Not finished yet … Sorry …
A bit of bad planning on my behalf, but I started to wonder about crimping the Ti bars with the bar ends, asking a few questions on here confirmed that it be the most probable outcome :-( but could it be avoided with the use of BERTS
2 sets of BERTS soon turned up courtesy of ekiborter
As it turns out the BERTS are for the Titec / Bontrager 118g butted bars where I had the 150g plain gauge bars and the Ti flex stem bar / stem combo – therefore the diameters were a little bit big and they needed turning down to suit.
I found (what I thought at first to be useful) information on the bikepro site about the Titec diameters and wall thickness etc but the sums / measurements / components didn’t match up :? :-(
Taking an average ID of the bars and a average wall thickness based on 22.2mm OD my bars measured came out with a ID of 20.35mm
I turned the BERTS down to 20.32mm (I have access to a lathe again
) which allowed me to push them about half way in by hand before they got really tight. This seemed like it was going to work well so I covered them in Loctite and whacked them in
Standard BERTS and one modified BERT at the point where they got ‘tight’ :
I know 271 isn’t really supposed to be a ‘retainer’ but A) it’s the best I had at home and B) I don’t think they will move, even without any Loctite on at all
After practicing on the Titec bars (for another project ;-)) I set about the BERTS for the Marin (meaning the stem had to come apart, again …
)
So onto the controls etc – really happy with the finished look of the machined mounts :
The grips etc are on now to but no pics :-(
After looking around for ages for the correct forks, guess what I found NOS to keep as spares (courtesy of sstoz_tes) …
WD
