Charge Slice Review

The Charge Slice are just one of a million different bullhorn handlebars available out there so why should you buy them? Well get comfy and I’ll tell you why…

1. They are extremely well priced at around £20 and as low as £18 online.
With a price as low as that you can try them without breaking the bank, you really can’t go wrong. Even if you don’t like them you could flog them on for a tenner and you’ll never even notice that you bought them in the first place.

2. Charge is a British company and it’s good to support them.
In general I don’t give a damn where a product comes from but Charge is a cool company that makes cool stuff and just happens to be British. Buying these bars is the equivalent of buying potatoes from a market stall rather than a supermarket, they just taste better. In bike terms you’ll enjoy riding with these bars more.

3. The low price doesn’t reflect the quality which is actually really good.
These aren’t a crappy set of cheap bars so don’t worry about that, in fact I ran bars first into a car that pulled out in front of me a month ago, my collarbone was smashed to pieces and so was the car window but the bars are fine. If they were made of cruddy, cheap material then surely they would have bent at least a little bit.

The most important factor in any handlebar is the size and shape. These aren’t like the Nitto RB-021 which has that super cool drop but next to no flat along the top, these bad boys are 440mm which is WIDE! Now I know it’s hip and cool and fly to have the chopped down risers and the 380mm wide drops but you haven’t lived until you’ve ridden with wider bars. I’ve ridden with the skinny bars and thought it was fine until I got some nice wide drops like they had in the 70′s, it’s a completely different ride, I think the word that sums wide bars up is ‘sensible’. If you are bombing through London traffic delivering parcels then keep your chopped risers but YOU AREN’T DOING THAT. Stick a set of the Charge Slice bars on your bike and you’ll ride faster and you’ll climb hills with far less effort. It’s a no-brainer, they are affordable, they look good, they are well made and they are sensible.

The angle on the bars is really sharp so you won’t get them through every stem, you’ll need one that is a bit thinner on the underside or you’ll end up scratching them to bits, you have been warned.

You can probably get them from your LBS (another bonus of Charge being a UK based company) so go there first, if you have no luck then click here.

Check out the CHARGEBIKES.COM too.

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