Easton have a solid reputation for making quality alloy handlebars, and the Havoc 35 is no exception. Much like their other top-end alloy bars, the EA90 alloy sports an impressive strength-to-weight ratio. Couple this with their Taperwall construction and you get a very light bar that is both strong, and in this case, very wide indeed. Cold-working increases the strength of the bar, so you know this bar is going to be strong where it needs to be and light where it doesn’t. The 35mm clamp area ensures the strongest and most stable stem interface while allowing the parts of the bar that need to be the strongest to be just that. 800mm is certainly wide enough for even the most die hard of wide bar fans and will offer superb control and stability in the rough stuff. Laser etched cut down marks mean that if you don’t have the widest shoulders on the planet, then you can trim them to suit. At 300g these bars are far from heavy, lighter in fact that some aluminium trail bars on the market. These bars are only available in one rise, 20mm, but that is sensible enough for today’s downhill crowd. 9 degree back-sweep and 5 degree up-sweep is comfortable and should suit most cockpit preferences.
Price: £69.99
Silverfish 01752 843 882
www.eastoncycling.com
