Bontrager XXX-Lite Carbon Aero Bar
2007-02-25 12:09 PM | Posted by Tejvan Pettinger | Permanent Link | Time Trial Equipment
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I bought these mail order, because I liked the look of the sleak carbon. The low weight is another advantage. At £300 I thought they must be pretty good.
To be honest I was quite disappointed with these time trial bars. The design suffers from a fundamental flaw. It leaves your position too high. The arm rests are positioned quite high above the bars and there is no option to change the height of the bars. To be able to get a position resembling my old tri bar height I needed to lower the stem (which fortunately I was able to do) However this wasn't enough and I need to be a stem with a 60 degree angle. This wasn't too easy to come buy and added another £50 to the cost.
They are OK now and I will continue to use them, mainly because I can't justify another outlay. However I am rather surprised that a major manufacture would make such a fundamental design flaw. I know other people have suffered from this same problem. If the arm rests were close to the tri bars it would also avoid an air pocked between your arms and the bar.
