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Title: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: snav69 on November 04, 2008, 02:38 PM: Just having a rumage around the shed and came across these that have been hanging around for longer than i can remember ::) What do you reckon the joints are held together with ??? welding or brazing :-\ they are pretty light bars too that are 26.5" wide and 8.5" rise , if they are reynolds i will probably get them rechromed or sell as is, if not they will probably go to the tip :LolLolLolLol:
What ever the jointing method is it looks shite :10_2_12: :2funny:
as always , any help greatly appreciated :)

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Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: fouronethreeoh! on November 04, 2008, 04:42 PM: Im gonna say brazed, also holy c r a p :shocked: how many dia compes have you got.
Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: snav69 on November 04, 2008, 04:50 PM: Quote from: fouronethreeoh! on November 04, 2008, 04:42 PM
Im gonna say brazed, also holy c r a p :shocked: how many dia compes have you got.

Cheers :daumenhoch:
the dia compes :-[
Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: animal on November 04, 2008, 06:24 PM: that b braizing ;) but not of the top class variety as on Curtis etc . nice bars tho :daumenhoch:
Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: snav69 on November 05, 2008, 09:09 PM: Quote from: stevencosta on November 05, 2008, 09:05 PM
:shocked: :shocked: :shocked: holy fook how many diacompes have you got

Thats not all of them either :-[
Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: dannywhiteley on November 06, 2008, 10:02 PM: They look just like some bars I got on a Prolite. Very similar to my Reynolds bars but the quality just wasnt the same. Think I ended up tipping them. The brazing/weld looked exactly same and they felt very lightweight (but not in a good way if you know what I mean).
Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: snav69 on November 06, 2008, 10:21 PM: I don't think i would try riding with them as they are far too light for my liking ;D and the joints look like a friday afternoon rush job before clocking off for the weekend :2funny:
God knows what they are but the company couldn't have lasted churning these bad boys out :-X
Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: dannywhiteley on November 07, 2008, 11:26 AM: Same as the ones I had then. I bought the prolite and binned most of the parts, but was hoping that the bars were reynolds (they look identical to my Reynolds 531 Rebel Xpert bars). When I received them it soon became apparent they werent Reynolds, they just felt awful.

The Reynolds bars are beautiful and nicely weighty. Those above feel like they would easily snap with a bit of abuse.
Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: dannyboy on November 19, 2008, 09:55 PM: well you slipped up there i can clearly see the missing 1000s in red you dirty thieving midlander :2gunsfiring_v1:
:2funny:
Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: snav69 on November 19, 2008, 10:02 PM: :LolLolLolLol:

Thems the ones off the Redline RL :knuppel2: and will soon be going straight onto the Skyway TA i just bought :smitten:

I'm gonna give Robin Gibb a ring and ask him to nip to yours and whack you in the nuts with a hedgehog :shocked: :2funny:

:-*
Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: dannyboy on November 19, 2008, 10:20 PM: sry m8 he dont live here anymore someother rock star has bought his house mine had white cables anyway or id be round by now intimidateing you with a large
stick :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: snav69 on November 19, 2008, 10:30 PM: :LolLolLolLol:
Title: Re: Brazed or Welded Bars - POS ?
Post by: peteox on November 21, 2008, 07:39 PM: I'm not really sure, except i think 531 has to be brazed but 501 can be welded.
What i really wanted to say was "No wonder i can't find any DC's, You've got them all !!