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Review: Felt Devox Aerobars   Bookmark and Share
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Just two bolts per side is all the hardware required to secure the bars.
 
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The Devox aerobar is well-known to owners of Felt bikes. The bars come stock on Felt's upper-end triathlon/TT bikes, and they are fantastic. But less known is the fact that Felt sells these bars retail, at three price points, in both UCI-legal and Tri-specific configurations. Read our in-depth review for the whole scoop.


The Felt Devox aerobars, 545g as pictured.

The bars are flat, with a very slim frontal profile.

The arm cups feature a lot of adjustability, and can be flipped inward for an elbows-touching fit.

A built-in routing port makes it a cinch to route cables through the bars. This is a feature we wish was found on more aerobars.

Shown here is the low-stack spacer, at 10mm. A 20mm version is also included, which helps improve ergonomics with some extension shapes.

Even the nut that grabs the adjustment screws is molded into an aero profile.

The Devox version of the bar comes with carbon everywhere - base bar, extensions, and even the arm cups.

The slender profile of the bars looks great - shown here is the 4.2:1 UCI-illegal bar, one of the fastest airfoils available to triathletes.

Just two bolts per side is all the hardware required to secure the bars.

We like these low-profile arm cups, which put your arms just above the top of the stem clamp.

Rolling the extensions in makes for a very comfortable 'prayer grip' with the stock F-bend extensions.

Also included is a computer mount crossbar that can be zip-tied in place between the extensions.

From the front, it's obvious this is a lean, mean bar.



Felt also includes a set of rubber grips that can be optionally used in place of bar tape.

The rubber grips have a protrusion that provides some resistance against sliding forward off the bars.

These low-profile rubber gel arm pads are supplied with the bar.


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