Oh, man, now you've got me thinking. I took 20-year-old Modolo aluminum bars off my old Raleigh. I'd crashed them into a telephone pole, yet there's no *visible* damage to the bars. And so I put them on my "new" beater when I needed a wider bar a couple of months ago -- because I'm such a cheapskate. Guess I'd better go and yank on them a bit to see if I detect any issues...
Joe K On Monday, March 18, 2013 8:27:46 PM UTC-4, EricP wrote: > > Philip - very nice looking bike. Have had one set of bars fail years ago, > but they were flat bars on a mountain bike. Will admit to thinking about > this as I put a used set of 48cm Nitto Noodles on my SimpleOne this > spring. Hopefully they will last another year or two. > > On my drop bar bikes, will probably change them after a few years. Might > be a good reason to go for steel bars in the future. > > Eric Platt > St. Paul, MN > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:32 PM, William <tape...@gmail.com > <javascript:>>wrote: > >> I don't know if they sag before breaking, but I do know aluminum has a >> cycle life. It merely scares me to see folks riding bars that are badly >> and symmetrically bent, clearly from tons and tons of use. >> >> Your offroad fixie is gorgeous, and I trust your judgement. The tinker >> can smell fatigue, and that's a fact. >> >> >> >> > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
