Specialized Thermoplastic bars - what year?

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Basically over the years I have been up and down with whether or not to fit these to my 1995 FSR. My question is, we’re these bars available in 1995 when the bike was made or are the bars much earlier?

 

[-Niellesie-]

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I have had 2 of those and both were fitted to 95 s-work bikes.
1 on a fsr and the other on a 95 steel s-works.
Both were original 90s builds so i think they were available at that time.

 

[development_cycle]

I'll try to go through the old catalogues when I have time, I feel as though the bars are more like early 90's rather than mid, but would like to confirm. I think I'll only keep mine if they were definately still available in 95, I wouldn't generally have put older stuff oin a bike back then, and so am inclined not to do so now either, more the other way around when upgrading or replacing parts.

 

[scant]

if they're the slightly red tint version, I think they were 93.

 

[development_cycle]

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That’s them Mike, when the S-works FSR was available in 1995, or maybe 1994 for 1995 model, would these bars still have been on the market? Something in the back of my head tells me they would not have been

 

[scant]

I dont think they were available for very long as they had cracking issues, which is likely why they're pretty rare now.

 

[development_cycle]

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I’ve only seen three up for sale in the 11 years I’ve been on here, and two were mine