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Cutting bars down?

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Dr.Robotnik:
Pipe cutter blades come in different types for cutting different materials of pipe. Basically they come stock ready for a soft copper pipe. If you have a heat treated (read hardened) steel bar you will have to change the cutting blade.

Best bet is to pop down to your local bike shop and ask to borrow their Park hacksaw guide. This clamps onto the bar/steerer tube and has a slot to position the blade. Nice straight, perpendicular cuts every time.

matt:

--- Quote from: n2cus on November 24, 2009, 09:42 PM ---why why why             why cut bars down buy smaller ones ............ please tell me they arn,t old school bars  :'( :'( :'( :'(

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i couldnt agree more, cutting your bars is like painting tuffs..... you just dont do it,  sorry neil i couldnt resist   :daumenhoch:

Gary72:
To answer the question WHY?
As Mick Jagger once sang  "You cant always get what you want"
If they were old school I wouldn't do it. But I wanted some bigger bars so I bought these ones knowing that if they were too high I could drop the stem or if they were too wide I could narrow them slightly :)
Gary

spleen1970:
Dude use a disc cutter with a slitting disc on it's a very thin cutting disc easy to get hold of will cut through Yer bars like hot knife through butter  :daumenhoch:

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