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Right, this is the situation; a while ago I had a little oopsy on the bike which involved sliding down a road whilst sanding the end of my handlebars and my knee off.
I tidied the bar end up trimmed the damaged bit and gently sanded smooth and put it away in a safe place.
now the main points are it's a silly light bar (salsa promoto carbon).
it's going on a singlespeed so I'm going to be hauling all over it
it's had a sliding impact rather than a full on slam into something.
So am I going to:
A- Be alright
B- End up holding 2 broken carbon sticks on the first grunty climb I come to and make a bit of a mess of myself
C- explode in a horrific carbony doom and enter the darwin awards as a complete spanner (still possible even if the bars don't get me as the home bodged brakes or forks might well do 😕 )
it's your face, and your nuts.
use them, what's the worst that can happen?
D. Explaining to the pretty nurse in A&E how the tube like object ended up shoved up your poopshoot
I'd go with them after a slide/grind, but what do I know eh? Your decision fella.
I nabbed a broken Easton Monkey lite bar of a good mate after the same happened but from the top of the car - 15mm had splintered off the bar end so I sawed 16mm of each end and stuck it on my HT race bike - been using it for a year now and all is well 🙂
excellent so in general STW stylee the answer is yes/no/maybe/should be ok. 😀
At least if I tear my face off it'll be an improvement in the looks department and the photos of my suffering will bring joy to all