New bar concepts!!

[Riley Hughes]

Hello.

I just had an idea. What if you had a chromoly steerer tube, with a starnut in it, and you put a cross-bar on, and compressed it on? no welds. let me draw something on paint to help explain hold on..

it would be like a simpler form of buffs. like..

this: buffs
ics: scs

idk i think it would be worth a shot it would be easy to change crossbar size.

 

[RyanNew]

maybe

 

[isaac123]

wat if i wanted to use my cute barends?

 

[ridescooters3]

Don't you think it would come loose?

 

[MitchellHamilton]

wat if i wanted to use my cute barends?

Get barends that clamp on the side of your bars

 

[Steezeman]

Like a bolt going down from the top of the crossbar into the steerer? That sounds like a terrible idea.

 

[Joe Manson]

the starnut would pull right out

 

[Riley Hughes]

okay now that i put up pictures now what do you think? i think it would work if you didnt have the money to get new bars, or something.

 

[KieranPeterson]

I think it makes it way too complicated. Sorry. Welding or buffs are just too easy for this idea to carry any weight.

 

[Steezeman]

the starnut would pull right out

Definitely. Star nuts are used to compress your headset, only as tight as you can turn an allen wrench. They're not made to take the stress of your entire body weight.

 

[Remco]

there is another option:

- Make wee-style bars, but only the big tube with the gussets welded on them, so it creates a little bowl to lay down your crossbar in.

- when your crossbar is finally set in to place, get two clamps that will fit over the crossbar and gussets.

- tighten the clamp on each side.



This way your bars will be solid enough to shred the gnar, but still be optional with different crossbar widths.

 

[Riley Hughes]

Definitely. Star nuts are used to compress your headset, only as tight as you can turn an allen wrench. They're not made to take the stress of your entire body weight.

it's not meant to take the stress of your entire body. the nipple-style hole in the bars takes all the force of the bars going whichever way.. the bolt just keeps the bars from moving.. i think it would work i'll try it and let you guys know.

 

[Blake]

So it will be basically like a bolted crossbar?

 

[Tobias Hunter]

I though of this as well the other night!

 

[Jacob D.]

I think buffs use this exact same concept without the hassle of compression