25.4mm drop bars

[Anonymous]

Speaking of standards, any recommendations of drop bars that will work in a
25.4mm stem?

LBS sells 3T (3TTT?) but they appear to be 25.8. Sheldon says this might work - anybody got any
experience with this?

cheers, clive

[Pete Biggs]

Clive George wrote:
> Speaking of standards, any recommendations of drop bars that will work in a
> 25.4mm stem?

Not recommendations but 25.4 drop bars are still available from
http://www.sjscycles.com/store/vIndex.htm

> LBS sells 3T (3TTT?) but they appear to be 25.8. Sheldon says this might work - anybody got any
> experience with this?

It might work but it's bad practice to mismatch by more than 0.2mm. Stem would be in danger of not
clamping correctly and may fail or get damaged. I would not risk it and get a new stem instead so
good modern bars can be used.

Most current 3T and ITM drop bars are 25.8. Most other decent drop bars are now 26.0.

~PB