so i got my te-bar half a season and rode about 150hours with it. im still very satisfied with it. i tried different bikes with conventional bars meanwhile and the difference is crazy. when i stick on a bike with alloy bar it really feels you have a peace of metal in your hand, a direct, rough feeling.
i also had an huge crash, unluckily a highsider on asphalt! came into a lefthandcorner and didnt notice there was running a small stream water over it, backwheel overtaked me and got grip, smash! i wasnt really fast, about 40km/h, but the bike impacted direct on the bar really hard. lucky i got just a bruse on my arm. the bar had nothing exept a small damage on the alloy pipe on the right side end. any alloy bar would have been destroyed, guaranteed! i understand from it that the bar ate up all the impact. not even the fork was twisted.
thumbs up.
