Some help with bicycle part identification

Factual Questions
1

I bought a used mountain bike about a year ago. It is nearly a 10 year old bike. The previous owner had made changes, which I expected, but he had put on riser bars that I just didn’t care for. When I took the riser bars off they had a logo like a shopping cart with bike handlebar handles on the front and some kind of logo stamped under the grip but it is hard to make out and kind of looks like a stylized NL.

It seems a lot of the parts were from 2007 that he used when changing stuff, but I can’t tell if it is a 7 or a 1 stamped on the bars (leaning toward 2007) and also is the following:

MTB-AL-153
TH (maybe)
W:589
2007
01C
10*

Here is an image of the little logo on the front. I don’t have one yet of the stamped area – link.

Thanks in advance!

Brendon

2

What is it exactly that you are trying to identify?

3

I’m trying to figure out the brand of handlebars or where they came from. I know they aren’t original, but I can’t figure out what company even made them.

4

Google is your friend… I won’t do that “let me google that for you” link but searching for your part number had this appear as the fourth result:

http://search.bikeman.com/riser-bars

And then I did a text search on that specific page, which led me to this:

http://www.bikeman.com/HB2008.html

This is the silver version of it, but, it’ll be the same either way.

5

Are you sure about that? That was my initial guess too, but Dimension’s logo isn’t a golden shopping cart with a bike handlebars.

And it seems like the MTB-AL-153 designation is used by other manufacturers too, like Zoom. I can’t figure out if some Chinese company makes them all and they get rebranded, or if it’s just some sort of semi-common handlebar identifier (mountain bike, aluminum, 153 something)

6

I’m figuring they are some kind of generic or knock off that just happened to have that little shopping cart logo. The stamped logo looks a lot like a stylized NL - my wife did some searching and said she found a brand of bike parts that was NL, but I have only seen a few parts with that name brand (and searching for NL is kind of like searching for any other 2 letter term, it stinks).