RaceFace Era Handlebar - CarbonThe Era handlebar was designed from the ground up narrowing the stem clamp area to allow both a quicker taper and an earlier rise to achieve RaceFace's meticulously researched Goldilocks (GL) tune. GL tune is the sweet spot for compliance preferred by most riders; stiffer was too harsh softer was too flexible. Nearly 100 individual pieces of hand laid carbon fiber are bound together using a toughened epoxy resin with a specific layup for each bar