Good Bar Extension Idea? May Cost Some Money

[James_Lettenmaier]

I was riding my friends dirt scoot, and he wanted wider bars for his dirt scooter, the bars are 21 wide and he wants 24 wide, anyway. I was looking at "thread tapping" earlier, I kind of figured, why not tap the inside of the bar, and just get a big enough bolt, also being long enough to be able to thread into the bar with some extra tubing over the rest of the bolt, so basically you are tightening a bolt on each side that will secure a large "spacer" like tube onto both ends of the bars.

But I am thinking, that what if the handles are not thick enough to tap, but then again, how deep would the threading need to be, to be tapped into the handles?

 

[Robert]

might as well just buy new bars

 

[James_Lettenmaier]

might as well just buy new bars

that could be a solution, but it seems like putting threads into some bars, would not cost too much, i do not mean buying tubing, like if you had some old unwanted handlebar laying around, trim that to size and use that for the extension.

 

[Killa Krew]

If they made thread on insides of bars as standard and fucked off bar ends like tilt grips that would be perf

 

[emil_rides_street]

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[Aussiebro]

Not 100% sure but I don't think you can get a tap big enough

 

[Ian Hotchkiss]

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[Bror Svensson]

I love you!

that way you will have an big bolt sticking out and it will not feel very good when you fall, I suggest doing it this way

 

[Madis]

if you're willing to drop some money, then just pick up some old shitty bars, cut some pieces off, go to a workshop and get them welded on to your handlebar.
It's just that simple. No bolts, no bearings, no bullshit.


I don't think any welder could ask more than $5 for a work as little as this.
Just make sure that if you're gonna make a chromoly bar wider, then the pieces have to originate from an old steel or chromoly bar as well. If it's an aluminium bar, then the pieces have to be from an old aluminium bar.

 

[Jman]

Yeah welding is the way to go. I extended my friends bars with some tubing cut from an old bicycle frame.

 

[emil_rides_street]

that way you will have an big bolt sticking out and it will not feel very good when you fall, I suggest doing it this way

That actually doesn't matter
Just be a man and take it how it comes

 

[adeq98]

I bought Rad T bars which were 18'' wide but I wanted them 23'' wide. So i went down to Nut & bolt shop bought two big bolts that fit tight in the end of bars. Then I've cut off the heads of the bolts. I found some old batiwngs and cut 2.5'' from each side. Now if the bolt is half threaded then you hammer the bit of bar halfway onto the bolt and you hammer the threaded part of the bolt into your bars. DONE!

 

[Madis]

^ this still sounds just way too much work for a set of bars that may eventually become loose and unstable. Just get your extensions welded on. The result is gonna be way cleaner, lighter and less work.

 

[KyrinBingaman]

I heard of someone taking sockets and hammering them into the end, I think it extends it by like 1-2"

 

[Frank T]

use a wooden dowel. its so sturdy wont break 10/10

 

[Scoot_scoot_]

A really good one i found is to use a long axle and nut, bearings, and odi barends. you just put how ever many bearings you want on the axle, put the end of the barend so it's just the actual part that goes in the bars, you can use 2 to make it stronger, put them on the axle, and then tighten down with the nut and you're good to go. Sorry if this doesn't make much sense, but it works amazingly.

 

[adeq98]

^ this still sounds just way too much work for a set of bars that may eventually become loose and unstable. Just get your extensions welded on. The result is gonna be way cleaner, lighter and less work.

It's not that much of work and it is really solid and it's also really cheap. And when there is more weight added on the ends of the bars the barspins are so much nicer.

 

[SamDybeck]

I've been using bar extensions for a while now, i found the best way to make them is by taking apart any screw-in metal bar end(Animal,ODI,etc.). then you take off the "cap" part that sit on the edge of the bar and replace it with district aluminum pegs or 5/8 sockets then screw them back in.

 

[ChrisFleugel]

I've been using bar extensions for a while now, i found the best way to make them is by taking apart any screw-in metal bar end(Animal,ODI,etc.). then you take off the "cap" part that sit on the edge of the bar and replace it with district aluminum pegs or 5/8 sockets then screw them back in.

i do the same, but with old bearings as apposed to pegs or a socket. seems to work well for me

 

[SamDybeck]

i do the same, but with old bearings as apposed to pegs or a socket. seems to work well for me

I've tried bearings before and they always spun when i rode