Pretty sure they've just got a set of carbon cranks and a stem in the line up. Basically a freerider/AM riders version of their NEXT range. Tis all good looking stuff, though. There's another orange decal version of the stuff too.
Seen things come and i have seen things go,i will wait until the fashion band wagon slows and make up my own mind,wider bars also offer more stress,my bars get stressed enough as is with my 17 stone hanging of them.
Not liking, loving! They feel great, need rotating forward more than usual but after that the geo is basically spot on. A noticeable loss of trail buzz compared to alloy. And when you cock up a hit they flex enough to take some sting out of the forks ramp up. But not enough to make the bars feel like they've been flipped upside down.
I've got some alloy bar plugs underneath my ODI's so the bars run out 735mm, but my hands rest on the grip and not often on the locking collar (too many ruined gloves from that!). So they're true at 725mm for me. Could be wider, but otherwise no other cons!
Great to hear that they flex a little but not too much. I would rather not have the bars upside down, lol. I'll be curious to see if the ID will support my bar ends.
As strong as any DH bar. 226g is a lot for what you need, a good 20g+ over what's necessary for a bar like this. They can slap a good few extra layers of carbon on these things for overkill strength. And I suspect that's what they've done. Well, either that or they've got some damn heavy decals!
No rode them, not even fitted them yet, will be doing that either tonight or tomorrow.