{"id":1521,"date":"2010-05-31T18:32:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T01:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/broken-handlebar-repair\/"},"modified":"2021-11-25T06:52:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:52:27","slug":"broken-handlebar-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/broken-handlebar-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Handlebar Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>While in New Zealand, I broke the handlebar on my KH24. The thin tubing failed due to too much stress on the joint. The braze held up fine, and it broke right above it. While in NZ, I quickly re-welded it together (temporarily) with a MIG welder and a face shield that I totally couldn&#8217;t see out of. The result was a weld that held up for a few months..but that was about it. So, it finally broke again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8794.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8794-tm.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8794.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I cut the bad part off the handlebar part and ground some of the paint away. Notice the replacement tube in the right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8795.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8795-tm.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8795.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took off the part that attaches to the seat post and ground off the junk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_87981.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8798-tm.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8798.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fix is a larger diameter tube that the regular one can slide into. It is thicker, and should make it last longer. I cut a 45 in the tube (NOTE after using it: 40 degrees, or less, would have been better):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8801-tm.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8801.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a few swipes of a 1\/2 round file I had a fishmouth that fit perfectly:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8803.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8803-tm.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8803.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I braze it together and powder coated it red:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8807.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8807-tm.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8807.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The angle is a little too steep, but it works again!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_88091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8809-tm.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8809.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in New Zealand, I broke the handlebar on my KH24. The thin tubing failed due to too much stress on the joint. The braze held up fine, and it broke right above it. While&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/broken-handlebar-repair\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[131,60,166,18],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unicycling","tag-adventure","tag-handlebar","tag-new-zealand-2010","tag-unicycle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/IMG_8794-tm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7035,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/7035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}