{"id":173317,"date":"2026-02-10T18:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/?post_type=review-global&#038;p=173317"},"modified":"2026-02-10T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:30:11","slug":"time-to-study-history","status":"publish","type":"review-global","link":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/review-global\/time-to-study-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to study history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I googled about NITTO B805 bar before, I saw some ARAYA complete MTBs with it.<\/p>\n<p>I finally found this from ARAYA&#8217;s catalog archive.<\/p>\n<p>FYI, this is from 1999.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-172820\" src=\"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b6d24d424d6ac1cad4f86958629354ba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1082\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b6d24d424d6ac1cad4f86958629354ba.jpg 1082w, https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b6d24d424d6ac1cad4f86958629354ba-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1082px) 100vw, 1082px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the top-tier full suspension downhill bike at that time (8-speed on the top-tier bike, it has a real sense of history&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-172821\" src=\"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/326f182fec52387ffb66182e029f1038.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1174\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/326f182fec52387ffb66182e029f1038.jpg 1174w, https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/326f182fec52387ffb66182e029f1038-768x547.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1174px) 100vw, 1174px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is 26&#8243; trial bike. It seemed that these bikes originally came with NITTO B805 bar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since B805 bar was chosen for downhill bikes and trial bikes which require multiple riding positions, it proves the high controllability of SYNC bar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is just my imagination, but I guess that B805 bar has been barely sold separately.<\/p>\n<p>I think it only came with complete bikes like this ARAYA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to share the history with you guys since I think it helps you like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":172821,"template":"","better_featured_image":{"id":172821,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1174,"height":836,"file":"2026\/01\/326f182fec52387ffb66182e029f1038.jpg","filesize":103739,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"326f182fec52387ffb66182e029f1038-768x547.jpg","width":768,"height":547,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":52177,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/326f182fec52387ffb66182e029f1038-768x547.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":172818,"source_url":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/326f182fec52387ffb66182e029f1038.jpg"},"acf":{"not_to_displayed_on_top":true,"ctm-post-priority":"0"},"post-meta-fields":{"_edit_lock":["1770715677:70"],"_edit_last":["70"],"_thumbnail_id":["172821"],"not_to_displayed_on_top":["1"],"_not_to_displayed_on_top":["field_6944f0f6461a3"],"ctm-post-priority":["0"],"_ctm-post-priority":["field_6522836fa8f5e"],"pp_checklist_custom_item_jlhhonippgapjyw":["yes"],"_my_meta_value_key":["[{\"pid\":46827,\"name\":\"*NITTO* sync bar (dull)\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/nitto-sync-bar-dull.html\",\"src\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/3523710a6209bf43bdc4af034e5e9b62\/2\/0\/20250616-dsc05057.jpg\"},{\"pid\":46825,\"name\":\"*NITTO* sync bar (black)\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/nitto-sync-bar-black.html\",\"src\":\"https:\/\/global.bluelug.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/3523710a6209bf43bdc4af034e5e9b62\/2\/0\/20250616-dsc05061.jpg\"}]"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review-global\/173317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review-global"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review-global"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}