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FROTS BIKE 2017
weedbix:
--- Quote from: Eggit2 on August 03, 2017, 11:09:59 PM ---Eclat abandoned long standing standards so they could increase handlebar strength in an area that handlebars never fail. Why?
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I cbf finding out what you are referring to, but if they've increased clamping area diameter, their thinking might be to reduce torsion fatigue around there. At the cost of it being easier to crush the bars out of round...
Eggit2:
--- Quote from: Professor Horatio Hufnagel on August 09, 2017, 12:45:40 AM ---
--- Quote from: Eggit2 on August 03, 2017, 11:09:59 PM ---Eclat abandoned long standing standards so they could increase handlebar strength in an area that handlebars never fail. Why?
--- End quote ---
I cbf finding out what you are referring to, but if they've increased clamping area diameter, their thinking might be to reduce torsion fatigue around there. At the cost of it being easier to crush the bars out of round...
--- End quote ---
Yea thats what they did. Bars always break at the bend up near the grip though. I have never had a pair fail near the stem.
weedbix:
I saw heaps of 4pcs break in the 90's down there (being a HAZ and before post-welding heat treating) and likewise I've not witnessed it personally in the modern 2pc era, but I have seen a couple cases of it in the scene in the last 5 years. Certainly not enough to infer an epidemic, hell not even enough to rule out freak occurrence :0
Good to see you BTW, how goes the bursitis? I ended up getting it in my shoulder but after a few cycles of cortisone injections it came good
Boomhauer:
--- Quote from: Eggit2 on August 14, 2017, 02:10:22 PM ---
--- Quote from: Professor Horatio Hufnagel on August 09, 2017, 12:45:40 AM ---
--- Quote from: Eggit2 on August 03, 2017, 11:09:59 PM ---Eclat abandoned long standing standards so they could increase handlebar strength in an area that handlebars never fail. Why?
--- End quote ---
I cbf finding out what you are referring to, but if they've increased clamping area diameter, their thinking might be to reduce torsion fatigue around there. At the cost of it being easier to crush the bars out of round...
--- End quote ---
Yea thats what they did. Bars always break at the bend up near the grip though. I have never had a pair fail near the stem.
--- End quote ---
Volume Mad Dog bars, Fit Benny L bars and Shadow 13b bars are yhe only bars I have had break at the bottom.. two being overseas made 4 piece bars.. doesn't seem like an issue but whatever.. expensive options for whoever may need it.
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