This is what scares away people from riding bikes and most people don't want to compete in a pretentious game of price signaling that they have more expensive stuff which is really cheap chinese made carbon. bikes are not a luxury item or brand and trying to make them into that is destroying the industry. its a sport, and no handlebars or 15k bike will make you faster if you don't have the cardio. it just looks like an insecure poser trying to clout chase unless you're pogaca.
I mean this bar is bangin no doubt, but just make it in China and sell it for $700-750 and call it a day. Slight upcharge over other 1 piece bars for the enve name and they would probably sell 3x as many, I bet most people don't care if its made by some hipster in Utah.
Hey Grant, thanks for the comparison. I think the EXS aerover bar is around 320gm. It also has a ton of options to make the handlebar fit for your bike/application.
As long as Pogacar is crushing the competition the price of those bars will not go down. If he has a similar season as last year don't be surprised if Enve bumps up the price point.
I have Enve Melee and wanted to purchase this handlebar regardless of the price. But when the spec was released the narrowest one was 40drop 37top. I decided to purchase normal SES bar 40drop 35top instead. I guess Pogi wants 37top for attacking on hills where 35top is too narrow.
Enve needs to work on the cosmetic, because that's what sells. The solid flat black color makes the bar look like an AliExpress bar with Enve stickers slapped on. Some kind of silk screen graphics to break it up would do wonders.
FYI you should clearly state the Roval Rapide is used by 2 PRO TOUR teams. Soudal and Bora. they have dedicated sprinter who produce more raw wattage the POGO. Enve uses inferior design/materials than Specialized. Bonus ENVE will charge a PREMIUM price for this POS. not surprised. ENVE wheels follow the same formula .
I have no idea, I dont know why cannondale makes it so difficult lol, I have customers with those bikes always looking for alternatives but there are not that many options
All of the marketing claims that Enve can make about pros riding it are applicable to the Roval bars which are lighter and cheaper and an equal level of unobtainuim in terms of availability which is yet to be fixed almost 2 years after release. Enve seems to have the same problems though ... not sure what they're getting wrong in the whole production line but companies like Black Inc have no problems with stock. This price is just ridiculous combined with the whole release cycle being so long and the low availability it honestly feels like they didn't really care about selling any, rather this was made for their pro teams and they sell them because they have to (UCI rules and all that). What worries me more is that other companies (looking at Roval) might try to bump up their pricing like what happened in smartphones. It's funny that Enve can make Roval stuff almost look like a good value (I say that as a person who actually has the Rapide handlebars and Team CLX II wheels).
meanwhile on aliexpress these are 30 bucks. Enve should go out of business ripping off customers with chinese carbon and american stickers for thousands. such a scam company. Even tadej almost got killed by their trash enve rims in the tour when his hookless enves failed. The American bike industry needs to wake up and stop charging 5x more for chinese made carbon bikes with american stickers. Getting 5k profit for a bike is not going to last so enjoy before the bubble pops.
you have to get a spacer for it and right nwo they do not have it but i am sure you can contact them and get one made because they are the ones 3d printing it
That price for a set of handlebars is obscene and offensive to be honest. How stiff or aero could a set of bars be to demand such a price. Even if you gave a lifetime warranty it’s ridiculous. The industry is changing and I don’t’ think this kind of pricing is appreciated. Just my two cents.
Too wide really, the good brands offer a 36. With that flare they could have offered a 33/36 for some real aero gains, but this range is looking outdated. 40cm, 42cm, 44cm was what you could only get 15 years ago, enve is looking pretty 2005 here. 😂 The pricing is absurd, you could buy 3 Farsports F1 for thats price.
You could buy a Farsports F1s handlebar, which is deemed a very stiff setup, for a third of the price, and stick some $20 enve decals and still buy a nice aero set of wheels 😂
Absolutely overpriced! You can get a high quality bar from china for £230 that is just as aero, and why lighter, if you buy this bar, you are a complete mug!
