Thomson Cyclo-Cross Handlebar Ø31.8mm 420mm Carbon - Black

For Cyclocross, Thomson presents the Katie Compton's Signature ‘cross bar.
The Thomson Katie brings her multiple championships, European racing
and Olympic experience, to give you a bar built her own way, especially to use for cross.
It’s the natural transition from your Thomson road bar for the ‘cross season.
Twin flats on the bottom of the bar, allow taping your housing,
to create a round bar when wrapped.
The top profile is as round and as wide as possible.
This is the carbon fiber, cyclocross handlebar is built to take all the season can dish out.
This allows auxiliary brake levers to be safely used
and still leaves lots of room for your hands.
Certified to EN, tested to DIN+.

The lay up uses 3 different fiber types, with different tensile strengths and tensile modulus,
including high strength carbon fiber.
This helps allocate stiffness and flex when needed.

All carbon fiber is produced by Toray
and uses tailor-made Nano Epoxy Resin for very high impact resistance.
Toray is the main supplier of carbon fiber for Boeing and Airbus airplanes.

Both the Road and Cross bar are made in one piece,
not three pieces co-molded and glued together.
The bars are molded over an EPS mandrel to avoid wrinkles inside the layup during molding.
Most other bars are molded over inflatable nylon bladders.

Reach for the Road bike and ‘Cross bars is the same at 78.5 mm.
Drop is proportional.
The ‘cross drop is: 42 cm 133 mm (center to center).
1.5K woven impact ends help prevent damage to unidirectional fibers from impact.