The handlebar that outshines all others?

The shepherd's crook in the coats of arms of villages and towns in the Basel region is known as the Baslerstab. But that is now a thing of the past: the Baslerstab is now a mountain bike handlebar with a unique clamp on the fork steerer tube that puts the stem out to pasture. The handlebars were of course invented by a Basel native.

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The Basler bike manufacturer Arc8 Bicycles presents a handlebar that almost reinvents this genre with its Faserwerk component brand, which was launched in 2020. 800 millimetres wide, 35 or 50 millimetres reach, 20 millimetres rise, 6 degrees sweep upwards and 9 degrees sweep backwards, and all that with a weight of 240 grams. These are values that many downhill handlebars with 800 millimetres have, but these are still missing the stem, so to speak.

Speaking of the stem: this is already integrated into the Baslerstab handlebars, as the handlebars can be mounted directly to the steerer tube with a clamp and four bolts. The special design, which incorporates the entire carbon know-how of Basler's Jonas Müller from Arc8 Bicycles, corresponds to a stem length - Faserwerk speaks of reach - of 35 or 50 millimetres.

The innovative Basler bar handlebar will be available worldwide from August 30th via the Arc8 webshop and Arc8 dealers.

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