ENVE SES Aero Pro is Another $1200 One-Piece Carbon Road Bike Handlebar

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 contains a totally different design for angled-in hoods, totally 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 street cockpit

When ENVE launched the $1200 AR bar again in January, they instructed that was the bar they developed for Pogačar. Effectively type 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 may get one too, to get that very same narrower hand place, however with snug room in your wrists within the drops and angled-in hoods.

“Relating to efficiency, having a stiff however snug handlebar is admittedly necessary. When you spend so many hours within the saddle like I do, then any contact level with the bike is essential and little particulars make an enormous distinction. I need to say I’m actually pleased with 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 most important useful 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 fashionable street 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 – rigorously wrapped from the primary bend within the tops of the bar for the cleanest look. And so it additionally options absolutely enclosed inside 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 may most frequently find yourself beneath bar tape.

Tech particulars

handmade 1-piece monocoque carbon street bike bar + stem cockpit

compact curve with 129mm drop & 79mm attain

~6.75° flare for 1.5cm of additional width on all sides (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 inside cable routing

customized Ok-Edge out-front GPS mount included

consists of 40mm of built-in In-Route stem/steerer spacers (2x 5mm, 3x 10mm)

suitable 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 laborious to disregard the exorbitant $1200 price ticket of the brand new ENVE SES Aero Professional bar. It’s laborious to disregard. However such is the value of a professional street bike setup, I assume.

For that worth you get to choose from 90, 100, 110, 120, 130 & 140mm lengthy stems and 37, 39, or 41cm huge bars.

Formally, all sizes can be found now straight from ENVE, and thru their common retail channels. However the handmade nature and excessive worth of the SES Aero Professional bar additionally implies that this new cockpit is barely 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.

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