On Friday, June 22, 2018 at 7:10:45 AM UTC-5, Ron Mc wrote: > > there's no mechanical disadvantage to shortening a bar - safety isn't an > issue >
I think the problem is that to make an aluminum (maybe also steel) bar with a small enough outer diameter for mountain bike-style brake levers, the inner diameter is too small to fit bar end shifters made for drop bars. Just a small portion at the ends of the bars are made to have thinner walls, allowing the the shifters to fit. So, one could follow Joe's instruction to measure the space in the bar, but one must measure only the thinned-out portion. The bend is not the issue here. Alternatively, Lester's advice to ask people who actually know the answer to the question (Rivendellians) is sound. I vaguely recall Grant having written at some point that there's not much available to cut off. -- Mark Anderson in Chicago -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
