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[mirocu]

Already?


Btw, how's your bike?


No, I didn't have The Room in mind there

[Sakiri]

It's unridden. I have trouble mounting and discounting. I can't lift my leg high enough. The handlebars are still loose, despite tightening to where I'm afraid to tighten more.

Sighs.

[mirocu]

That's a bummer. It was so nice, it needs to be ridden!

[Sakiri]

Dude, I tried to get on it in the living room. Trying to get off again after discovering loose handlebars, I fell over.

It was embarrassing.

[mirocu]

Gotta be a way to fix it.

[Sakiri]

I want someone else to look at it, but there's literally *no one* here that deals with bicycles. Everyone works on their own.

[mirocu]

I see ghastley, maybe he has a mod for it!

[Sakiri]

Lol

[Dark Reaper]

I have influenced Reaper with my links to the Sailor Moon theme song

I've been a fan of Sailor Moon for a long time, like when DiC aired the censored version for the first time on US tv's .

[mirocu]

In Soviet Russia, Sailor Moon is a fan of YOU!

[Dark Reaper]

In Soviet Russia, Sailor Moon is a fan of YOU!

Cool .

[ghastley]

I just took a look at the handlebars on my own bike, and there are two connections that have to be tightened for the vertical axis. One is for the handlebar height, but if loose, lets the handlebars turn without the wheel. The other is there because on mine, the forward extension is separate from the pillar, so it can also let the bars turn without the wheel.

If yours is similar, you may be tightening one joint when the other is loose.

(Interestingly, the US manufacturer has the torque requirements printed on each in Newton-metres.)

My old bike had the pillar and extension as a one-piece L-shaped casting, with only one place to tighten for turn.

[mirocu]

ghastley to the rescue; called it!

[Sakiri]

I've torqued the crap out of these things. I don't have a torque wrench so I gotta go by ear so to speak and I'm absolutely terrified I'm going to overtighten.

What happens is when I put weight on the bars the whole thing twists downward, like if a hunge was closing. But I can't find anything I haven't tightened. They don't twist, they pivot.

The seat clamp is also not fully tight but the creaking it makes when I tighten makes me afraid I'll break it and this seat clamp is part of the frame. I break it, I can't easily replace it.

[ghastley]

Ah, the other axis. There will only be one joint that way. Which could mean that the bars are the wrong diameter for the extension. Once you've closed up the gap, there's no way to get that any tighter.

Newer standard handlebars have a 31.8mm diameter in the middle, bulged out from the rest of the bar, and both road and mountain bikes use the same size. Older standard bars are 25.4 or 26.0mm depending on road or mountain, so fittings for one would be almost, but not quite, on the other. So if you have a 25.4 bar and a 26.0 stem, you'd have the possibility of closing the clamp fully with the bar still loose.

[mirocu]

Well, you have a laptop so if you're in bed you have no excuse not to be here!

[Sakiri]

It's not a 25mm bar, because the 25mm bell they sent with it doesn't fit.

I'll try to get a picture of the head tube. The bar isn't rotating, but rather the thing feels like it's folding.

It's a CUBE town n sport and the thing was near fully assembled when I got it. Just needed to twist the bars and attach pedals.

https://imgur.com/a/KrOYfJF

Two angles. Let me know if they're not clear.

[ghastley]

The bar won't be the same size all the way along. The middle is generally a bit larger than the rest. It gets complex - see here and look at the number of different diameters used.

That bell may fit in a different place along the bar! Though more likely is that you have a mix of sizes here that don't go together, and the bell is just another instance.

[Sakiri]

It doesn't. Whole bar is 32mm. And theres no convenient spot for it. Right side has my gear shift, left side has the control pad for my bike's computer(electric bike).

The middle of the bar does appear a bit thicker, but there doesn't seem to be a place I can put a 25mm clamp.

Bells are required here in Sweden. Despite no one hearing them. Earbuds, cars.

I was going to order a 32mm bell but forgot when I ordered the rest of the stuff.

There's two bolts under the head clamp there. I might be able to tighten those more, but I'd kill for a torque wrench.

This post has been edited by Sakiri: May 27 2020, 09:03 PM

[mirocu]

I do hope you'll be able to get your bike together soon. It's sad it has to stay inside the house