Why Bamboo Handlebars FLEX, but don’t BREAK
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- A unique approach to bicycle comfort and compliance! These bamboo handlebars from Passchier offer some serious flex and comfort, but are strong enough to tackle the chunk. Strength does NOT equal stiffness!
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Working near the man responsible for these and having samples and seconds dropped in to us is super cool. I could chat with him for hours, certainly a smart cookie and his ISO testing is most excellent. The information and figures he can provide us for minor changes in laminates gives me absolutely no concerns for the strength of these handlebars. He has even ridden them in places they're not recommended for (our local equivalent to Whistler), painted so that nobody notices and gets any ideas.
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😆 shoot, forgot to wear my science hat.
Best explanation I’ve seen for bamboo components. I used to sell fatigue test frames! Kinda cool to completely follow along
Good content - interesting!
Delivered at an excellent pace, not too slow. Doesn’t drag on
Neat! I appreciate the technical info
Id love to see som ISO testing on it, would be fairly easy to list the yeild strength for the bars. Probably a sizable range of values due to variability in the bamboo, but some sort of minimum strength would be nice.
Yea. Although ISO testing is primarily for fatigue testing.
natural bamboo is used for scaffolding in many parts of the world, so i wouldn’t be too worried about raw strength, and they’re using an engineered bamboo material anyway. plywood might be a better analogy, and the plywood subfloor holding me up right now seems fine.
Nice bars sir 👍
Yaayyy The video’s normal now 🎉🎉
Whew.. stressful morning 😆
@@TheBikeSauce no worries, it was actually kind of an interesting situation to be honest
Voting for bamboo drop bars! 👍🏻
ooh interesting
Oh yes!
My wife has a set of these flat bars on her Trek X Caliber mtb and they are amazing. I prefer drop bars and I've been hanging out to see if Passchier come out with some. I'll be their 1st customer if they do!
hoo boy, the 360 view confused my considerably :D - Thought I was meant to illustrate the flexiness.
As always, as a fellow scientist, I appreciate your approach! Very nice!
I had it exporting at vr at first.. busy morning 😆
It'd be interesting to see a comparison between these and something like the OneUp Carbon bars, which is also supposedly engineered with some flex in it to soak up chatter.
The one ups are nice too (I run them on my mtb), but nowhere near as much compliance as the bamboo
@@TheBikeSauce I had a chat with the manufacturer at a recent expo. He said that compliance can be had in many materials but that the vibration absorption and damping is far superior in bamboo vs carbon
Hey reupload without the trip, great. Still liking those handlebars especially the looks and color. But at that price it's nothing for me, yet.
Haha yea, busy morning.. 😆
Interesting video, isn’t there a company making bikes out of bamboo, I’ve forgotten who it was 🤔
There are a couple of small African businesses doing frames. Boogaali, a Ugandan maker did my gravel frame. 8000 miles and counting. A very lovely ride too!
BOO bicycles in Ft Collins, Co
Gimme!.. in the bullhorn variety
That would be awesome
Is there any data on stress fatigue?
nothing on fatigue stress, but most companies dont publish that data either.
I would roll this bar on a bamboo frame bike
Please put these bars on a bike with a suspension stem and suspension fork, tell us what that’s like 😅
Shame it’s a carbon fibre clamp sleeve. Any *technical* reason why this would be better than aluminium (besides weight?) I personally avoid carbon parts for a whole bunch of reasons…
$200 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