rad bars destroy forks?

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JackS

Member
umm.. no i have some rad bars and i reinforced my fork and nothing has happened.... so the ppl telling u this arent rite
 
Matt Dibble

Matt Dibble

M3MB3R
Staff member
Off topic:

i have reinforced forks with t-tube and i was getting real pissed earlier and i was riding with broken forks... it was awesome... the t tube was so stuck in there... i could ride with it in.. it would slide out a little and junk.. it was really rad though.. it was rad. lol
 
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Steezeman

Administrator
When I didn't tighten them enough they slid up and made the top of the fork tube kinda ovaled but it didn't break them. Just reinforce them.
 
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JoshToy

Member
JackS said:
umm.. no i have some rad bars and i reinforced my fork and nothing has happened.... so the ppl telling u this arent rite
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That tells you right there. You can't judge for everyone considering you have a reinforced fork.

I have a set, haven't had any problems as of yet. But I will be reinforcing my next fork if it does indeed snap on me.
 
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coryM

Member
the only prob we had when we tested what that if you tighten too much the clamp pushes in on the sides of the slot. so since the steer tube on forks is paper thin it can ovalize. this only happend once to cary. but has also happend to him with normal bars too. i think its easier with rad bars cause the chromoly is harder then the aluminum. please let me know about any problems. because we are already changing the design to make them better. and hopefully soon they will be on Kc's site. so far the top bar will be thicker wall tubing and now that im hearing about smashing forks maybe we will try different ways of sloting the clamp area.
 
brandon kilbury

brandon kilbury

Super Moderator
the first fork that anything happened to was reinforced..and the part where the wheel is bent sideways, nothing to do with the bars anyways, but last night my headset locked up, so i pulled the bars forward and up and they slid off a bit, so i pulled them the rest of the way off and it bent the threads in on one part, so it was like impossible to get the nuts off the threads, it wasnt ovalized but like this little notch where the threads bent in like 2 mm
 
brandon kilbury

brandon kilbury

Super Moderator
find a wooden dowel like a mm too big, sand it down until it sort of fits, then hammer it in, or some people i guess what put t tube pieces in their forks or something idk
 
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VillageFox

Steel Member
yea, just make sure its in there good. because if its not it will fall out and hit your front wheel, and that wouldnt be good.
 
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coryM

Member
i said it before but we rad kids got some heavy duty tubeing welded inside the steertube. so we dont snap steertubes anymore :)
 
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Dylan Kasson

Steel Member
yea my rad bars are done for they bent i just looped out on a manual and my scot flew only like 5 feet in the air and then the part where yu put your hand on is like bent straight down
 
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Stan (GTR)

Member
yea ima get RAD forks custon from cory and roll on them coolie parts! RAD dont destroy the forks the forks destroy them selfs cuz they suck fat cock!
 
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whoopa

Member
(: Dylan :) said:
yea my rad bars are done for they bent i just looped out on a manual and my scot flew only like 5 feet in the air and then the part where yu put your hand on is like bent straight down
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damn that sucks. i have thrown my scoot had it hit the groung on bars and nothing happened my bars are soooo dank. as for forks i have broken one fork but thats because i had ridden that fork already for like 3 months so idk :D

edit: id recomend in buying them forshur man what a difference
 
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