Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar Review

Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar Reviews

Review score: 8.7/10 – Updated April, 2024

Latest Price: £39.99 (RRP: £39.99)

Take a look now to discover what makes Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar worthy of a review score of 8.7 out of 10.

Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar Review


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Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar features

Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar specs

Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar
Spec 1

Colour: Black

Other Handlebars found with this Spec: 6387

Spec 2

Size: 85 Reach 135 Drop, 80 Reach 130 Drop, 85 Reach 140 Drop, 75 Reach 125 Drop

Other Handlebars found with this Spec: 1

Spec 3

Option: Chameleon, Bull, Snake

Other Handlebars found with this Spec: 1

Spec 4

Material: Aluminium

Other Handlebars found with this Spec: 762

Spec 5

Width: 44cm, 42cm, 40cm

Other Handlebars found with this Spec: 8

Spec 6

Diameter: 31.8mm

Other Handlebars found with this Spec: 244

Feature 1

Material: Anticorodal 6061 aluminium

Other Handlebars found with this feature: 1

Feature 2

Flare of drops: 3 degrees

Other Handlebars found with this feature: 1

Feature 3

Diameter: 31.8mm

Other Handlebars found with this feature: 48

Feature 4

Weight: 310g (size 400mm, centre to centre)

Other Handlebars found with this feature: 1

Price

£39.99

Number of Reviews

12

Review Score

4.7 / 5

Average score in category: 4.6/5

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Quality

Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Handlebars. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar.

The first thing is material. Looking at what Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.

Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Handlebars. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.

There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Handlebars. Brands like Fizik are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.

Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Handlebars category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.


Comparing Prices

Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Handlebars.

It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.

Price of Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar

So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar.

We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £39.99 in our latest search.

Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.2 out of 10 for price.

Average price of Handlebars

Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Handlebars.

We found 327 in the Handlebars category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £92.73, making it below average at £39.99.

It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Handlebars. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £629.95, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £3.99.

With 327 products available we worked out that 216 cost more than Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar and 105 were cheaper.

Cost of Fizik products

At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 90 products from Fizik, of which 5 were in the Handlebars category.

For now though we’re looking at Fizik branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £120.92 making this product below average.

You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Fizik product we found was £3.99 and the highest price we could find from them was £324.99.

Of the 90 from Fizik, 73 were more expensive than Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar and 16 were cheaper.

How much are Fizik Handlebars?

We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Fizik products that are listed in the Handlebars category.

The average price of the 5 products that match this search was £112.59, with the cheapest coming in at £30.99 and highest price was £269.99. With the average being £112.59, Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar comes in below average.

3 products that meet this search were more expensive than Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar and 1 were cheaper.


Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar Reviews

Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.

There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.

1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.

2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.

Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar reviews there.

Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.4 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Handlebars category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.6 out of 5.

Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar or another similar product, like Fizik Microtex Tacky Bartape and Gel reviews or Fizik Tundra M3 K:ium MTB Saddle reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Handlebars.


Brand

As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Handlebars. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Fizik, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.


YouTube Video of Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar

Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar reviews.


Summary

Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 8.7/10 overall.


Further product details

  • Product ID 1: 25010929695
  • Product ID 2: 546309UK
  • Brand: Fizik
  • Model number: FHB114048R
  • RRP: £39.99
  • EAN: 8021890439130
  • Description: Fizik Cyrano R5 Road HandlebarThe Cyrano R5 is the entry-level handlebar from Fizik. It is made from 6061 anticorodal aluminium that makes it incredibly lightweight and great at reducing road vibrations. It offers the ability for riders to incorporate the flexibility of Fizik’s Spine Concept system at a lower price point.Just as your choice of Fizik Spine Concept saddle shape is guided by your degree of spinal flexibility and subsequent pelvic rotation, Fizik offers this same Spine Concept guideline to help you choose your most comfortable road handlebar shape.The application of The Spine Concept to handlebar shape is the result of Fizik’s research with riders of 3 UCI World Tour Teams that were riding Fizik saddles. A correlation was found between the saddle shapes each rider was using and the handlebar shape they were riding.The Snake Handlebar: If you have a very flexible spine (far less than 90 degrees between your straight legs and your back when bending over as far as you can, keeping your legs straight a shoulders’ width apart), you are a Snake.  You are better able to reach further and get down lower to use the full radius of more rounded, classic-style, and deeper-drop handlebars.You will prefer the Snake Handlebar because it has a longer reach and deeper, classic-style drop.The Chameleon Handlebar: If you have an intermediate degree of spinal flexibility (approximately 90 degrees between your straight legs and your back when bending over as far as you can, keeping your legs straight a shoulders’ width apart), you are a chameleon.  You are better able to reach further, but perhaps you can’t get down quite as low on the handlebar drops as a Snake would be able to.You will prefer the Chameleon Handlebar because it has a longer reach but a shallower, more ergonomic-style drop.The Bull Handlebar: If you have a relatively low degree of spinal flexibility (more than 90 degrees between your straight legs and back when bending over as far as you can, keeping your legs straight a shoulders’ width apart), you are a Bull.  You will not be able to reach as far or bend as low as a Snake or a Chameleon would be able to.You will prefer the Bull Handlebar because it has a shorter reach and a shallower, more ergonomic-style handlebar drop.Features: Material: Anticorodal 6061 aluminium Flare of drops: 3 degrees Diameter: 31.8mm Weight: 310g (size 400mm, centre to centre)Buy Fizik Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Full Category: Components > Handlebars
  • Size: 80 Reach 130 Drop
  • Unisex
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Other options for Handlebars

As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Handlebars. 327 in fact.

A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Fizik Cyrano R5 Road Handlebar included,
Fizik Tundra M1 Braided Saddle reviews, Fizik Aliante 00 Carbon Braided Saddle reviews, or we really liked the look of Fizik Antares 00 Carbon Braided Saddle reviews as another alternative.

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