jimvandeveld
Bronze member
Just a friendly warning-
I purchased these bars last week from SZ, and when i received them I forewent my SCS and swapped to ICS with the hopes of using the integrated clamp that is included in these bars. During my first flat session, as I'm sure most experience with ICS, my headset became super loose. After another couple hours, after lok-titing the hell out of the compression bolt and tightening the shit out of it, it still came loose after just a couple bar spins. I decided to cut my clamp off and just run the bars in my SCS, but quickly came to find out that my baby scs has an inside diameter of 1.355" and the tubing on my steel trees has an outside diameter of 1.395", so that even when stretched to the max my scs still couldn't fit the bars. I actually had to take them to work and use a pedestal grinder to removed the .040" just to get them to fit. So, the bottom line is that I did get them to work, but the wall thickness on the tubing of the bars is only .075" thick, and I had to decrease that to .055" in order to fit, and with a 30% decrease in wall thickness, i am hoping that the strength isn't compromised. Otherwise, these bars are awesome, and if you're using threaded compression, a functional ICS, or are pretty small and don't put a lot of stress on your headset, they are great.
I purchased these bars last week from SZ, and when i received them I forewent my SCS and swapped to ICS with the hopes of using the integrated clamp that is included in these bars. During my first flat session, as I'm sure most experience with ICS, my headset became super loose. After another couple hours, after lok-titing the hell out of the compression bolt and tightening the shit out of it, it still came loose after just a couple bar spins. I decided to cut my clamp off and just run the bars in my SCS, but quickly came to find out that my baby scs has an inside diameter of 1.355" and the tubing on my steel trees has an outside diameter of 1.395", so that even when stretched to the max my scs still couldn't fit the bars. I actually had to take them to work and use a pedestal grinder to removed the .040" just to get them to fit. So, the bottom line is that I did get them to work, but the wall thickness on the tubing of the bars is only .075" thick, and I had to decrease that to .055" in order to fit, and with a 30% decrease in wall thickness, i am hoping that the strength isn't compromised. Otherwise, these bars are awesome, and if you're using threaded compression, a functional ICS, or are pretty small and don't put a lot of stress on your headset, they are great.
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