Price Aside, I ride the black Inc aero bar and I think it is better. its essentially the same weight with the same 3cm flare, but is better in every other aspect. comes in more sizes, more useable tops for climbing, many computer mount options for gorpo/lights, and can be adapted to more bikes. price not aside, I also bought it second hand but brand new off a factor (owner needed different size) for $380. not only is this price insane at $1200 but being so "exclusive" or really, not stocked, it is going to be nearly impossible to find any discounts or deals out there.
shit that would be even mre expensive lol, but specialized di there part back in 2020 and moved a lot of factories to like cambodia and indonesia, so they wouldnt get hit with tarrifs shipping out of there
I just bought a Farsports F1X because EXS was sold out and I friggin love it. It is lightweight stiff and looks awesome and was only $500! No I would never entertain that price, that's just silly. It doesn't roll, it doesn't propel the bike it has no other duty that a $200 bar can do and as far as feedback bartape thickness can help that. Makes me rethink anything Envy, makes me feel they are price gouging.
And people wonder why the bike industry is tanking. Things like this for a new interest rider will send them packing. Make it out of aluminium, at least I would trust it more for big sprint action. There is a reason some big track sprinters when doing crits will run steel bars. Next thing will be carbon spokes.......LOL ! That said they are beautiful to look at and is the next shinny object to show up with on a group ride. If you have the $ to spend, all the power to you enjoy. The function part of this always come to mind, with a rider on a bike with bladed or round bars ill take the fattest stiffest bar out there. Turbulence after the bar has shown to often be beneficial. Nothing like an old rough looking rider on his steel 70s bike with maybe a good set of wheels killing it in the local group rides. Keep the vids coming , great work.
With one of the most anticiapted handlebars to have finally been released, does the new ENVE Pro Aero bar live up to the HYPE?
This is what scares away people from riding bikes and most people don't want to compete in a pretentious game of price signaling that they have more expensive stuff which is really cheap chinese made carbon. bikes are not a luxury item or brand and trying to make them into that is destroying the industry. its a sport, and no handlebars or 15k bike will make you faster if you don't have the cardio. it just looks like an insecure poser trying to clout chase unless you're pogaca.
Not an argument in the world can justify that price
B...b......but it says enve!!!! That makes it totally worth it!!!
Until you see the lighweight hpc, that makes enve a bargain😂
It’s a 500 dollar handlebar 700 hundred for the enve sticker 😂
30 dollar handlebar and $1170 sticker. no thanks
Before 100% tariffs.
500 bar and 700 for tadej
its made in usa
I mean this bar is bangin no doubt, but just make it in China and sell it for $700-750 and call it a day. Slight upcharge over other 1 piece bars for the enve name and they would probably sell 3x as many, I bet most people don't care if its made by some hipster in Utah.
They make it for way less than that
Can't. Need to preserve manufacturing in America
It is just another handlebar, but with absolutely insane, and unfounded price tag. Full stop.
Exactly 💯
Haha wild to think that those decals cost $1000. 😂
carbon handlebars all day 30 bucks on aliexpress. these companies are shameless and enve is overpriced garbage
Hey GC, when it comes to bike bling, there are guinea pigs and greedy pigs!
SUPER NICE WITH A SUPER HIGH PRICE TAG.
I Think I’ll keep my deda alanera bars 🙂👍👌
Great video content as always 👍
Hey Grant, thanks for the comparison. I think the EXS aerover bar is around 320gm. It also has a ton of options to make the handlebar fit for your bike/application.
yea thats the bar I have on my tarmac sl8 and I love it
Hey Grant, Are those your bar-ends or are you just excited to see me? lol Really nice bars though.
thats my forskin,
Its just a handlebar, a nice looking one for sure. Some pros use it. So some people will think it will make them faster.
I think the shape of this handlebar is super nice.
My dentist has those Enve bars and he still gets smoked on the group rides.
As long as Pogacar is crushing the competition the price of those bars will not go down. If he has a similar season as last year don't be surprised if Enve bumps up the price point.
exactly, honestly theu have the best marketing right now because of him, and also the bikes they are advertising it on are all high end consumers
I have Enve Melee and wanted to purchase this handlebar regardless of the price. But when the spec was released the narrowest one was 40drop 37top. I decided to purchase normal SES bar 40drop 35top instead. I guess Pogi wants 37top for attacking on hills where 35top is too narrow.
yea exactly, 35 to narrow for him he needs some leverage
Enve needs to work on the cosmetic, because that's what sells. The solid flat black color makes the bar look like an AliExpress bar with Enve stickers slapped on. Some kind of silk screen graphics to break it up would do wonders.
