; have bought a set of these to get back my focus.
2manyoranges
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35mm lurks here and there to make us stumble…when buying stems and bars…
We’ve got a couple. When 35mm diameter first poked its head above the parapet (2012 ish) see….
https://www.bikeradar.com/features/...in-the-making/?image=2&type=gallery&gallery=1
…it was touted as ‘stiffer, lighter, stronger (crunchier, lovelier, fluffier etc etc)’... usual marketing stuff which combines some reality and much guff. Of course all that fuss about diameter ignored some far more important aspects of bar selection…the physiological issues of sweep, rise, etc. SQ Labs are on the ball now regarding sweep and rise - and having played with all bar diameters (and still running bikes with everything from skinny 22.2 to 35mm) the ‘human interface‘ factors are by far the more important ones. A super-stiff bar of the wrong width, with the wrong rise and the wrong sweep is …. Wrong… and no amount of diameter will make up for that. I welcome SQ Labs’ 12 deg sweep bars but boy are they expensive just for a different bend in a bar...
We installed 35mm Easton Havoc (850 cut to 760 ish) on one DH bike and one roughty tufty hardtail. Frankly, you were hard pushed to feel the difference between 31.6 and 35.0 - change grips from thin to thick and there was a far more marked change in respect of vibration. And were Havocs lighter than Nukeproof carbon and Renthal alloy at the same price point? No.
In the real world of our workshop and our riding, 35mm is just a painful variation of standard to no good effect. Oh…and when you play it like a trumpet it sounds the same as 31.6…so that’s one important thing out of the way…
We’ve got a couple. When 35mm diameter first poked its head above the parapet (2012 ish) see….
https://www.bikeradar.com/features/...in-the-making/?image=2&type=gallery&gallery=1
…it was touted as ‘stiffer, lighter, stronger (crunchier, lovelier, fluffier etc etc)’... usual marketing stuff which combines some reality and much guff. Of course all that fuss about diameter ignored some far more important aspects of bar selection…the physiological issues of sweep, rise, etc. SQ Labs are on the ball now regarding sweep and rise - and having played with all bar diameters (and still running bikes with everything from skinny 22.2 to 35mm) the ‘human interface‘ factors are by far the more important ones. A super-stiff bar of the wrong width, with the wrong rise and the wrong sweep is …. Wrong… and no amount of diameter will make up for that. I welcome SQ Labs’ 12 deg sweep bars but boy are they expensive just for a different bend in a bar...
We installed 35mm Easton Havoc (850 cut to 760 ish) on one DH bike and one roughty tufty hardtail. Frankly, you were hard pushed to feel the difference between 31.6 and 35.0 - change grips from thin to thick and there was a far more marked change in respect of vibration. And were Havocs lighter than Nukeproof carbon and Renthal alloy at the same price point? No.
In the real world of our workshop and our riding, 35mm is just a painful variation of standard to no good effect. Oh…and when you play it like a trumpet it sounds the same as 31.6…so that’s one important thing out of the way…
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Spudalumps
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@2manyoranges thanks 
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Oh…and when you play it like a trumpet it sounds the same as 31.6…so that’s one important thing out of the way…
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made me laugh!
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Oh…and when you play it like a trumpet it sounds the same as 31.6…so that’s one important thing out of the way…
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made me laugh!
novocaine
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pitch is dependent on the length, attenuation is related to the diameter. maybe run it over the dB meter.
I'm sure someone's misses has one of these in the bedside drawer.
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...so thats what its for!
novocaine
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Automatic cocktail stirrer.
No idea why my missus has it by the bed, bbut who am i to argue. She must make massive cocktails because its at least 10".
