{"id":3682,"date":"2014-07-04T06:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T13:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/new-corbin-unibar-unicycle-handlebar\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T13:36:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:36:23","slug":"new-corbin-unibar-unicycle-handlebar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/new-corbin-unibar-unicycle-handlebar\/","title":{"rendered":"New Corbin UniBar (unicycle handlebar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p>I made a new handlebar for my geared KH26. I was using the KH T-bar, but it feels really flexy and it feels like the seat will eventually break from the pressure I put on it. I had already made a slightly longer and slightly wider T for it out of CroMo steel, but it was just as light as the aluminum original.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the new bar, completed and installed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1456.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1456-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1456.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New bar, 352 grams:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1452-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1452.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Old bar plus the seat strengthen plate (not needed with my design):<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1453.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1453-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1453.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, 150 gram savings in weight by using CroMoly steel. And it is a lot less flexy!<\/p>\n<p>Building process:<\/p>\n<p>1. Fabricated a lug:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1430.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1430-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1430.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Brazed it onto the seat tube attachment:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1433-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" alt=\"IMG_1433.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Not shown, brazed on the back tab for the bolt\/cincher<\/p>\n<p>4. Cut a T, made a fish mouth in the end, and brazed on the top:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1448.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1448-tm.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"IMG_1448.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5. Inserted the 22.2 tubing into the &#8220;lug&#8221; and brazed it together. The lug adds strength; I&#8217;ve broken handlebars at that location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a new handlebar for my geared KH26. I was using the KH T-bar, but it feels really flexy and it feels like the seat will eventually break from the pressure I put on&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/new-corbin-unibar-unicycle-handlebar\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3670,"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":[24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-machining","category-unicycling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_1456.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","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=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}