Thanks for so much detail, really appreciate you posting this

Some q's and thoughts: re cutting them, I dunno because I seldom use non-powered saws, but when I tried cutting my old (black) vultus bars I just put them in a large table-vise, ... more »

Could you do me a solid (fugasrmemes ;P ), and measure that to lmk how wide they are? I remember that, before cutting my last vultus' to 26-26.5", I'd seen a bike-check where the bars were crazy short width, I liked the idea and went with it, but in ... more »

I do this when cruising, in fact I almost got the XL odi's so I could have grip around the arc (and protect my chrome finish lol, when I bail over my bars they always end up banging, I know I'm going to ruin this finish real quick lol), but that's when

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Yeah I'm gonna do it that (progressively cut them - going to start with 28-28.5", will go shorter the next time I swap grips *if I want them shorter*) I hear you re your first paragraph, that's the rub of it, wide bars are great for some things, shorter ... more »

It matters! lol of course it does ;D I think of it the same way, ie as something that's tied to a rider primarily by their shoulder width, but the small amounts of bar-length variance we're talking about make it useless to try measuring shoulders and ... more »

What do you think, do those wedges need to be a specific distance apart on the bolt or will they just 'wedge in' as I tighten the stem? Am so confused on how this thing clamps!

http://imgur.com/a/AviTZ That ^ page has two images, each is a picture from underneath one of my frames, the first is my midBB from my united, the other is the frame shown above - the mid BB from the first picture flares out at either end, is that a ... more »

Thanks, that's my thoughts here, am gg give this a shot but will re-tighten my pedal spindles into the crank arms beforehand so there's less chance of them coming undone when I remove the other end! [edit: just had the idea to practice on some of my ... more »

Part of me is thinking that, the other part of me thinks this will be super-easy and i'm off-center on my spindles til I do this, so I'm set on doing it lol. Regarding riding with the cranks on the wrong sides IE with the pedal spindles going into the ... more »

these do have sealed bearings... the pedals are symmetrical opposites so I think that, as long as I can remove the plastic body from the spindle, I can do what I'm intending to. Re the direction, I'm just going to guess lol I've got a 50/50 and there's ... more »

I am - I thought that orange bike in your avatar looked familiar, I'm presuming that's the one with the double-bolt seat-clamp? :D

I've considered them before because I want the strongest chain, but for as many people that back them there seems just as large a crowd of detractors! KMC though, especially the 410hx and 510 series, don't ever seem to ever get talked-down on, I mean ... more »

Will do! And in the post above this one (I don't know how to multi-quote - does this site allow that?) I wrote out the serial# but interesting thing - it's not on the BB there are no inscriptions there, I finally found inscriptions on the inside of the ... more »

yknow my United su2 and my Kink transition, neither follow that pattern...anyways I tried looking for the serial# and it's not on the BB, it's on the inside of the rear dropouts! Never seen that before, surprised I missed it!! It may be preceded by an ... more »

haha no way, your pedals should not be moving on their own! And while I love a tight chain, if you're experiencing pedal-spin but then have the chain tight enough that you've stopped that....that chain is going to be hating life right there! A proper ... more »