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Old 07-20-22, 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Camilo

I haven't been afflicted by weight-weenieism for a few years but IIRC, you can get inexpensive aluminum road bars weighting, say, 300 grams, and good CF bars aren't much lighter than 200 grams?
100 gram reduction would be significant - approx 33% reduction

100 gram weight reduction for $100 (extra) - it can be a challenge to find weight reduction like this

and many wide alloy riser bars are over 300 grams
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