Are they usually expected to be accurate? Or are they purely decoration? Since they’re only there to make the act of bar chopping a more accurate process, you’d expect them to be correctly positioned would you not?
Now it’s not something I’ve ever though about before but I’ve just got a bar that’s 800mm wide and I thought about trimming it. Pipe cutter in hand, I noticed that the cutting guides are very visibly on the piss.
I’ve got alternating small and large dashes to indicate 5 and 10mm increments. The trouble is the first 10mm mark is 9mm from the edge on the right hand side and a whopping 13mm on the left.
I know if I’d just gone ahead and sliced I never would have noticed that I was riding lopsided bars. And I’m not incapable of measuring my own cuts. I just think I might have bought a shonky bar. The stem is the same brand and was really hard to bolt together with two of the holes not quite lining up! They look cool but I’ve come over all disenchanted by my cool new bike.
The world is a mess.