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<blockquote data-quote="BigredGrizzly" data-source="post: 212557" data-attributes="member: 4538">So tonight I came out to the garage and grabbed my magnet hoping to find that the bent handlebars are made of aluminum. They are! I am familiar with the process of annealing aluminum as I do it at work when I'm making braces like these. <img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170405/f770d1cf2b52ce0a6cb1121bb6a21a9e.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170405/45f8aa3bb90346882ae65a8ae85ef36e.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />So I took a level pic of the bike and handlebars and was able to determine where the bend was and just about how much. Here's the pic I used with level lines. <img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170405/f3691ebda43f33575fc4405802cd382d.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />So I took the bars off then bike, put them in the vise and got them nice and hot in the area I wanted to bend. Pulled out my trusty pipe wrench and went to town. I had to do two bends. It's not perfect, but it's pretty damn close. Feels natural and hard to tell the difference. Here's a pic after the correction has been made. <img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170405/d764b17045857a98089a1f8af7485cec.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170405/3e04b720d52c2f9596539c5d037ccb5a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The new bars come Monday but I'm hoping to get out to the track with my son on Saturday.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BigredGrizzly, post: 212557, member: 4538"] So tonight I came out to the garage and grabbed my magnet hoping to find that the bent handlebars are made of aluminum. They are! I am familiar with the process of annealing aluminum as I do it at work when I'm making braces like these. [IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170405/f770d1cf2b52ce0a6cb1121bb6a21a9e.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170405/45f8aa3bb90346882ae65a8ae85ef36e.jpg[/IMG] So I took a level pic of the bike and handlebars and was able to determine where the bend was and just about how much. Here's the pic I used with level lines. [IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170405/f3691ebda43f33575fc4405802cd382d.jpg[/IMG] So I took the bars off then bike, put them in the vise and got them nice and hot in the area I wanted to bend. Pulled out my trusty pipe wrench and went to town. I had to do two bends. It's not perfect, but it's pretty damn close. Feels natural and hard to tell the difference. Here's a pic after the correction has been made. [IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170405/d764b17045857a98089a1f8af7485cec.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170405/3e04b720d52c2f9596539c5d037ccb5a.jpg[/IMG] The new bars come Monday but I'm hoping to get out to the track with my son on Saturday. [/QUOTE]

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