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