What do these bikes cost?

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:14:43 -0700,
, Dane Jackson
wrote:

Was there no previous indication it was failing?

None. The 3/4 mile was all up-hill from my house. So I was putting a
fair amount of torque on the bars to start up and stop a few times.
There were no noises or wierd feelings in the bars. The bike has never
been crashed (AFAIK). So this was totally out of the blue.

Man, that is frightening.

Short of some rather sophisticated metallurgical testing there's just
know way of knowing.
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zk

Dane Jackson wrote:
Zoot Katz wrote:
Dane Jackson wrote:

I was riding my grocery bike, pulling the trailer.
I came to a halt at a stop sign, about to pull onto a major
arterial.
I realized quickly I had a problem when my left handlebar came off
in my hand. It had snapped clean off about 2 mm from the edge of
the stem.

Whew!, that's too close. Somebody's lookin' out for you.

Was there no previous indication it was failing?

None. The 3/4 mile was all up-hill from my house. So I was putting a
fair amount of torque on the bars to start up and stop a few times.
There were no noises or wierd feelings in the bars. The bike has
never been crashed (AFAIK). So this was totally out of the blue.

Was this a carbon handlebar, or aluminum, or...?

Bill "old Monkey Lite on the fully" S.

Bill Sornson wrote:
Dane Jackson wrote:

None. The 3/4 mile was all up-hill from my house. So I was putting a
fair amount of torque on the bars to start up and stop a few times.
There were no noises or wierd feelings in the bars. The bike has
never been crashed (AFAIK). So this was totally out of the blue.

Was this a carbon handlebar, or aluminum, or...?

Just the stock aluminum handlebar that came with the bike. It was truly
a nasty piece of work. The drops are slightly too small for my hands, it
is equipped with suicide levers, and it has this nasty rubber coating in
place of bar tape. If it wasn't for the fact that it had the odd French
sizes (22.0 stem), I would have been shut of it earlier. Time to break
out the sandpaper.

Pictures: http://pinko.mommie.org/gallery/brokenbar

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