Would you ride these bars?
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Would you ride these bars?
I’m a bit of a nervous Nellie and obsessive about things. I recently picked up and am rehabbing an 87 Panasonic DX-4000 that had these Sakae bars on them. They’ve got a fair number of scratches and being 35 years old, was curious if these would be of concern to anyone else.
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I see no issues here. Ride 'em.
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Likely scratched when installing. To me it doesn't look like anything to worry about; however you may want to pull it to see if there is more damage where it meets the stem. Plan on doing it the next time the wrap needs replacing.
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Aluminum bars can get some pretty serious gashes in them from folks trying to force stems on (especially around the curves where the material is already most stressed from the forming process), yet I've never seen anything so bad that it would make me hesitate to put my weight on them... These look like very superficial scratches compared to a lot of what I've spent time hanging onto over the years.
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Yes, Just the result of someone not knowing how install bars, without scratching them up.
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I would deanodize and polish the bars and replace the stem with a nicer (normal) one.
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IMHO they’re probably ok but….
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The zig-zag marks are light scoring and are caused from removing the bars. A lot of vintage bars have them. The scuff just looks like someone had a computer there. To ease your mind, put one bar-end in a tube that is held in a vice and try to bend them. They'll take your whole body weight without even flinching.