Elgar style bike handebars change

=================================== Worth a call?:

Last handlebar change I had to do "bought" the bars from a friend (30 mumble years ago). Regarding brake and gear cables only sort of gotcha is to check if the inners should be lubricated or not.

You do realise the "down shaft" wont change, the actual handlebar does NOT include the stem portion.

To be honest, any you could find in a scrappies, recycling centre etc may well have been bent and then straightened again and so have no strength personaly I wouldn't risk that and buy new Here is a picture of what a replacement handlebar will consist of (note no vertical bit) and gives some ide of the price don't know where you live but this is an Edinburgh shop but it will (I think) do mail order

================================== If that's what is meant by 'Elgar' style handlebars then most bike shops will stock a selection, although I think the more common description is 'sit up and beg'. There's a reasonable selection here:

Cic.

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:00:50 GMT, Cicero wrote: Many thanks for the replies & helpful info. - will be checking thse links later.

The beauty of drop handlebars is that there are least three positions on them!

I assume you mean it has an open frame.

Mary

Ever seen the bikes in Amsterdam - really old and very strange upright seating position.

Yes - I used to live there!

Pink with baskets on to carry the shopping?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "John" saying something like:

Flat. Comfort. Short journeys and hard arses.