Aren’t these all in stock direct from Enve? You can’t even order Roval but some can be found online at Spec dealers
you order strati from enve but right now there is a backorder for them, you can order on the website but they are not getting them for a while
370 g for the handlebar with that price tag???
FYI you should clearly state the Roval Rapide is used by 2 PRO TOUR teams. Soudal and Bora. they have dedicated sprinter who produce more raw wattage the POGO. Enve uses inferior design/materials than Specialized. Bonus ENVE will charge a PREMIUM price for this POS. not surprised. ENVE wheels follow the same formula .
yea I thikn someone looking to buy this bar knows that roval is being used by specialized teams
I’ll stick with my roval rapide handlebars. Love those bars
roval is such a great bar
won't fit my C'dale Hi Mod..When they gonna standardize this shit?
I have no idea, I dont know why cannondale makes it so difficult lol, I have customers with those bikes always looking for alternatives but there are not that many options
@ hopefully the future..👍🏻
That price is steep! It doesn't mean I don't want one! It does mean it's not happening though!
Why's everyone complaining about the price for the bike equivalent of a Louis Vuitton or Ferrari?
yea no lie my wife wants an LV purse that is 2k I dont understand it at al
All of the marketing claims that Enve can make about pros riding it are applicable to the Roval bars which are lighter and cheaper and an equal level of unobtainuim in terms of availability which is yet to be fixed almost 2 years after release. Enve seems to have the same problems though ... not sure what they're getting wrong in the whole production line but companies like Black Inc have no problems with stock.
This price is just ridiculous combined with the whole release cycle being so long and the low availability it honestly feels like they didn't really care about selling any, rather this was made for their pro teams and they sell them because they have to (UCI rules and all that). What worries me more is that other companies (looking at Roval) might try to bump up their pricing like what happened in smartphones. It's funny that Enve can make Roval stuff almost look like a good value (I say that as a person who actually has the Rapide handlebars and Team CLX II wheels).
Agree seems like UCI rule that’s why they are available
meanwhile on aliexpress these are 30 bucks. Enve should go out of business ripping off customers with chinese carbon and american stickers for thousands. such a scam company. Even tadej almost got killed by their trash enve rims in the tour when his hookless enves failed. The American bike industry needs to wake up and stop charging 5x more for chinese made carbon bikes with american stickers. Getting 5k profit for a bike is not going to last so enjoy before the bubble pops.
People love to hate Enve 😂
there an easy target
Please do a side by side with an Asian brand selling the same bars for $200 and explain to us the difference. Thanks.
hahahah it would be hard to do so, china right now is coming out with some heat
So many quality brands these days that it makes absolutely zero sense to spend that kind of money.
its the name and the rider, and the brand they have always priced there 1 piece abrs that high
Will it work with the 2020 venge ?
you have to get a spacer for it and right nwo they do not have it but i am sure you can contact them and get one made because they are the ones 3d printing it
Paying for Tadej's salary
hahahahha
Heavy ; overpriced ; ugly. In this case, you don't have to pick two...you get all three...🙃
What a shit of a handlebar. For that price you can buy a darimo handlebar with half the weight
GEMINI ÄLZAIR: 1250€ 220g or 310g version, handmade in Barcelona. Looks SUBLIME with gloss/matte option. Looks way way better than the ENVE
Indeed those are amazing!
I’m not a big fannof the square edges on their stem partnof the one piece
yea I saw those bars I reached out to them and the bars look beautiful
I bought this handlebar, but returned as I ultimately couldn't justify the cost.
no, they spent so long getting it to market that life moved on that the V1RS superseded it and they didn't use it in the integration
yea I Know lol I didnt even think of that but also this is going to be sold for all bikes not just colnago
When Enve declares bankruptcy everyone will know why.
They can have it , $1200 is ridiculous, don't see why would anyone pay that kind of cash for a handlebar
Enve products are always expensive even if it's made in the USA. Triple the Price of EXS
its made in china stickered in usa
shame on the price.
yea I wish it was lower tbh
I’d prefer Dario 😊
I’m going to have to take a second mortgage ?
yes lol
That price for a set of handlebars is obscene and offensive to be honest. How stiff or aero could a set of bars be to demand such a price. Even if you gave a lifetime warranty it’s ridiculous. The industry is changing and I don’t’ think this kind of pricing is appreciated. Just my two cents.
