tell me how a consistent wall tube would be stronger in a certain direction?
yeah, i have a pair flipped right now, so yeah i am willing to test
my body.
Lowering the bar... anyone flip their riser bars upside down?
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tell me how a consistent wall tube would be stronger in a certain direction?
yeah, i have a pair flipped right now, so yeah i am willing to test
my body.
Well if the tube is drawn evenly and then bent, the long side WILL be thinner. There is no way around it unless the bar can magically produce more aluminum.
have you or anyone on here ever seen a bar test video.
its not just one direction BUT BOTH. till failure.
it would make no difference on the over all
strength of the bar if ti was in up or down.
same on a bike. please someone back me up...........
Okay, I found a way to set up the bar that works for me. Using super clock action technology, a standard bar is set up at 12. You upside down brosefs are running bars at 6. My super awesome better-than-everyone-else's-I'm-not-willing-to-hear-new-ideas-bars are set up at 8 ohyeah clock.
I have, and that isn't the point I'm making. I'm just saying the bar isn't exactly the same on all sides if it is drawn evenly and bent.
even if you break bars up and down, unless you have the test report with the numbers - you dont know at what force they broke at in each direction. If you do have a test report and it shows the bars equally strong or stronger upside down - run them that way- if not run them that way at your own risk.
i'm with BCD on the strength issue....should be just as strong.
sh!t, we probably put the most force on a bar when we're bunny hopping.
i had low-end bar break on me and it was mid air during a bunny hop...after a year or so of loading-dock-drops to flat.
and if bike companies don't design/test a bar for more than one direction, then they're stupid....we're applying forces in all kinds of directions when we ride.
sh!t, we probably put the most force on a bar when we're bunny hopping.
i had low-end bar break on me and it was mid air during a bunny hop...after a year or so of loading-dock-drops to flat.
and if bike companies don't design/test a bar for more than one direction, then they're stupid....we're applying forces in all kinds of directions when we ride.
when i would be worried about a bar breaking its from fatigue cycles,
not crash, ultimate strength test. all the fatigue testing machines i
have seen work on a elliptical cycles up and down. that is how i use
my bars on my bike, pull and push.
i don't know who you are, industry folk i guess, just poping up here
telling people to run at you own risk.
hell, everything part i ride IMO is ride at your own risk. we all know
that. i am just trying to instill a reader that IMO its just as safe to run
inverted as upright. BOTH are ride at your own risk.
do you have tests that it isn't?
if not don't tell me it isn't.................hahahahha
No, sir, I dont. Like I said before I cant tell you if its more less or equal strenth. All I am saying is without the proper testing and analysis we dont know, and I feel it is irresponsible to proclaim equal performance without the data. I am not saying it is unsafe - I am saying there is a risk of it being unsafe.do you have tests that it isn't?
if not don't tell me it isn't.................hahahahha
this thread reads like lemon party.
My internal supercomputer tells me that it's the same strength in both directions.
If only you has said "oval chainrings" instead of "biopace", we could be reading your book now
Sweet decade old necro-bump
What a trip down memory lane. Not only did this not take off, flat bars are more or less dead too.
I still have flat bars on my dh bike, I was just too busy/lazy to swap them out this season.
The ones I have are 762. Kore made an 800 flat bar once upon a time.
Ain't nothin wrong with flat bars. The problem is they became a trendy thing without consideration of fit/geometry. Any short person with a 29er front wheel on a long travel fork might benefit from them.
also, god dammit people used to be annoying here
also, god dammit people used to be annoying here
Yeah there are a few wider options, but they were expensive and these Protapers were cheap. I'm going to try single-clamp grips (yeah I still use old ODIs) to try and get more usable width out of them and maybe even cheap 1/4" or so a side over the edge.
whats odd is every one of my short friends bikes i hop on has high rise bars rolled forwards AF with levers pointed at the ground,Ain't nothin wrong with flat bars. The problem is they became a trendy thing without consideration of fit/geometry. Any short person with a 29er front wheel on a long travel fork might benefit from them.
also, god dammit people used to be annoying here
I have yet to figure it out.
ATTACK!!!!
That's the get them forward because they're too embarrassed to run a flat bar.
My levers would laugh at you if they weren't uncomfortably strained by being rotated so far forward.
Not true.
@monkeyfcuker fitted a set to his Iron Horse Sunday about 10 years back and now he rides gravel while wearing spandex.
Conclusion: flat bars are definitely a gateway component
@Sandwich - same thing.
Technically I don’t ride gravel either…the frame has been at the shop for 6 months now awaiting a warranty replacement. Defo a gateway to poor choices though, I’ve a -20 degree stem on the XC bike these days
I like my low stack height, but I think about putting my 20mm risers on for the added reach. Shame they aren't black, but at least they have neon yellow.