About to cut bars - cold feet

Right, as per another recent thread I've gone and bent my Nitto RB021 bullhorns. The right side has both been pulled lower and inwards (somehow).

Anyway, I'm sitting here contemplating cutting them down to make them shorts, which is a conversion I was considering anyway, but obviously not with these bars.

Am I being a little handicapped by getting cold feet? I'm just wondering if there is anyway of saving the bars, getting them re-bent into normal position (I guess nigh-on impossible), but am concerned that they are probably now prone to stress fracture.

Also (as per below) they aren't flat and do angle downwards slightly a few cm out of the stem, A problem for riding with when short? I just don't know.

Shall I just do it and be done with all this 'fannying about'?

how did you bend them? I personally wouldn't ride crashed bars that were bent more than a few mm.

where on the bar do you plan to cut them? I can't see the point

Aluminum does not take well to being bent back and forth. I would not risk it personally.

Jon, can you not just get some new bars?

Shall I just do it and be done with all this 'fannying about'?

Yes and if you get it wrong it doesn't matter as you need a new set anyway.

i have these mavic bulls that re not being used, yours for a tenner?

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Right. I went ahead and just did it.

BEFORE...

Next, you can see where the cable ripped out from under the bartape.

This next one taken as straight as possible, you can see the bend!!

AND NOW, my silly looking bike after a fantastic bodge-job. I had to hacksaw off with a 20 (no joke) year old saw and the right side bar tape has no end plug, i just folded up some old newspaper to hold it in!! Haha

Anyway, if your interested just thought I'd post them up!

Think it looks less fussy than with the bullhorns and the brake, but obviously I'll be changing the bar ASAP!!

He He look funny out on open road......like one of them London 'get through the narrowest gap imaginable' jobs from about 10 odd years ago

take your numberplate offf the picture dude !

haha flip em over, make some mini risers

car in the kitchen or kitchen in the garage? strange....

car in the kitchen or kitchen in the garage? strange....
there's money to be had in pigfarming-drive's as spacious as a football pitch an most drums on here don't match up to garage ;)

why is there a car in your kitchen?

Seriously though I've got a matching set of bars I'd consider selling to you (except mine are still original and don't look rediculous!)

Pm me if I interested

Yeah, my mother has a problem about ever throwing anything away (hence the need for two sheds), so one day I come home and she's installed the old kitchen into the garage when she put the new one in. Extraordinary! It's now a single garage again! Bloody pointless. Now I've gotta park the fezza on the driveway when I go home! ;)

I took the new setup for a ride this morning and my hands kept slipping off the ends of the bars, hilarious. I've moved them round to sweep back instead, but now you can't see the beautiful Nitto etchings in the middle.

Oh, the problems, the problems!!

yeah flip them up for full-on hipster skinny riser action

Yeah, my mother has a problem about ever throwing anything away (hence the need for two sheds), so one day I come home and she's installed the old kitchen into the garage when she put the new one in. Extraordinary! It's now a single garage again! Bloody pointless. Now I've gotta park the fezza on the driveway when I go home! ;)

I took the new setup for a ride this morning and my hands kept slipping off the ends of the bars, hilarious. I've moved them round to sweep back instead, but now you can't see the beautiful Nitto etchings in the middle.

Oh, the problems, the problems!!

hope thats a mk1 fezza

the right side bar tape has no end plug, i just folded up some old newspaper to hold it in!! Haha

wine cork ftw
i dont have real plugs on any of my bikes :)

Just get some new bars dude, them's look silly!

It looks like a dog that just did a wee on the carpet and knows it was naughty.

calling edscoble for a funky diagram

hope thats a mk1 fezza

..no. It's an F40 LM. Yeah, right. Nope, your not far off tho, kind of, I'm getting a MK1 1.8 MX5 as soon as I find the right one. If your interested...

Feeling slightly upset about the negative comments. Haha. I know what you mean about the pathetic look with the floppy ears, although they do look pretty mean flat as they are now.

I managed to ride in a whole circle backwards as well! Whoa!

..no. It's an F40 LM. Yeah, right. Nope, your not far off tho, kind of, I'm getting a MK1 1.8 MX5 as soon as I find the right one. If your interested...

Feeling slightly upset about the negative comments. Haha. I know what you mean about the pathetic look with the floppy ears, although they do look pretty mean flat as they are now.

I managed to ride in a whole circle backwards as well! Whoa!

so its not far off then its a mk2

furry muff those mx5's are ok

i only ask as i like me fords and have a mk1 cortina

You track at all, or just pose? ;)

The mk1 is going to be a track beast. I've already got a clk supercharger promised to me from a friend who breaking his Merc. But think it's gonna be a little too whiney for the '5, I'll see.

Haven't even got the car and already have a few grand promised away on it! ;)