The Freaks topic

[tymon_tm]

so, when will bike industry go ceramic?

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[tarmackev]

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[tymon_tm]

[wheelbuilder]

Whatever happened to these imo abominations?

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[TobinHatesYou]

Whatever happened to these imo abominations?

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Canyon has several roads-less-traveled bikes now…the Grizl is way more popular. The AL Grail never got the biplane bars either.

Like you, I’ve pretty much never seen one in the wild here. Everyone’s on a Diverge, Checkpoint, Stigmata or Aspero.

[robbosmans]

I see them a lot here in Belgium strangly

[Miller]

I've also seen several Canyon Grails complete with hover bar in the wild. I know someone with one.

[HammerTime2]

Lemond. Been there, done that.

[C36]

But totally different objectives

[ms6073]

But totally different objectives

Didn't the UCI ban the use of that type of bar along with clip-ons in mass start races not too long afterwards?

[C36]

I don't recall the Scott bar to be part of a ban... they were just useless so they died alone (I always got convinced it was purely a marketing tool to display the brand.
The clip-on got banned (guess was during 96 Lugano rulebook revamp, effective in 97) after causing few crashes.

[Maddie]

No idea...

[UpFromOne]

today's version of cards-in-the-spokes, only the noise is real!

[AJS914]

Haven't seen a freak in a while. But today on the Tour de France:

Who thought those handlebars looked good?



https://imgur.com/a/J50JzQF

[UpFromOne]

Either they didn't know the acronym for Amaury Sport Organisation, or they didn't have time to finish spelling Assos.