Ultra-lightweight minimal tribars by ChristofSchwiening

Last crawled date: 4 years, 5 months ago

These are a bit of an experiment. They are the first steps in an attempt to make some ultra-lightweight tribars for a road bike. When finished they will just click into place and provide just enough control to adopt an aero-position on a road bike. They should come in at less than 100g - but, I won't know for sure until I destruction test a few different fill densities. At the moment they are more concept than functionality. But, tribars for about 1/100th of the normal price and lighter than anything else out there - what is there not to like about that!
They are designed to feed under the stem (from the back) and go over the handlebars. The stem provides the resistance to stop them pivoting so there is no need for major clamps on the handlebars. Because there is nothing going out behind the stem there is no chance of catch legs or knees on them when climbing. They are designed for oversize (31.8mm) diameter bars....
19th July
I have attached photos of the latest version - 53g plus two cable ties. At 8% rectilinear fill they consume about £1 of PLA. So, about 1/10th of the weight of the lightest tribars and at most 1/100th of the cost. I am not claiming that makes them 1000 times better than the commercial alternative.....but, it is a nice example of what can be done with a relatively cheap consumer printer (Ormerod).