The OG Caramel bar has been an improvement on each model that has come out. Designed by OG Marton with input from the OG team riders, the bar has kept with its unique design, but offering small refinements such as neater tapering on the downtubes connection to the clamp tube & using multiple butted 4130 CrMo tubing.

So onto first impressions…

The bar I was running recently was from the original batch of prototypes. OG have a solid reputation for product testing & with their long running experience in design & build its pretty much always the case there are little to no changes required for the final production model.

Having run the Caramel 2 bar for about 2.5 years in the past with no problems, I was very interested to see if version 3 was an actual improvement with the number of changes that were made. With an extra degree of sweep & upsweep added & the bars now with 8″ rise they were quite different, not to mention the noticeably different weight achieved by thinner tubing & refined manufacturing processes.

So how did they ride? Going from a slightly shorter bar to an 8″ version took a little adjustment as did the extra degree of back & upsweep. Once everything was dialled in, there was no problem whatsoever. My style of riding involves a lot of jump tricks & I had no problems at getting over the bars or around them. Control for tricks like whiplashes etc. was great – something I think comes from running a taller setup.

I would recommend these bars for taller riders (i’m 5’10″) & those who dig a classic design (kneesaver), but with modern engineering. A lot of years of riding experience has gone in to making these bars – something you can tell very easily once you ride them.

Shane Badman, 2009

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