Beast Components takes their already “extremely light and ultra stable” mountain bike handlebars and given them a Riser & Flat Bar 2.0 update to better deal with lightweight components. As component makers have machined away more & more material to shed weight from their own parts, carbon bars have taken the brunt of more uneven clamping forces. So, Beast dove deep into analyzing the impacts of those less uniform forces, and is reinforcing all of their MTB bars to greatly improve safety at the cost of just a few grams…
Beast Flat & Riser 2.0 lightweight reinforced carbon MTB bars

Riding light carbon MTB bars in technical terrain is often a hotly-debated topic of discussion, mainly because enough riders have seen anecdotal evidence of someone having sheared a carbon bar off either at the stem or brake lever. Beast understands the reluctance, but being carbon engineers they set about solving the problem, not just talking about it.
So what they did was identify the problem and its effects, model the real forces, reinforce their bar layups, and test to be sure their new design was safer.
The issue is that many ultralight brake & shifter clamps (including those from industry benchmarks like Shimano & SRAM) use non-round designs or machined-out clamps that distribute pressure unevenly on the bar. Contact areas a reduced so forces are increased. Even more conventional, lower-end clamps can often be irregular in shape or poorly formed, resulting in uneven pinching at the bar.
And carbon fibers don’t like that.
