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Ritchey WCS Carbon Trail Rizer handlebar


RITCHEY HAVE ALWAYS made distinctive bars and their WCS Trail Rizer is true to form. Rather than bending from the centre, the Rizer sweeps back from the front edge.

This gives a relaxed wrist angle but less rearward weight displacement than a conventional bar. Typically for Ritchey there's a lot of upsweep at the outer ends, which twists your hand/wrist position and brings your elbows up. The high tips also leave it tall for a bar with a low central rise. This all means you may need to do a lot of twisting and tweaking to find a comfortable position - and some of our testers never did. If you like the shape though, it's a structurally stiff and purposeful-feeling bar with plenty of feedback and a competitively low weight considering you get reinforced metal tips.

Weight 204g
Width 740mm
Rise 15mm
Backsweep 9°
Upsweep 6°

PRICE 190$


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