Leigh Donovan’s World Championship bike of 1997 was bedecked with a blinged-out gold handlebar made by ProTaper. Now, the model are celebrating the nice outdated days releasing a restricted version Icon Gold A25 riser bar. Introduced together with it’s a new vary of carbon handlebars for Enduro, All-Mountain and XC, a spotlight of which must be the ProTaper XC Hyperlite weighing a claimed 125 grams.
ProTaper Icon Gold 25mm Riser Bar
If the ProTaper Icon Gold A25 isn’t jewellery in your bike, then I don’t know what’s. Paying homage to Leigh Donovan’s glory days, the Gold MTB Handlebar is now obtainable in restricted portions.
The attention-catching shade is the one factor new right here; the A25 is a staple in ProTaper’s lineup, sitting alongside the A12, A50 and A76 riser bars all comprised of 7050 aluminum. This 810mm bar has a 25.4mm rise, with a 4° up-sweep and a 9° back-sweep. It options reduce marks on every finish, indicating that it may be reduce as quick as 710mm. It additionally has markings additional inboard to assist out with cockpit element positioning, and extra on the clamp space to assist arrange the roll place.
The ProTaper A25 Icon Gold LE retails at $104.99 USD, simply the identical as all their different handlebars within the aluminum sequence.
ProTaper C12 and C25 Carbon Bars
New for ProTaper are the C12 and C25 Carbon Handlebars, made utilizing a Plastic Foam Lamination course of. The comparatively new manufacturing technique is alleged to be extremely environment friendly; ProTaper tells us it requires much less resin and carbon laminate as in comparison with conventional manufacturing strategies, translating right into a 15% lighter bar that’s nonetheless sturdy sufficient to be ridden on the roughest terrain by the quickest enduro riders.
As such, the ProTaper C12 (12.7mm) and C25 (25.4mm) riser bars weigh a claimed 190g at 810mm broad within the 31.8mm clamp diameter choice. Solely the C25 can be obtainable in a 35mm clamp diameter. Each bars characteristic a 4° up-sweep and an 8° back-sweep. These retail at $184.99 USD.
ProTaper XC Hyperlite Carbon Bar
ProTaper’s new Hyperlite Carbon Bar for XC weighs a claimed 125g. That’s a 31.8mm clamp diameter bar at 760mm broad. I’m unsure I do know of any lighter than that. In the event you do, drop it within the feedback. This one is made utilizing the identical Plastic Foam Lamination course of described for the C12 and C25 enduro bars. It’s flat (0° journey) and has a 9° backsweep, and retails at $184.99 USD.