TRUVATIV BARS
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It started nearly two decades ago with the original RockShox BoXXer and our desire to provide completely personalized support to a special group of riders. The goal was to give our team a clear performance advantage in World Cup competition, and to win races. In this relentless pursuit of the podium, no rider request was too crazy or too costly—the average yearly salary of a pro mountain biker wouldn’t have covered the manufacturing cost of those gen-1 BoXXers. It paid off. We won races and wrote some of the most exciting stories in mountain bike history. With our athletes’ successes—and failures—we learned what worked, and what didn’t. Some of those BlackBox technologies have made it to market.
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JEROME CLEMENTZ BLACKBOX BAR
STEVIE SMITH BLACKBOX BAR
Carbon fiber
AL-7050 alloy
Width: 750mm
Width: 780mm
Rise: 20mm
Rise: 30mm
7˚ back-sweep, 5˚ up-sweep
7˚ back-sweep, 5˚ up-sweep
Weight: 240g
Weight: 340g
2016 TRUVATIV
As the sport evolved, the BlackBox program extended beyond RockShox. Across the SRAM brand family, if it could extend the boundaries of mountain biking, the BlackBox team was there to develop new products and technologies. When our athletes asked for a different kind of handlebar, TRUVATIV answered with the BooBar, a bar designed to meet the demands of World Cup downhilling, as well as the discerning feel of our athletes. And now we’re proud to announce the TRUVATIV BlackBox Athlete Series, a collection of bars specifically engineered to match the demands of each signature athlete’s discipline and riding style—and to enhance each rider’s cockpit interface.