How Do You Extend Handlebars

[rab shropshire]

I have heard of people making their bars wider how is it done.

thanks

[PaRtZ]

You get an Ali C on one end, and a Damon watson on the other, and tell them to PULL!

no, you can get bar extenders that go in the ends on the bars..or you might like to make your own from some suitable dowel

[Revolver]

What I imagine is done... picture a bar end, one that goes inside the handlebar. Now imagine the barend being the same diameter as the rest of the bar, and being a few inches in length.

Although I guess you could just machine down a piece of bar to fit and weld it on...

[Christophe']

you dont! its silly and dangerous,

you buy new bars!

x

[Muel]

It's perfectly safe as long as you don't extend them more than about an inch either side.

Get some wooden dowel that's just too big to go down the bar, sand the end to have a bit of the bevel on the edge, then hammer it down inside about 2-3", then cut off the legnth you want from what is sticking out, wrap tape around it until it os the same width as the bar, fit your grips, then take a permanent pen and colour in the end of the wood so it's black.

I ran mine like this for over a year! Never needed any work doing to it.

[rab shropshire]

thanks for the replies lads il give the wood thing a go

[Matt Vandart]

It's perfectly safe as long as you don't extend them more than about an inch either side.

Get some wooden dowel that's just too big to go down the bar, sand the end to have a bit of the bevel on the edge, then hammer it down inside about 2-3", then cut off the legnth you want from what is sticking out, wrap tape around it until it os the same width as the bar, fit your grips, then take a permanent pen and colour in the end of the wood so it's black.

I ran mine like this for over a year! Never needed any work doing to it.

I f**kin loves it!

Proper old school bodgeing!

Matt

[PaRtZ]

I f**kin loves it!

Proper old school bodgeing!

Matt

to be honest I don't know of any other way to do it!

[Matt Vandart]

Aside from welding me niether!

I love it!

Matt

[Muel]

It ain't bodging you peasant! It's constructive use of existing materials!

It's very light, it squashes slightly so it holds onto the inside of the bar, and it's relatively strong whilst still allowing some shock absorbtion when it's needed.

[Matt Vandart]

Cool you should make em and sell em, you could put that as part of the spec!

Matt

[MikeCottTrials]

I dont see much point, for me thinner bars are better strange, but i find with thinner bars i get more power with minimal balance loss.

In fact i would say there is virtually no loss of balance

[PaRtZ]

I dont see much point, for me thinner bars are better strange, but i find with thinner bars i get more power with minimal balance loss.

In fact i would say there is virtually no loss of balance

Could you say on a balance beam 4 ft off the ground?

You're right about power though, shorter bars give better power. If you think about the extremes, having 30" wide bars, if you move your left arm forward 2", the wheel's not going to turn as much as if you bars were 4" wide. I guess thats what they mean by better balance, you have more control over the angles of which the wheel turns?

I dno

[jambo]

My mate got some nylon extensions turned on the lathe in his work and he has been running them for the best part of a year, solid as a rock!

[Cotty08]

Id Just invest in some new bars if i was you :') prefrebly the new trialtech risers

thanks cotty

[chrishayton]

A lathe and a piece of cylindrical wood is what i used, and made two plugs like:

-----,_____

____,-------

(you get the idea)

[Papa Manual]

thanks cotty