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GasGas' are defective
The handlebars arent up to a 3m dead drop
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Nice one. On the positive side your barkbusters seemed to have held up nicely.
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2011 Gas Gas EC300 38mm, 2008 Husky TE610, 2003 Beta Rev3 250 |
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One big question........ was a helmet cam running?????
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Steve 16 Beta 350rr 04 KTM 525 sx/exc gone 03 KTM 625 sxc-rehab unit-did its job and now gone 03 GG 250 ec-gone 97 GG 250 ec Gone |
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I pulled a pair of Renthals off my bike this winter to find a 30mm crack in the area where yours broke. Better to break in a dead drop than in the whoops or a sharp hit at speed.
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rite were the tie down goes,,,hhmmmmmmm! use soft webbing or inner bark buster mount,,not the first time ive seen this,,,also says it on pro taper warning,,didnt read mine till it was to late too,,,,OUCH
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The bars turned to the right in the crash so the bark busters didnt take the hit, but the subframe did
No, the camera wasnt running, would have looked impressive though, kind of a ghost ride backflip 180 flair. My thoughts exactly GMP, whoops are dodgey enough as it is. Randy, iv heard about the tie down warning aswell, never given it a second thought untill now. What do you mean soft webbing? The tie downs I use dont have a hook on the bars, they have a cloth loop. Guess you can figure where this is going now, what bars can you recommend, and what bend? Staying with tapered bars. I can get Renthal, Tag, Pro Taper, probably others. |
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Its a fatigue issue. The break is at the flex point. Flex aluminum enough over time and this is what you can expect. Inspect the bars often.
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Yeh, or maybe bounce your bike high enough and this is what you can expect and having ridden with (well, behind usually) Noobi a few times now, the inevitable spectacular crash is what you can expect!
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ive heard the twinwall renthals are too stiff , never tried a pair. if you want to drop some big cash ive never heard a bad thing about flex bars , someday ill have a pair....
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Are you saying 3m as in 9 feet? At speed or did the bike just fall out of the sky? Onto the end of the bar? I suppose you could have hoped for a pretzeled bar instead of a broken one ...
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