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Pistonbroke

Shikra narrow flared bars - anyone tried them?
« on: April 11, 2025, 04:59:11 PM »
Shikra R Fiyer bars on Ali.
Aluminium
 360 at the hoods, 430 at the drops
Not particularly light at 340ish
Any experience out there?
Seems a good way to try narrow flared bars

https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005007927147225.html

« Last Edit: April 11, 2025, 05:21:10 PM by Pistonbroke »



zxcvbnmjm

Re: Shikra narrow flared bars - anyone tried them?
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2025, 10:27:04 AM »
I've got them! Incredibly cheap way to try narrow bars if you're on the fence. I personally think the shape is great. I'd personally prefer if they were a touch more narrow in the drops but i dont use the drops much anyway. I will probably upgrade to narrow carbon bars in the near future.

As you said, not light by any means. i'm running them on my spare bike(2010 Giant TCR) which have 25c tyres on narrow rims.

But one thing to note is theyre stiff.. very stiff.. the combination of narrow tyres/rims, alloy fork steerer and alloy bars means a lot of road buzz on my hands. I haven't ridden alloy bars in many years and i didnt realise how much difference carbon bars make! Might be good to run them on wider tyres with lower tyre pressure

Pistonbroke

Re: Shikra narrow flared bars - anyone tried them?
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2025, 11:00:49 AM »
Magic, thanks for the detailed reply, really appreciate it.
Have ordered a pair :)

zxcvbnmjm

Re: Shikra narrow flared bars - anyone tried them?
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2025, 07:45:20 AM »
No worries. Also forgot to mention theres no internal routing at all