Renthal has an enviable reputation when it comes to their bike components. Its range may be limited to bars, stems, grips and chainrings, but each has been developed and tested at the highest levels.
As trail bikes have developed, wider bars and the new 35mm bar diameter standard have become prevalent though, while Renthal’s Fatbar and Fatbar Lite (along with their corresponding carbon variants) have remained at the 31.8mm standard and 780mm / 740mm widths.
With increasing OE demand and customers seeing 35mm as an ‘upgrade’, Renthal has finally seen fit to expand its range with 35mm versions of the four models, while adding 20mm of width – Fatbars are now 800mm and the Fatbar Lite is 760mm. Correspondingly, Renthal's Apex and Integra stems now come in 35mm versions.
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The new Fatbars are longer than their ancestors
While these updates have taken a little while to come, Renthal's developers wanted to make sure their products met high expectations by the time they came to market. With its own in-house testing rigs, Renthal claims to have been able to engineer the bars to feel very similar to their 31.8mm predecessors.
First ride impressions: fatter yet more forgiving
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