Nitto fail to face-plant scorpion

Coming down Parkway last night, my handlebars decided to snap in two!

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Jesus. Maybe try duct tape?

that's well dodgy. same thing happened to me 2 years ago, snapped clean in 2 where the bars meet the stem, on fulham rd in rush hour. the wrong diameter bars were fitted by my lbs, so the metal gradually warped and finally tore. these were cheap bars though.

that's well dodgy. same thing happened to me 2 years ago, snapped clean in 2 where the bars meet the stem, on fulham rd in rush hour. the wrong diameter bars were fitted by my lbs, so the metal gradually warped and finally tore. these were cheap bars though.

Yeah, I've seen it happen by the stem/shim or when someone has clamped a brake on too tight. But this was a quarter in.

this is making me worry about my Airwings with 26.0 clamp I shoved in a 25.4 stem.

don't tell us, tell Nitto

If you don't want that stem any more I'll take it off your hands.

You could always cut the other side off to match and have ultimate fixie skidder rep with micro short bars? (Sorry not being very helpful, must have been scary, did you swerve like crazy?)

You could always cut the other side off to match and have ultimate fixie skidder rep with micro short bars? (Sorry not being very helpful, must have been scary, did you swerve like crazy?)

Haha yeah.

If you don't want that stem any more I'll take it off your hands.

I'm going to keep the stem, cheers Sumo.

don't tell us, tell Nitto

Love to. Anyone know a good link? It's not as easy as I thought.