All the stress riser and structural integrity talk is informative, I learned a lot that I never considered before. Buttt tons of those roll stamped bars are still on the road after all these years, along with plenty of bars that got deeper scratches than I etched just from bodging them into stem clamps or falling over in day to day use.
True. But dentistry can be expensive if things go wrong - plenty of other real estate on your bike to doodle on which might not have such catastrophic results if they failed?
All the stress riser and structural integrity talk is informative, I learned a lot that I never considered before. Buttt tons of those roll stamped bars are still on the road after all these years, along with plenty of bars that got deeper scratches than I etched just from bodging them into stem clamps or falling over in day to day use.