Spank Spike 800 Race Optimized 5th Gen XGT MTB Handlebar

SPANK INDUSTRIES is one of the very few brands of its size in the world, with in-house design, development, and manufacturing of their complete line of unique and exclusive components. The brand does not outsource the manufacture of their designs to industrial-scale factories.

From the delivery of the highest-quality raw materials, SPANK actually manufactures their product themselves in their wholly-owned factory.

At the center of the bar, the Bar Geometry Index & Cockpit Adjustment Dial contains all the critical bar geometry specifications, providing a handy reference for finding the ideal bar position. All SPANK bars come with cut marks at the bar ends, making it easy to determine the minimum width to which the bar can be cut down.

SPANK utilizes a proprietary blended, enriched alloy called Super-6 Aluminum. This specially blended, highly magnesium-silicon enriched, work-hardened alloy offers the perfect mix of hardness, yield, fatigue life, and superior ultimate tensile strength compared to standard 6 series alloys. It is ideal for the creation of thin-walled, super-stiff handlebars.

Through the adoption of Super-6 materials and other enriched blends, SPANK's SPIKE and OOZY handlebars are now stronger and show greater resistance to deformation than ever before.

SPANK has invested in automated Three Dimensional CNC Bending machines for their handlebar production, offering better symmetry, consistency, and limiting material structural damage during the bending process. The precision of 3D CNC Bending allows SPANK to optimize their designs, eliminating the need for heavy grinding, making their bars lighter, stronger, and safer.

SPANK's Dual XGT technology tapers their bars from the thickest area at the bar clamping zone, gradually through the bend zones, to the thinnest areas at the control zones and back to the thicker reinforced bar-end zones, or "Impact Ends." This precision process eliminates stress zones where breaks can occur.

SPANK has utilized FEA (Finite Element Analysis), laboratory, and rigorous real-world testing to optimize the spread of material to where it's needed to withstand the specific forces at work in each zone, while offering better safeguards against crashes.

SPANK's state-of-the-art proprietary metal forming methods further improve grain size consistency and orientation, and significantly reduce grain size beyond that of their competitors. This leads to greater ultimate strength, toughness, and ductility, translating to confidence, comfort, and safety.

SPANK's handlebar offerings, including the Spike 800 Vibrocore, Oozy 780 Vibrocore, Spike 35 Vibrocore, Spike 800 Race, and Spoon 800, are designed with the serious rider in mind, providing an affordable, high-quality product that can be depended upon, even in the most rugged terrains.

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