Spotted in an LBS today

If your car has a dashboard, shouldn't your bike have one too? SRAM present the Smartbar, weighing
in at twice the weight of the rest of your bike, and selling for a mere £240, how can you be
without one?

http://www.sram.com/product/pavement/smartbar/naked_smartbar.asp

Huw "Brum, brummmmmm" Pritchard

 

I can tell your the other side of the pond. Because the Smartbar didn't go over very well in the
USA. Or even Srams 3.0 and 4.0 derailleurs. All you can get over here are 5.0 , 7.0 , 9.0,9.0 SL,
and the newest one X.0.

Fire up MTB 03

 

Huw Pritchard wrote:
> If your car has a dashboard, shouldn't your bike have one too? SRAM present the Smartbar, weighing
> in at twice the weight of the rest of your bike, and selling for a mere £240, how can you be
> without one?
>
> http://www.sram.com/product/pavement/smartbar/naked_smartbar.asp
>
> Huw "Brum, brummmmmm" Pritchard

Neeeeeeeeeeed!

 

"Huw Pritchard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
| If your car has a dashboard, shouldn't your bike have one too? SRAM present the Smartbar, weighing
| in at twice the weight of the rest of your bike, and selling for a mere £240, how can you be
| without one?
|
| http://www.sram.com/product/pavement/smartbar/naked_smartbar.asp

Several years ago when this bit of garbage was announced, we passed the trade magazine around the
shop and had a really good laugh. Amazing that if you consider the Hybrid market was a disaster
(excepting 26" wheeled "comfort" bikes) that this think was ever even considered.

Nobody EVER asked us for one of these.

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"Huw Pritchard" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
news[email protected]...
> If your car has a dashboard, shouldn't your bike have one too? SRAM present the Smartbar, weighing
> in at twice the weight of the rest of your bike, and selling for a mere £240, how can you be
> without one?
>
> http://www.sram.com/product/pavement/smartbar/naked_smartbar.asp
>
> Huw "Brum, brummmmmm" Pritchard

it sucks it is made of plastic

 

> Several years ago when this bit of garbage was announced, we passed the trade magazine around the
> shop and had a really good laugh. Amazing that if you consider the Hybrid market was a disaster
> (excepting 26" wheeled "comfort" bikes) that this think was ever even considered.
>
> Nobody EVER asked us for one of these.
>
>

Had a SRAM rep ask me if I had one yet. Does that count?

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Chris Phillipo - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia http://www.ramsays-online.com

 

On Mon, 26 May 2003 16:15:34 -0400, "Nelson Binch" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Amazing that if you consider the Hybrid market was a disaster (excepting 26" wheeled "comfort"
> bikes) that this think was ever even considered.

My shop sells plenty of 700c wheeled hybrids. Don't tell our customers the "market is a
disaster". <G>

Barry

 

amerigo wrote:
> "Huw Pritchard" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news[email protected]...
>
>>If your car has a dashboard, shouldn't your bike have one too? SRAM present the Smartbar, weighing
>>in at twice the weight of the rest of your bike, and selling for a mere £240, how can you be
>>without one?
>>
>>http://www.sram.com/product/pavement/smartbar/naked_smartbar.asp
>>
>>Huw "Brum, brummmmmm" Pritchard
>
>
> it sucks it is made of plastic

Gianni?

 

On Mon, 26 May 2003 18:07:47 -0400, ClydesdaleMTB did issue forth:

>> it sucks it is made of plastic
>
> Gianni?

Do keep up. We established this some time ago.

Although having looked at the Smartbar, I must say that for once I'm inclined to agree on the
shitness of this particular item.

Huw "SRAM Smartbar is made of plastic, ah ah death to you and your hybrid" Pritchard

 

"Huw Pritchard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> If your car has a dashboard, shouldn't your bike have one too? SRAM present the Smartbar, weighing
> in at twice the weight of the rest of your bike, and selling for a mere £240, how can you be
> without one?
>
> http://www.sram.com/product/pavement/smartbar/naked_smartbar.asp

We saw this monstrosity at the TO Bike Show a few years back when they demo'd it. It got quite
the giggle.

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

 

"amerigo" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
> "Huw Pritchard" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news[email protected]...
> > If your car has a dashboard, shouldn't your bike have one too? SRAM present the Smartbar,
> > weighing in at twice the weight of the rest of
your
> > bike, and selling for a mere £240, how can you be without one?
> >
> > http://www.sram.com/product/pavement/smartbar/naked_smartbar.asp
> >
> > Huw "Brum, brummmmmm" Pritchard
>
> it sucks it is made of plastic

Nope. It's almost entirely made of aluminium. And it weighs a ton.

