Aero bars will reduce your frontal area, resulting in faster riding speeds for the same amount of effort. One of the biggest forces working against you is wind resistance.
In addition, aero bars will allow you to stretch out and use different back muscles. With your elbows and humerus (arm bone) supporting the majority of your upper body weight, you’ll reduce strain on your arms, wrists and hands. Why Bikepacking Aero Bars Are AwesomeĪero bars offer an entirely new riding position that’s most beneficial for long days in the saddle. Let’s get aero! (This article was originally published Dec 2018 but has been updated in Dec 2019) Rob English makes custom bikepacking aero bars for his customers, this one is built around a Jones Loop bar. Most aero bar users will agree the biggest advantage is the extra comfort. This is with thanks to the rise of ultra racing events like the Tour Divide where the top riders spend in excess of 18 hours per day on the bike.īut what you may not realise is that for these events, and adventure riding in general – bikepacking aero bars aren’t really about speed. This story is developing, check back for more.Aero bars have recently gained in popularity on bikepacking bikes. Van Schip helped develop the Speeco bars and has long been a fan of ultra-narrow bars in road racing.ĬyclingTips has reached out to the UCI for comment but has not yet received a response. This doesn’t explain why Van Schip was given permission to run the bars by a UCI commissaire on the very morning of his disqualification, of course. In fact, the UCI even used an image of the bars in a recent technical presentation. The design of the ABB bars creates an additional point of contact at the forearms, a position that is expressly forbidden in the UCI’s technical documentation. This position requires that the only points of support are the following: the feet on the pedals, the hands on the handlebars and the seat on the saddle.” The rule states: “The rider shall normally assume a sitting position on the bicycle. Those new rules banned “invisible aero bars” and deemed that the only three points of contact between bicycle and rider would be the hands on the bars, pedals, and saddle.
The UCI updated a number of rules relating to hand position earlier this spring, at the same time it banned the Supertuck, among other changes. Read more: Which hand positions are fastest? > Why now? BEAT believes that the disqualification is unjustified and that Jan-Willem van Schip is seriously affected.” The UCI has not made any reservations about this. Here we got the green light to start with the ABB. “On the morning before the start of the third stage, we even discussed our intentions to ride with the handlebar with the UCI commissaire on site. The UCI has also seen no need to accept the offer of the developer of the ABB handlebar to further investigate the admissibility. Never, the UCI informed us that the handlebar would not be allowed. “Since the launch of the ABB handlebar, we have been discussing with the UCI. “We do not understand this decision,” the team said in a statement. Van Schip and his BEAT Cycling team claim that the UCI had never previously questioned the handlebars and that the team and Van Schip attained approval from the on-site UCI commissaire on the morning of the stage in question. Jan-Willem van Schip has been booted out of the Baloise Belgium Tour by the UCI after the governing body deemed his Speeco Aero Breakaway (ABB) handlebars, which he has used previously, run afoul of technical regulations.
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