On 06/08/2015 08:23 AM, Deacon Patrick wrote:
Yup. The wrong bars melt at 96.7 miles. Upright bars more rapidly and without warning. No heat build up. Just good and solid one moment, molten knee scalding drops oozing off the bar ends the next.
Actually, I had something very much like that happen to a set of drop bars on my 3-speed commuter. I'd just arrived at work, and was dismounting when the bars drooped. Turned out, the left hand side had cracked through just by where the stem clamped it. One can only imagine how that would have gone had it happened while I was just riding along (JRA).
And last sunday, 7.5 miles into a 75 mile ride, I'd stopped at a red light and was just starting up when CLINK and there I was standing over the bike in the road. My left hand crank arm was lying in the road, the bottom bracket spindle having broken off where the left crank arm attached. Again, just think about how that would have gone had I been JRA -- no need to imagine, because it happened on a different bike Dec 2013, about 2 miles after having left the rest stop. Spindle broke, right hand crank arm flew off, bike veered off the road, I came off and did a tumbling roll on the gravel and ended up in someone's front yard face down a couple of inches from a big pile of dog poop.
Seriously though, there is only one way to find out. Some things that work for for 70 miles feel wrong at 80 miles and you have to figure out how to make it work. There ain't no way to know till you get to the distance you will be going. Grin.
On the other hand, if it really doesn't work odds are you're going to know it long before 70 or 80 miles. I've never managed to get farther on flat or city bars than about 40 miles before my hands are totally numb.
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