Shaving almost a pound off my utility basket bike: There aren't a lot of choices when it comes to off the shelf alloy moto bars with decent rise. I didn't see these Cannondale Cruise Control bars when I went looking for aluminum moto bars, only the Origin 8 sendy bars, which are as far as I can tell just rebranded motorcycle bars with their heavy, thick gauge tubing. So there wasn't much point buying them when I had some actual motorcycle bars hanging around in the garage. 22.2 bars would look silly (I thought) with almost 10mm shims in a 31.8 stem, so chunky BMX stem in was. This is a bike that I need to manhandle around and carry up stairs, and I eventually admitted it could really lose a little weight. So, when I found the Cannondale bars in bicycle gauge tubing I bought some, and decided to do a weight check before building the bike back up. In hindsight, steel moto bars like the Surly are actually lighter than actual motorcycle bars.
by Vin_du_toilette
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OMG, that top bar is so thick, that had to hurt a little bit to ride anything rougher than a basketball court.