Simply 10 months after they debuted their wildly costly $1200 SES AR bar, and now ENVE has one other one simply as costly known as the SES Aero Professional bar. It incorporates a completely different design for angled-in hoods, completely different flare, narrower sizes, and much more built-in cable routing. ENVE teased us earlier this yr that we may experience the identical cockpit as Tadej Pogačar, however now we lastly can, so long as our pocketbooks can deal with it…
ENVE SES Aero Professional $1200 1-piece carbon highway cockpit
When ENVE launched the $1200 AR bar again in January, they advised that was the bar they developed for Pogačar. Properly kind of.
In actuality, ENVE stated then that Pogi’s bar was nonetheless pro-only for some time longer. We’d really seen all of it the way in which again two summers in the past. Now you will get one too, to get that very same narrower hand place, however with comfy room on your wrists within the drops and angled-in hoods.
“In the case of efficiency, having a stiff however comfy handlebar is actually vital. For those who spend so many hours within the saddle like I do, then any contact level with the bike is vital and little particulars make a giant distinction. I need to say I’m actually proud of what ENVE have produced for us each with their wheels and handlebars. They tackle board suggestions from us riders and ship it into their merchandise.”
– Tadej Pogačar
What’s new?
The largest practical distinction is that this new ENVE SES Aero Professional bar makes use of a straight flare from the hoods which angles your levers out on the backside and permits barely turned-in hoods up high for the narrowest trendy highway racing place. Examine it to the compound bend flare of the AR. The flare right here can be a bit much less, so the drops are 3cm wider than the hoods (vs. 5cm wider on the AR).
ENVE additionally manufactures this new SES Aero Professional bar as a 1-piece carbon monocoque building, in contrast to the extra modular AR bar. It additionally will get a smoother high that favors much less bar tape – fastidiously wrapped from the primary bend within the tops of the bar for the cleanest look. And so it additionally options totally enclosed inner cable routing contained in the bar to maintain your cables out of the wind, in contrast to the extra accessible cable channels on the AR bar that will most frequently find yourself below bar tape.
Tech particulars
- handmade 1-piece monocoque carbon highway bike bar + stem cockpit
- compact curve with 129mm drop & 79mm attain
- ~6.75° flare for 1.5cm of additional width on either side (3cm wider on the drops vs. hoods)
- out there in 37cm, 39cm & 41cm widths, measured center-co-center on the hoods (no 35cm choice, although)
- designed to permit extra inward-angled shift/brake lever place
- -7° stem angle
- out there in 90mm, 100mm, 110mm, 120mm, 130mm & 140mm stem lengths (not Pogačar’s 125mm)
- In-Route built-in full inner cable routing
- customized Okay-Edge out-front GPS mount included
- contains 40mm of built-in In-Route stem/steerer spacers (2x 5mm, 3x 10mm)
- appropriate with exterior routing with 1x 10mm bypass spacer, included
- built-in bar finish plus for clear bar tape ending
- made in Ogden, UT, USA
- 345-365g claimed weight (varies with size & width)
ENVE SES Aero Professional – Pricing, choices & availability
It’s arduous to disregard the exorbitant $1200 price ticket of the brand new ENVE SES Aero Professional bar. It’s arduous to disregard. However such is the worth of a professional highway bike setup, I suppose.
For that worth you get to select from 90, 100, 110, 120, 130 & 140mm lengthy stems and 37, 39, or 41cm vast bars.
Formally, all sizes can be found now instantly from ENVE, and thru their common retail channels. However the handmade nature and excessive worth of the SES Aero Professional bar additionally signifies that this new cockpit is just out there in comparatively gradual numbers. And as soon as they promote out the scale you may be on the lookout for, it might be a little bit of a wait till it’s again in inventory.
