Need Handlebar Recommendation Please

Grendel

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I'm riding an Orbea Rise and changed out the handlebars to One Up with 35 mm rise. My 25 y/o daughter has inherited my acoustic Stumpy. She likes the higher rise bars I've put on the Orbea. I'm happy to buy her some new ones but don't want to spend much money on what is, in essence, my backup bike. Any suggestions for handlebars in the $50-$65 USD range? I love the One Up but not dropping $150 USD on new bars for the backup bike. Many thanks and happy riding!
 

irie

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I'm riding an Orbea Rise and changed out the handlebars to One Up with 35 mm rise. My 25 y/o daughter has inherited my acoustic Stumpy. She likes the higher rise bars I've put on the Orbea. I'm happy to buy her some new ones but don't want to spend much money on what is, in essence, my backup bike. Any suggestions for handlebars in the $50-$65 USD range? I love the One Up but not dropping $150 USD on new bars for the backup bike. Many thanks and happy riding!

Look at it this way, you're not spending money on your backup bike, you're spending money on your daughter.
 

KnollyBro

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Are Orbea Rise/Stumpy bars 35mm diameter?
I don't own either but the OP was asking for something similar to the OneUp bars at a fraction of the cost. The OneUp bars only come in 35mm diameter. Any ways, Aliexpress has all kinds of inexpensive 31.8 or 35mm bars that might well be made in the same factory as the Oneup bars. I am running the bars I listed on my Levo SL and riding the trails I always ride. Without knowing more about the OP's daughter's riding abilities and at the risk of being mildly sexist, cheap and possibly coming off as a tad generalizing, how different are the carbon products coming out of China compared to the ones coming out of Taiwan? Once again 🤷‍♂️.
 

Grendel

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Thanks for everyone’s help. We measured and diameter on the Stumpjumper is 31.8. Used these recommendations and found something similar in that size. Appreciate you guys pointing us in the right direction.
 

irie

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Downhillr

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I'm riding an Orbea Rise and changed out the handlebars to One Up with 35 mm rise. My 25 y/o daughter has inherited my acoustic Stumpy. She likes the higher rise bars I've put on the Orbea. I'm happy to buy her some new ones but don't want to spend much money on what is, in essence, my backup bike. Any suggestions for handlebars in the $50-$65 USD range? I love the One Up but not dropping $150 USD on new bars for the backup bike. Many thanks and happy riding!
Hard to beat OneUp’s e-bar comfort, performance, you’d probably want to cut ‘em down to 760-ish width for her… I suspect she’s worth the extra $100.00!
 

jonmat

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Has anyone snapped a carbon bar? Can you imagine what that would do to you on a rocky downhill section? You could probably bend a weak aluminium one, but that doesn't sound as bad as snapping one off.
 

sanyata

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Has anyone snapped a carbon bar? Can you imagine what that would do to you on a rocky downhill section? You could probably bend a weak aluminium one, but that doesn't sound as bad as snapping one off.
From OneUp's site about their e-carbon bar: "It also passes the stringent Zedler E-MTB Advanced Plus standard and the international DH standard (ASTM Cat. 5 Downhill)."
 

KnollyBro

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Has anyone snapped a carbon bar?
Well... the winner of Hardline 2022 snapped his carbon bars off, on the last corner at the World Cup Finals, in Val Di Sole. Jackson maybe a little faster than the average Forum rider but carbon bars will break!

Check minute 3:25 for the unfortunate incident.

 

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