Also consider how the bars are made at Nitto in the first place (see the article in the Winter 2014 *Bicycle Quarterly* <http://www.bikequarterly.com/current_issue.html>). They are just bent to shape. So a little bending to straighten them is fine.
Of course, if they are truly bent or kinked, you should retire them. If you bend aluminum back and forth too many times, it will break (usually turns whitish first). Jan Heine Editor Bicycle Quarterly http://www.bikequarterly.com Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
