[CR]What is Lurking under that handle bar tape

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From: "Charles Nighbor" <cnighbor@pacbell.net>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:03:15 -0800
Subject: [CR]What is Lurking under that handle bar tape

What is Lurking under that handle bar tape

While changing parts from one Colanago to another Colnago I removed the handle bar tape from the Cinelli handle bar. What to my amazement there before my very eyes was a long crack from the separate tube at the stem location into which the bars insert all the way to the middle of the drops. I had this bar since say 1988. Wow. I recommend looking under that bar tape once in a while. A failure was not from from happening. And it would not happen while the bike was just sitting.

Charles Nighbor

Walnut Creek, in CA of course

PS Bar now in outside recycle trash