Mythos' new £1,500 handlebar brings yet more 3D

Brand claims to have manufactured more than 150 handlebars for British Cycling

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By Warren Rossiter

Published: December 22, 2022 at 5:06 pm

The Mythos TX-1 is a new 3D-printed titanium track cycling handlebar from the brand behind the £500 Elix stem.

Metron Advanced Equipment (Mythos’ parent company) has plenty of experience with 3D-printed cockpits – it claims to have manufactured more than 150 3D-printed handlebar setups for British Cycling alone, including the titanium bar used by Bradley Wiggins in his 2015 hour record.

The TX-1 takes advantage of new UCI regulations that allow the handlebar to sit 10cm in front of the front wheel axle.

The TX-1 is made using EBM (electronic beam melting) additive manufacturing.

According to Mythos, this process is usually found in top-level aerospace and motorsport engineering.

All Mythos parts are made to AS/EN9100 certification. This is a global aerospace manufacturing standard covering everything from raw materials to tensile testing of the finished products.

Mythos claims its standards of manufacturing are the most stringent in the cycling industry.

The shape of TX-1 bar was developed in-house.

At first glance, the shape is reminiscent of the bar Ribble developed for its radical Ultra SLR road bike, though the TX-1 isn't a one-piece bar and stem design.

Its track designation also means it's not intended to have levers mounted. Mythos told BikeRadar it is considering producing a similar bar for road cycling.

Mythos claims the aero design is optimised to work with six different hand positions.

Moulding the bar around positions to fit your hand better should improve comfort and reduce fatigue, as well as improving aerodynamic performance.

Senior technical editor

Warren Rossiter is BikeRadar and Cycling Plus magazine's senior technical editor for road and gravel. Having been testing bikes for more than 20 years, Warren has an encyclopedic knowledge of road cycling and has been the mastermind behind our Road Bike of the Year test for more than a decade. He's also a regular presenter on the BikeRadar Podcast and on BikeRadar's YouTube channel. In his time as a cycling journalist, Warren has written for Mountain Biking UK, What Mountain Bike, Urban Cyclist, Procycling, Cyclingnews, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike and T3. Over the years, Warren has written about thousands of bikes and tested more than 2,500 – from budget road bikes to five-figure superbikes. He has covered all the major innovations in cycling this century, and reported from launches, trade shows and industry events in Europe, Asia, Australia, North American and Africa. While Warren loves fast road bikes and the latest gravel bikes, he also believes electric bikes are the future of transport. You’ll regularly find him commuting on an ebike and he longs for the day when everyone else follows suit. You will find snaps of Warren's daily rides on the Instagram account of our sister publication, Cycling Plus (@cyclingplus).

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