Crash and risk of handlebar breaking

[Brink]

I crashed my road bike about 2 weeks ago going 22 miles per
hour. My bikes seems fine except for the bar tape is scraped
up a little. I was thinking that it might be a good idea to
remove the tape for inspection of the bars. My other thought
was maybe I should replace the bars.

Any thoughts about the bars.

thanks ---Brink

[Paul Southworth]

In article <b9d3c907.0407051010.1357a7ab@posting.google.com>,
Brink <brinkmatthew@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I crashed my road bike about 2 weeks ago going 22 miles per
>hour. My bikes seems fine except for the bar tape is
>scraped up a little. I was thinking that it might be a good
>idea to remove the tape for inspection of the bars. My
>other thought was maybe I should replace the bars.
>
>Any thoughts about the bars.

If the bars are straight and don't have big gouges, they
should be fine.

[Just Zis Guy]

On 5 Jul 2004 11:10:53 -0700, brinkmatthew@hotmail.com (Brink) wrote
in message <b9d3c907.0407051010.1357a7ab@posting.google.com>:

>I crashed my road bike about 2 weeks ago going 22 miles per
>hour. My bikes seems fine except for the bar tape is
>scraped up a little. I was thinking that it might be a good
>idea to remove the tape for inspection of the bars. My
>other thought was maybe I should replace the bars.

It can't hurt to have a look, since you need to replace the
tape anyway.

Guy
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