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If you're looking for the most aero UCI legal time trial bars, these are they! (Believe it or not, that's correct grammar... The verb to be is an intransitive verb)
You're not here to read about English... The UCI has decided to enforce the 3:1 aspect ratio rule to handlebars and seatposts. This means that the flat wing section can't be more than three times the thickness. The Tula bars meets the 3:1 ratio with an amazingly low frontal area.
Tula offers both alloy and carbon extensions, but we are only stocking the carbon extensions. The extensions come in S-Bend and straight.
Tula also recently introduced the "Sporting Pod" which allows you to use conventional brake levers in lieu of the nontraditional "in line" levers. The Sporting Pods are also quite aero, and are good for technical courses which require braking while cornering. The in line levers are good for non-technical courses where you spend most of your time in the aero position.
Tula claims a 15 watt savings at 30mph with these bars, but having done some wind tunnel testing, this must be when compared to "not so aero" aero bar. Talking to John Cobb, at the Texas A&M wind tunnel, however, about the Tula bars, John did say that they "tested very very well". If you look at the frontal view, there's not much to see, and that's a good thing!
The Tula bars are also more adjustable than many of the other options. The arm rests have a huge range in terms of elbow width. If you reverse the left and right elbow brackets you can get your elbows touching (very narrow) and if you leave the brackets as they come, you can have a wide position. Using the series of pre-drilled holes, you can have any combination in between.
The extensions are also easily adjustable. You can slide them back, and you can rotate them as well. Rotating the straight bars obviously doesn't make any difference, but rotating the S-Bend bars allows you to make your hand position either closer together or further apart.
All in all, we love these bars.
You're not here to read about English... The UCI has decided to enforce the 3:1 aspect ratio rule to handlebars and seatposts. This means that the flat wing section can't be more than three times the thickness. The Tula bars meets the 3:1 ratio with an amazingly low frontal area.
Tula offers both alloy and carbon extensions, but we are only stocking the carbon extensions. The extensions come in S-Bend and straight.
Tula also recently introduced the "Sporting Pod" which allows you to use conventional brake levers in lieu of the nontraditional "in line" levers. The Sporting Pods are also quite aero, and are good for technical courses which require braking while cornering. The in line levers are good for non-technical courses where you spend most of your time in the aero position.
Tula claims a 15 watt savings at 30mph with these bars, but having done some wind tunnel testing, this must be when compared to "not so aero" aero bar. Talking to John Cobb, at the Texas A&M wind tunnel, however, about the Tula bars, John did say that they "tested very very well". If you look at the frontal view, there's not much to see, and that's a good thing!
The Tula bars are also more adjustable than many of the other options. The arm rests have a huge range in terms of elbow width. If you reverse the left and right elbow brackets you can get your elbows touching (very narrow) and if you leave the brackets as they come, you can have a wide position. Using the series of pre-drilled holes, you can have any combination in between.
The extensions are also easily adjustable. You can slide them back, and you can rotate them as well. Rotating the straight bars obviously doesn't make any difference, but rotating the S-Bend bars allows you to make your hand position either closer together or further apart.
All in all, we love these bars.
