How to fit drop handlebars

Schweet! Got the bars and brake levers off last night. I starting wiggling my new Molodo's on and the anodised were coming off. Leccy tape it is.

Top Sketch Sketetonboy.

looks like scratched bars are the order of the day then !!

From experiance I would check for burrs on the inside of the stem and sand them down before said twisting and wiggling. I have a irritating zigzag stratch on the (luckily) underside of my Ambrossio bars. Its deep but on the extra central part of the bars so I'm assuming (well its blind hope really)that its not going to lead to a structural problem!

bars are designed to be taken out at a specific angle. without poatochop I cant do a diagram, but basically underneath the front bolt, there is usually a semicircular cutout on either side. this is designed so that the *inside *curve of the bar goes through more easily. So the diagram above should be "push and turn anticlockwise"

bars are designed to be taken out at a specific angle. without poatochop I cant do a diagram, but basically underneath the front bolt, there is usually a semicircular cutout on either side. this is designed so that the *inside *curve of the bar goes through more easily. So the diagram above should be "push and turn anticlockwise"

I can concur with this,

the tubing of the bars is not usually perfectly round, neither is the opening of the stem.

If you get jammed along the way, reverse and rotate a little..

When you get more stuck, do the screwdriver thing above

I remember how hard it was taking my first pair of bars off, scratching the crap out of them. Although im looking forward even less to fitting my newley sprayed white drops into my new black cinelli stem, especially as I dont want to use grips :(

FLATS it is!!