$1,200. Whoa. That’s too steep for a handlebar.
If not at the bottom, very near in components that will add next to nothing in your performance…
yea I know its more of a flex but also a really nice bar if you are upgrading to a 1 piece bar and stem
@ agreed, they do make nice equipment for sure.
$1,200 for handlebars? Wtf man
No.
I could buy two of my current bike for the price of this single handlebar. Wow.
lmao I understand
More pricey trinkets for your cycling poser dentist.
This is too cheap to be true 😅
Those handle bars make me a little uncomfortable. See what I'm saying
Ludicrously expensive!
Too wide really, the good brands offer a 36. With that flare they could have offered a 33/36 for some real aero gains, but this range is looking outdated. 40cm, 42cm, 44cm was what you could only get 15 years ago, enve is looking pretty 2005 here. 😂
The pricing is absurd, you could buy 3 Farsports F1 for thats price.
You could buy a Farsports F1s handlebar, which is deemed a very stiff setup, for a third of the price, and stick some $20 enve decals and still buy a nice aero set of wheels 😂
Absolutely overpriced! You can get a high quality bar from china for £230 that is just as aero, and why lighter, if you buy this bar, you are a complete mug!
I’d rather keep my money in the USA
Price Aside, I ride the black Inc aero bar and I think it is better. its essentially the same weight with the same 3cm flare, but is better in every other aspect. comes in more sizes, more useable tops for climbing, many computer mount options for gorpo/lights, and can be adapted to more bikes.
price not aside, I also bought it second hand but brand new off a factor (owner needed different size) for $380. not only is this price insane at $1200 but being so "exclusive" or really, not stocked, it is going to be nearly impossible to find any discounts or deals out there.
Yasssssss super Nice ❤
Scam
No. Hell no. No no no no no.
lmao
There is Pogacar, and there is Poor Gar Char!
No handle bar can make the two equal . . . ever!
Dumb as fuck - roval is around 600$ how do you even justify double the price?
Luxury name branding
yea super high end brand with lifetime warranty and also made in usa and also the number 1 rider in the world riding it, thats all
Just another overpriced handlebars. I could buy a whole new bike for that price omg, bike industry is dumb with these pricetags
I think Trump will bring Trek and specialized back to the USA.
shit that would be even mre expensive lol, but specialized di there part back in 2020 and moved a lot of factories to like cambodia and indonesia, so they wouldnt get hit with tarrifs shipping out of there
Total poser handlebar pairs nice with all the poser aero bikes at the cafe rides, $1200 no
Your jealousy is showing.
I would never buy these, but why care so much about how people spend their own money?
yea it is expensive but I would love to own a v4rs with this bar opne day lol
over priced AF
Predictable comments section from no one who owns or could afford Enve anything. They’ll sell every one of them, btw.
So it’s for rich idiots, got it.
so only rich ENVE owners can comment here?
I just bought a Farsports F1X because EXS was sold out and I friggin love it. It is lightweight stiff and looks awesome and was only $500! No I would never entertain that price, that's just silly. It doesn't roll, it doesn't propel the bike it has no other duty that a $200 bar can do and as far as feedback bartape thickness can help that. Makes me rethink anything Envy, makes me feel they are price gouging.
And people wonder why the bike industry is tanking. Things like this for a new interest rider will send them packing. Make it out of aluminium, at least I would trust it more for big sprint action. There is a reason some big track sprinters when doing crits will run steel bars. Next thing will be carbon spokes.......LOL ! That said they are beautiful to look at and is the next shinny object to show up with on a group ride. If you have the $ to spend, all the power to you enjoy. The function part of this always come to mind, with a rider on a bike with bladed or round bars ill take the fattest stiffest bar out there. Turbulence after the bar has shown to often be beneficial. Nothing like an old rough looking rider on his steel 70s bike with maybe a good set of wheels killing it in the local group rides. Keep the vids coming , great work.
This isn't for you. Just buy cheaper aluminum bars if that's what you want.