I've only seen one bar break in my 17 years of racing--and it was a new set of non-cinelli bars this spring. Don't know what they were, but I do remember that they were red. My rain bike has a ca. 1984 66-42 (bent in a crash in 1985) and a 1A stem . . . but I have insurance also . . .
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Dale et. al.,
I have not seen any broken Cinelli bars (or cracked for that matter). Of course, the only broken bars I have ever seen were MTB bars (and abused ones at that!!).
Cheers,
Chuck Brooks
Malta (another wet weekend on forecast) NY