During the late 70's and 80's I drilled bars for people that wanted cable housing to run through them. The thing that I found was that it was very important not to knick the interior opposite side of the bar with the drill bit. I figure that I did about 100 bars thru this time period. I never had one break. All of the bars went to local consumers, and members of the racing team that I sponsored.
Cheers,
Peter Koskinen Chapel Hill, NC
-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of kim klakow Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 6:46 PM To: Steve Birmingham Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: RE: [CR]Drilled handlebars
Also works very nicely if you use a brake cable itself. Since they are stiffer you can work them through quite easily and the just slip the housing over it. Once you have the housing through, whip out the brake cable and, viola! I rode a bike for several years when I decided to change the brake levers to aero ones. To my surprise I found holes under the tape which I then went on to use for my levers. Looked very clean and surived my 225 lbs. sprints very nicely. SR somethingorother 44cm.
kim
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