Got lucky! Found a Thomson in the right spec for a nice price after all. @bigshape bar is from Passchier, I ran it for a couple of weeks on the predecessor before starting this build - very noodly but very comfortable. They say not to be used for real mtb riding, drops etc but ought to be fine for faux-mtb and casual use I reckon. It's about a dozen slices of wood laminated under pressure.
Got lucky! Found a Thomson in the right spec for a nice price after all. @bigshape bar is from Passchier, I ran it for a couple of weeks on the predecessor before starting this build - very noodly but very comfortable. They say not to be used for real mtb riding, drops etc but ought to be fine for faux-mtb and casual use I reckon. It's about a dozen slices of wood laminated under pressure.