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FreaK
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by FreaK on Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:15 pm
Fiery wrote:Cut an inch or so off the ends of the drops. The hooks will stay usable and safe, and you'll lose a dozen grams at least.
I forgot about that one. Back in olden times of the WW board, i remember that being a hack at least a couple people used. I think one of the Gunther Mai builds was like that. Then again the clamping area of his levers is hacked down too, i'm sure it saves weight but it sure looks like squishy braking.
it's actually possible to come to the conclusion even before realising it makes no sense at all
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tymon_tm
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Marin
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by Marin on Thu Sep 24, 2015 10:41 am
sungod wrote:ftfy
Yea, designed for holes. My sources tell me that they actually started with the holes in this case and extroooded the bars right around them
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mattr
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by mattr on Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:22 pm
Well, they'll have the right thickness of material for drilling the holes, they'll probably use a CNC machine to do the drilling, then they'll have any treatments (ball burnishing etc) and the edges of the holes will be deburred and stress relieved.
So yeah, "designed for holes"
But you knew that
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kman
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by kman on Fri Sep 25, 2015 4:43 am
I often trim an inch off my bars.
I drilled the inserted section of a seat post once (alloy), it didn't save much so I can't see it doing much on a carbon bar.
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