Finally, one day a box arrived that had two Luxy Bars inside of it. It was a fascinating look "behind the scenes", and I learned a lot along the way. Richards was kind enough to keep me abreast of. The design process completed, the bar went through the various stages of prototyping and manufacturing, which Mr. Not that anything I contributed was worth keeping, but I'd like to think that I influenced the design in some small way. After this period of time passed, I received images of the rough prototype which no longer bore any resemblance to my crude drawings, but I found fascinating nonetheless.
Months went by, and Brant consulted with others on the design, most notably Sam Alison of Singular Cycles. So I did and Brant seemed truly interested in coming up with something. The Luxy featured a much wider, more flared, and longer drop bar sectioned design. In his e-mail to me he asked, in his typically abbreviated style, to send along a copy of my design for his consideration. He was doing several designs for Chain Reaction Cycles UK brands and mostly for a brand Mr. Richards was a designer at On One, but had recently left to do bicycle and component design on his own, dubbing the company " Shed Fire". Not long after I posted this, I received an e-mail from Brant Richards. I stated something to the effect that I had a "perfect" off road drop bar design in mind which I would have loved to have seen made. (Note- There was also a revival of the WTB Dirt Drop that was never really embraced by the public, due to it's super-deep drop and weird anatomic drop shape, so I have left that out of this discussion.) I was in the On One Midge camp, but I had nits to pick with that design. Of course, at this time in history you had two choices: Find an out of production WTB Dirt Drop, or similar bar, or use an On One Midge Bar, which was based off the original WTB offering, but tweaked in several important and good ways. Why is that? In this post, I'll take a stab at answering this question and telling the back story on this peculiar handle bar.Īs I recall, there was a thread on on the 29"er forum that was going on about off road drop bar set ups and what bar would be best. In the super-niche of off road drop bars, maybe there is no other drop bar that has engendered such curiosity and desire as the Ragley Luxy Bar.
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