So tonight I came out to the garage and grabbed my magnet hoping to find that the bent handlebars are made of aluminum. They are! I am familiar with the process of annealing aluminum as I do it at work when I'm making braces like these.
So I took a level pic of the bike and handlebars and was able to determine where the bend was and just about how much. Here's the pic I used with level lines.
So I took the bars off then bike, put them in the vise and got them nice and hot in the area I wanted to bend. Pulled out my trusty pipe wrench and went to town. I had to do two bends. It's not perfect, but it's pretty damn close. Feels natural and hard to tell the difference. Here's a pic after the correction has been made.
The new bars come Monday but I'm hoping to get out to the track with my son on Saturday.
So I took a level pic of the bike and handlebars and was able to determine where the bend was and just about how much. Here's the pic I used with level lines.
So I took the bars off then bike, put them in the vise and got them nice and hot in the area I wanted to bend. Pulled out my trusty pipe wrench and went to town. I had to do two bends. It's not perfect, but it's pretty damn close. Feels natural and hard to tell the difference. Here's a pic after the correction has been made.
The new bars come Monday but I'm hoping to get out to the track with my son on Saturday.
If you stay all day you'll get 4 timed practices in and it does get packed because it's a D6 ultimate series track so racers look to get as much seat time as possible to get better race results. If your kid is a new rider you are better off at Etown.
