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Testing Cheap Carbon Handlebars To Failure
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I put some of the cheapest, most questionable carbon handlebars I could find against a winch and over 1,000 lbs of force to see what it would take to cause a catastrophic failure.

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0:00 Testing the limits of cheap carbon handlebars

0:58 The reality of testing against ISO standards

3:28 Pushing premium carbon to the breaking point

6:36 AliExpress bars: A dangerous gamble?

9:36 Spotting the difference between real and fake

23:10 Testing 30-year-old vintage carbon