Recently we had the pleasure of chatting with Craig Edwards, who aside from being one of the founders and the brain behind Sweet Parts, also designed the eeBrake, and the eeWing, among other parts in the ee product lineup.

In celebration of Fair Wheel Bikes' 50th Anniversary we have dusted off our stiffness testing apparatus to once again measure crank stiffness. This time we have a pile of modern road bike cranksets to see where each crank manufacturer stacks up.

In the past year we've done deflection testing on cranks, stems and road handlebars.  Now it's time to introduce the Mtb handlebar testing.  For this first round of testing we've tested 50 different handlebars.  While each model may not be unique each one does have unique characteristics.  For example we may have tested the same bar in different lengths to see how length affects stiffness.  We also looked at this with some rise and sweep options as well as different materials.