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Housekeeping, but please post clean links, aka https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807891150787.html, not all the garbage after.
i would buy whatever is cheaper myself, but i have been buying TPU tubes for friends with a reinforced valve area as some of them complained that the tubes failed there. Bad luck, user error, idk, but you can imagine it's just plastic material, the tooling is there in china working 24/7, and they're just cranking bike tubes out all day every day, so the differences will be physics, like, indeed, if you buy a heavier one, it will have more material and be less prone to punctures or snake bikes. If you buy one with a reinforced valve area, it will be less likely to fail there. A plastic stem can easily snap in your hands if you're not careful, but weighs less than a metal one. And so on. The shrader valves themselves are probably all the same as for sure it's a different factory making them.
In my experience, always buy more than you think you need, and therefore, aim for cheap & for you to decide which features you need / dont need. They also make useful gifts to fellow riders you ride with, that way, when a puncture does happen, fewer chances of nobody having a spare tube.
I've probably bought 50 of these TPU tubes by now.
I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, but it's a sub-200g HG road cassette with only a single alloy cog, the rest are steel.
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808121037063.html
I can vouch for the Sunshine cassette Serge recommended. I am using the exact same one on my smarttrainer. Got the 105 cassette on the bike and the Sunshine one on the trainer and performance/shifting wise there's no difference. For that price it's really good value. The 105 is nice and shiny though while the Sunshine is matte (if you care about that).
What's your front chainring? personally for me 11-30 with 50-36 at front, 36-30 is good for 15% gradients for me at decent cadence.
What is your budget? You can get the real deal bars for under $290 shipped right now with the right discount code.
not identical, but this one has a similar design.
https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005003923488444.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.1.113d2b42TgQXV4&algo_pvid=e3f8aff7-c401-4934-b3f7-f99fa8a9eb74&algo_exp_id=e3f8aff7-c401-4934-b3f7-f99fa8a9eb74-0&pdp_npi=4%40dis%21EUR%21105.41%2148.49%21%21%21107.21%2149.32%21%40211b6c1717357520530093582ec0b1%2112000027479253638%21sea%21BE%210%21ABX&curPageLogUid=6gmAJJQiEKIy&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A
Out of interest/curiousity: what would be the benefit of such a handlebar? More comfort, more aero?
