The bars definitely do wear out, but the way most Riv riders have them set up (high bar height relative to saddle plus generally chill riding) they're likely to last a very long time. Anytime aluminum is flexing, it’s going to eventually fail. I ride some more extreme terrain on a couple of my bikes and I always do so with steel or titanium bars. Personally, I doubt you’ve worn yours out unless you feel them flexing at times. Technically, the heat treated alloy bars are “stronger” than the cromo bars, but the alloy bars can still fail from long term use in a way that cromo won’t. I definitely recommend a faceplater as I’ve always had issues with single bolt stems.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 4:40 PM Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! < jonasandle...@gmail.com> wrote: > On my raspberry Platypus I have aluminum Billie bars and a Nitto Technomic > 12 cm stem from Riv. Maybe once a year in any of my bikes, I’ll get this > irritating ticking in the bars. Years ago after trial and error, I found it > was coming from where the stem clamps the bars. Put a little T9 on there > and you’ll ride in blissful silence for another year or so. But this time, > it is HORRID. A constant cacophony of ticking that nearly drove me wild > during our 34 mile club ride today. If I grab the bar ends, I can make the > sound happen. I have applied T9 twice, greased the bolt, unscrewed it and > screwed it back in again…it’s still making the noise. If I go howling to > the bike shop they will have mercy and help but before I do that, I’m > coming to you all because you’ll know more about our type of bars. > > 1. Do these bars wear out? I can’t imagine that would be the case. The > stem is maybe a year old and the bars maybe 3 years. > > 2. Has this ever happened to you? How did you fix it? > > 3. Would a faceplater stem fix this issue? If I thought it would, I’d get > one and learn how to properly torque that sucker. > > 4. I can’t get the bars to move on me, if that’s what you’re wondering. I > can stand and put weight on them and they don’t obviously slip. > > Thanks for your help! > Leah > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/508d00cb-de89-4c44-bb1f-db4a2e014038n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/508d00cb-de89-4c44-bb1f-db4a2e014038n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CADA0aDcAPZxfjm_s_K8Xfoc0shOtxQOVGo5xmN%2BZHSMvbmMQLg%40mail.gmail.com.
