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does anyone know how bars are made?
to me they're just a piece of bent pipe that i should be able to tool up to make quite simply - or is it a much more involved proceess
is heat involved or is it just the bending of cold tubing - i want to make some up with my own bends - some extreme randonneur noodles and ultra deep drop track bends and low pro bull bars but with some tow in (chopped flopped maes always seem to tow out) and large flare north road / randonnuer - that kind of thing.
any idea what gauge / grade (4000 / 5000 /6000 grades) of alluminium - or should i be looking at steel ? 4130?
has anyone out there done this? i 'm hoping i can use a plumbers pipe beding machine as long as i can get the tools to get the radius's i want - or am i dreaming this is ever going to work out?
in fact i've not looked yet but do most bars use a series of constant radius bends or varying radius (i just imagine it being easier to get graded radius tools )
i'm going to experiment with bedning some cheap sakae road champ maes into rnadonneurs with a more extreme flare first and see where it goes from there
anyone any experience in this?