OneUp Components launch their V2 carbon handlebar with a claimed 13 to 33% more compliance than their V1 carbon bar depending on width and rise.
OneUp’s V2 carbon bar offers just as much compliance in its 760mm width as the big 800s do, with a new patented oval section providing between 13 and 33% more vertical compliance than the outgoing bar.
Key features:
- Width: 800mm (minimum width 740mm), 760mm (minimum width 720mm)
- Rise Options: 20mm, 35mm, (In 760 and 800mm) and 50mm (in 800mm)
- Backsweep: 8°
- Upsweep: 5°
- Diameter: 35mm
- DH and Ebike rated
- 220g-265g
- £149.99 RRP
- UK.OneUpComponents
After launching hubs, pedals and their V3 dropper in the not too distant past, OneUp Components have released yet another product that ups their own high bar. It’s no lie that we’re big fans of the OneUp V1 carbon bar, and the V2 looks to keep what we loved whilst making them better.
Key to the OneUp bars is compliance without being sloppy. My V1 set are the go-to bars for many of my test bikes as a lot of 35mm bars are far too stiff and cause a lot of hand fatigue. This is not the case with the V1s. The V2s use the patented oval section construction to increase vertical compliance between 13 and 33% depending on width and rise.
Narrower bars are, by their nature, stiffer than wider bars, so OneUp made two widths, 800 and 760mm that both offer similar ride feel. Upsweep is constant at 5 degrees, with backsweep set at 8 degrees. Clamp diameter is 35mm only. The 800s come in 20, 35 and 50mm rises; the 760s are available in 20 and 35mm rise.
The new bars tested in excess of the Category-5 Gravity EFBE Tri-Test certification and are rated for downhill and ebike use too. At £149.99, they’re in the ballpark as well, but if these are any bit as good as the V1s, then they might just be the best bars going.
