Timeline for How to avoid and anticipate breaking handlebars
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| Jan 1, 2023 at 13:34 | comment | added | Weiwen Ng | Downvoted due to FUD about anodizing and 26.0mm bars. | |
| Dec 31, 2022 at 12:56 | comment | added | Andrew Henle | With aluminum alloy bars, I guess you could unwrap the bar tape every month... Unwrapping the bar tape is probably not necessary, assuming both of the OP's failures happened as pictured - at the stem. Simply loosening the stem clamp and viewing the clamped area of the bars might show any cracks. But I don't know how fatigue cracks in overtorqued AL tubes (assuming that's the cause) originate and propagate. If they start on the inside of the tube, they may never be visible, or the failure rapid enough after they become visible that inspections would be effectively useless. | |
| Dec 31, 2022 at 12:14 | history | answered | juhist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |