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Oval bars
No, your eyes are not deceiving you; all Oval Concepts sponsored teams ARE riding 26.0mm "standard" sized bars and stems.
My personal (and therefore our company) philosophy is that "Oversized = Fatter, Heavier, Slower". There is no reason to add more weight or frontal area to your road
bike and the Pros know it.
The Oversized 31.8mm "standard" is a bad Italian fashion developed when the Italians did not have the efficient butting and swedging technology to offer a safe, reasonably priced, 220 gram road bar. Now that everyone has high quality, reasonably price, triple butted alloy bars made in Asia, and good companies make good carbon fibre road bars in 26.0, O/S 31.8 should die - at least for road bikes.
The strange thing is that all our sponsored teams since the company was founded, including Silence-Lotto, Slipstream and even the old Liberty Seguros squad asked for 26.0. We make both sizes as the market right now demands both sizes but I did not ask nor demand that our teams use either size.
Big Magnus Backstedt is not afraid of breaking his Oval 26.0 bars and stems on his TT bike for the Tour or his road bike for Paris-Roubaix. Robbie McEwen demands bars that are super stiff for his incredible power sprints and he loves our R701 classic bend bars in 26.0. I repeat - there is no reason to add more weight or frontal area to your road bike and the Pros know it.
Thanks for the eagle eye.
Morgan Nicol
Oval Concepts, Switzerland
Friday, June 13, 2008
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