Ray, Sorry to hear about your crash and I hope you are healing up quickly. Sounds like you went down at a pretty good clip. As for the bars, I would rewrap them and just keep an eye on them.
I used 46cm Noodles and Sugino XD cranks on a tour last year and crashed into a ditch fully-loaded (~60lb of gear(?)-- not sure but it was a lot). Fork was destroyed but the bars/cranks were fine. Furthermore, my bike fell over a few times along the way, and the bike really goes down *hard* when fully loaded. The 46cm Noodle bars took the brunt of those falls every time. Anyway the Noodles/Suginos are still on there now, and i ride it to work every day. They are seriously strong bars and cranks. As an aside, I remember a blog post on the RBW site a few months ago, suggesting that Rivendell/Nitto may come out with steel Noodles. If that happens I would like to buy some, but it won't be because the Aluminum versions aren't strong enough, only because I might want to put Noodles on my old specialized. Hope you are back in the saddle soon. -Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
