Wanted: SR / Sakae aluminum all-rounder handlebar

[Erik]

Has anyone ever seen one of these? I want a bar like this or something that puts your hands in front of the stem, and must be narrowish 3 speed style. I've already ruled out the Jitensha bar and a few others.

http://www.equusbicycle.com/bike/sakae/catalog18/pdf/sakaecatalog18_%2010.pdf

Thanks!
Erik in Portland Or

[dan gee]

Soma makes a couple of similar looking bars -- the clarence and the condorina seem like they could mate and produce what you're looking for.

http://www.somafab.com/parts/handlebar

-Dan

[William]

Erik

I might have a set for you.  Kind of long story.  I did a bunch of bike work for our Elementary School Dad's Club bicycle-recycle event.  One of the bikes I worked on was an 80's sport-touring bike.  I swapped the drop bars for my own old set of SR all rounder bars.  The bike looked like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/7210470602/in/photostream 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/7210471160/in/photostream/ 

The bike turned out so well that I sold it before the event to my buddy Doug.  Doug decided to put a massive Wald basket on there (I approved), but he had to swap out the bars to make room for it.  I think that means that he doesn't need those bars, so I might very well be getting them back.  They are aluminum, and very light.  

Bill

[William]

Erik

I do have a set for you.  Doug says I can have them back.  Let's figure out a small PTA donation + shipping = price if you want them.  

Bill

[Joe Bunik]

Erik, I am sure you already know about the alternate 25.4-clamp
Jitensha bar, it is a little bit more curvacious than the "normal"
J-bar. Also, GB (of England) once made an All-Rounder bar that is
similar to these Sakaes.

I have a Phillippe in the stash that is also close, but which I find
is not very comfortable in actual use at all- in case you were
interested. It takes road-clamp size levers IIRC, so it kinda gets a
moustache bar thing going on.

=- Joe Bunik
Walnut Creek, CA

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[James Warren]

If you are riding with this bar (the Clarence):

 

http://www.somafab.com/archives/product/clarence-bar

 

and you are on a Rivendell that can fit Big Apples, do you get to say, "We have clearance, Clarence?"