The carbon Alanera handlebar was one of many first 1-piece built-in cockpits within the professional peloton, and now a lighter Deda Alanera RS has been reshaped to be sooner and extra comfy. The modifications are refined however impactful. An all-new aero form to the tops guarantees to enhance each aerodynamics and rider consolation. And whereas cables totally disappear inside for contemporary street compatibility, Deda barely tweaks the Alanera RS’s ergonomics with a little bit of flare and barely much less drop…
Deda Alanera RS 1-piece carbon handlebar cockpit
At first look, it nonetheless seems to be quite a bit just like the unique Alanera handlebar + stem combo that we noticed again in 2017. And the identical cockpit Tadej Pogačar gained the Tour on. However there actually are a number of vital enhancements, nearly hidden in plain sight. The most important distinction comes within the reshaped prime – a crucial spot the place aerodynamics and rider ergonomics meet.
Extra aero, extra cozy, and lighter too!
The brand new Alanera RS contains a 5mm thinner profile for its tops, adopting a truncated aerofoil form as an alternative of the earlier angular quadrilateral.
Deda says that reshaping alone saves 3.9W at 40 km/h (as much as a 15.5W discount at 60 km/h race speeds)!
Apart from a form extra comfy to wrap a hand round up prime, Deda provides the Alanera RS handlebars 6° of flare to its drops to permit more room on your forearms once you dash. That flare, plus 10° of UCI allowable shifter inclination means riders can flip these levers in a bit extra for an aero hand place.
Deda redesigned a flatter up to date Speedy Hand Motion EVO form for a smoother transition out of your hoods to the tops, with higher forearm help. And lastly, bar drop decreases by 10mm to 120mm, sliding them into the extra common compact class.
All that, and Deda says the up to date “full monocoque” one-piece carbon development with no bonded sections resulted in a easy inside floor for simple cable routing, a 6% discount in weight, and best-in-class stiffness-to-weight ratio.
Tech specs
- Materials: full monocoque UD carbon development
- {Hardware}: black PVD titanium bolts
- Curve form: RHM (Speedy Hand Motion) EVO
- Attain: 75mm
- Drop: 120 mm
- Flare: 6° (+2.5cm wider on the ends)
- Bar widths: 40, 42 & 44cm (measured exterior to exterior)
- Stem angle: -8°
- Stem lengths: 80, 90, 100, 110, 120 & 130mm (140mm on demand)
- Steerer dimension: 1.125″ (28.6mm)
- Cable routing: DCR full inside; digital just for spherical steerers, or 1x mechanical with a D-shaped steerer
- Clamp peak: 43.5 mm
- Claimed weight: 340g (110×42)
- GPS mount: 36g direct out-front mount for Garmin/Wahoo, Bryton & GoPro, included
Deda Alanera RS – Pricing, choices & availability
The brand new 1-piece carbon Deda Alanera RS built-in cockpit is offered now for 795€ not together with VAT (so determine ~950€ with tax). Whereas that’s clearly wildly costly, it’s the similar value because the earlier mannequin. And it contains the bar, an identical aero prime cap, headset spacers, 2 DCR headset covers (for 46 & 56mm headtubes), and the out-front laptop mount.
Formally, 13 customary sizes can be found with the most well-liked mixture of 6 stem lengths & 3 bar widths. However all dimension combos are doable on demand, in addition to an extended 140mm stem model.
