For Sale: Wooden Handlebar

For sure somebody buying something out of wood does know that wood can break and if you don't want to live with that just don't buy it, same thing with carbon handlebars!

But going here after me like this, insulting me and calling out to burn me, because Of a product,does NOT belong under a buy/sell thread

Burn him is a joke relating to wood...

sensitive much?

No, carbon bars are stress tested and assuming correct installation there is a manufacturer liability if they fail.

Stress test for how many cycles? Carbon tend to fatigue with time so the stress test out of factory don't tell you for sure how long it will last. It only tell you the component can take the stress test for 50 cycles.

Liability is sooo easy to get rid of with carbon parts, impossible to prove once it broke that installation was right (mean if you install yourself as many here, liability is over). You can even say "sry our handlebar are only compatible with our stem".

good job nobody used the word faggot....

^ Homophobe!

Guys he's just tryna sell some bars, leaf it out

i think only apollo seems to know what's at stake here, using one of these could leaf you needing some root canal work.

Wood chipping in here with some advice help?

Your bars have been done before, and didn't prove particularly popular then. If you've got skills with carpentry then do some research and come up with something that isn't an already proven failure, make it, sell it, suck seed.

suck seed the same as getting wood?

How about knocking up a nice jousting pole with custom bike fittings and a boxing glove on the end,should speed up the London commute and provide hours of innocent(ish) entertainment,no need to swerve peds on mobiles,lunatic scooter rders etc etc...

"Right, dinner was lovely, now to sell those wooden handlebars on London's LFGSS. They love that kind of shit on there…"

C'mon wooden bikes are perfectly safe with the right gear...

Is there a splinter group ?

http://cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/161061590-thierry-germain-a-french-carpenter-poses-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7QWi6s9MIdenx7u58ozsGz4xrLFSy5rrXm4oaBbN19o%2B%2BAuadhG7LvNa8Crcrz%2B5HSA%3D%3D

Nice collection of bannister rail ends. Some are quite extravagantly shaped, a bit too big and ostentatious if you ask me. Not sure they'd all be fitting in my passageway, spacious as it is.

http://deeleedoo.com/

Theres a project thread here where a forum member had built (and crafted) a wooden frame. He didn't get the same stick as Pingo.

Not a fan of the material in bikes either but each to their own and all that.

Do you know the reason why theyre either upset or taking the piss?

AFAIK - The simple answer is that wood bars are unsafe. Wood tends to break suddenly, while metal fatigues and bends (Mostly). Last thing a cyclist wants is their bars to give without warning.

Plus its something that isnt new. Its been tried. It hasnt worked.

But good luck with your sale.

wooden handlebars can and have worked, BUT it looks like these ones are just a teak broom handle with no lamination and i can speak as beta tester for wooden handlebars that this technique won't work - don't do it unless you love pain and possible death, as an educated forum we should recommend these are for display purposes only and don't risk anyone riding them with the possibility of failure. soz dude, it's just not responsible given the history

if you still want some though a quick google shows these which look pretty good

http://www.behance.net/gallery/3019979/Curved-wood-handlebar

;d

these... look pretty good

No.

^^^^ There is a pretty big difference between somebody with an almost mad, ambitious, plan to make something weird and cool for themselves and somebody selling curved, wooden, potentially unsafe, dildo bars isn't there?

I always like the people who create these projects for themselves, whether it is a homade cruise missile, a car that runs on cola, a ponytailed dude who makes his own standing MRI machine, or even a self-built wooden bicycle.