Andy Chequer

 

Huw Pritchard <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> If your car has a dashboard, shouldn't your bike have one too? SRAM present the Smartbar, weighing
> in at twice the weight of the rest of your bike, and selling for a mere £240, how can you be
> without one?
>
> http://www.sram.com/product/pavement/smartbar/naked_smartbar.asp
>
> Huw "Brum, brummmmmm" Pritchard

Stupid toy. I mean, WTF needs .........oh bollox.

Shaun aRe

 

"Huw Pritchard" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> If your car has a dashboard, shouldn't your bike have one too? SRAM present the Smartbar, weighing
> in at twice the weight of the rest of your bike, and selling for a mere £240, how can you be
> without one?
>
> http://www.sram.com/product/pavement/smartbar/naked_smartbar.asp
>
> Huw "Brum, brummmmmm" Pritchard

Oh... YES, baby! This is just bike porn at it's best...
--
Westie

 

On Mon, 26 May 2003 18:47:35 +0100, "Huw Pritchard" <[email protected]> wrote:

>If your car has a dashboard, shouldn't your bike have one too? SRAM present the Smartbar, weighing
>in at twice the weight of the rest of your bike, and selling for a mere £240, how can you be
>without one?
>
>http://www.sram.com/product/pavement/smartbar/naked_smartbar.asp
>
>Huw "Brum, brummmmmm" Pritchard

Coolness: the handlebar becomes an ergonomic, intuitive, ultra-integrated control system

Yeah, right.

Oh look ! A squadron of pigs right over A-MB

Peter R.

 

Huw Pritchard wrote:
> http://www.sram.com/product/pavement/smartbar/naked_smartbar.asp

<Howl><LOL>

Do you think the "remote buttons" they discribe are difficult to use.. Surely it makes no sense
having the buttons away from the bike?

Sort of looks cool but I think in MTB terms its vera-vera-silly

<Chuckle> Gyp

 

> > Trick 2: ride in front of V-brake sucker and speed up as you approach turn, luring said sucker
> > into a false sense of security. Slam the front disc hard, let go, easily make the turn and
> > listen to the carnage behind you.....hehehe...my favorite.
> >
>
> wouldn't work, i'd just use You as a burm and you go highside.
>

Hence the tacoed rear wheels I mentioned before, except they used me as a wall and went highside, of
the handlebars.
> as i'v said as long as the brakes can lock the wheels it is what *tires* you have that matter not
> the type of brake - of course you need to be able to ride.

I had a set of Speed dials set in the highest leverage position, they could lock both wheels with
one finger, couldn't stop the bike worth a damn. The first time I rode them I tried for about 100ft
to stop on wet grass until I ran out of field and crashed. Locking the wheel is a stupid thing to do
and brakes that allow you to do nothing but lock the wheel are about as useful as a hockey stick in
the spokes.
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Chris Phillipo - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia http://www.ramsays-online.com

 

Does it have indicators? I want indicators! *click click click..*

 

> you consider the Hybrid market was a disaster (excepting 26" wheeled "comfort" bikes) that this
> think was ever even considered.

More than every second new bike I see around here is a 28" wheeled hybrid. Now the new thing are the
so called "fitness-hybrids" with wheels and some componentry from roadbikes and a straight
handlebar. Like this one: http://www.merida.com/db_data/bikes/750/speedert5.jpg I guess the
hybrid-market wasn't a disaster everywhere...

Juho Finland

 

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
> > you consider the Hybrid market was a disaster (excepting 26" wheeled "comfort" bikes) that this
> > think was ever even considered.
>
> More than every second new bike I see around here is a 28" wheeled hybrid. Now the new thing are
> the so called "fitness-hybrids" with wheels and some componentry from roadbikes and a straight
> handlebar. Like this one: http://www.merida.com/db_data/bikes/750/speedert5.jpg I guess the
> hybrid-market wasn't a disaster everywhere...
>
> Juho Finland
>
>
>

The Hybrid/coaster bike and electric bike markets are supposed to be the fastest growing segments
in bicycles right now. Personally I don't do anything to help that trend because I'm a mountian
bike bigot.
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Chris Phillipo - Cape Breton, Nova Scotia http://www.ramsays-online.com

 

> Does it have indicators? I want indicators! *click click click..*



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