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Are my bars bent?
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[QUOTE="RM_guy, post: 1475804, member: 20652"] I'd say your bars are bent. Okie's right in that it's probably not the bar mounts on the triple clamp. You can see where the knurled part of the bar (between the 2 clamps) crosses the center if the steer stem so that looks straight. They are bent outside of the clamps. You said you had a pretty nasty fall. If the bars are hit in the right place they can bend easier than you'd think...it's better than cracking the triple clamp. Some bikes have rubber mounted bar clamps that go through holes in the triple clamps and they will take the load and bend but your bike doesn't have that so the bars bend. It is normally not recommended to straighten bent bars because there was obviously some yielding going on for it to stay as bent as they are. They will flex somewhat before they take a set and stay bent so I'd say they probably moved at least twice as much as you see now before springing back to where it is. Once aluminum yields it can break pretty easily the next time it takes a hit. Steel is the same way but a bit more resistant to sudden failure. To illustrate this, take a paper clip and straighten it out. You can flex it to a point before it will stay bent (like a spring). Then bend it a couple of times up to 90° and back to yield the material. You actually will need to go past 90° to get it to stay at 90°. It won't take much to break it. [/QUOTE]
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