What is a handlebar? Is it just a connection to your bike? Is it just a mechanism of steering? Or is it more? If the frame is the soul and the seatpost the heart, the handlebar is the brain. Your handlebar will influence the ride of your bike. A flexy bar will ruin that ride. Our handlebars were built to offer a high level of stiffness and do so with good looks.
Whether you are sprinting for the finish line or just the city limit sign, you want your bars to respond. When you pull on the bar, the bar should propel you forward, not hold you back.