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My bars are 29 wide. Too wide. I'm thinking about cutting them down, maybe to 27. I know I should use a pipe cutter, but how should I mark out the length I wanna cut? I don't think it will be that accurate if I use a marker. I was thinking maybe painter's tape? Who's trimmed their bars? What did you do?
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I used the edge of the pipe cutter...the tape should work fine
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just measured how far I want off each side, marked it with a marker, stuck the end of my bars in the clamp then into a vice & took a hacksaw to the bars but made a small scratch to make sure it was where I wanted it, then cut it.
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sundaybmxRR wrote:one of these
just measured how far I want off each side, marked it with a marker, stuck the end of my bars in the clamp ...more
how much did that cost?
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I just use a hack saw and a C clamp to hold it down, that always worked fine for me.
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hmuifulikefriedchicken wrote:how much did that cost?
Not sure, I used the one at the shop haha
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I had a set of bar ends that went over the ends of the bars. I filled it out so it slid down the bar, marked and cut with a hack saw using the barend as a guide
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i just took my grips off marked roughly with a tape measure and hacksawed away id advice doing it at small cuts as you may go straight for 27 and realise there quite short
