For years, riders have preferred aluminum bars to carbon, as they believed carbon bars had the potential to fail. But how often does this actually happen? Are carbon bars actually stronger than aluminum? The crew from the Global Cycling Network went to the Controltech factory, and were given free reign of their fatigue and impact testing machines to test aluminum and carbon handlebars to destruction! The results were really quite surprising. Press play to see for yourself.
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