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I have always insisited that my bike has a handlebar, not a pair of bars! It has just the one, which goes right through the middle and out the other side

I was disappointed to read the technician in the latest CTC mag and other posters on here refer to handlebars in the plural!

Anyway it's a tube, not a bar

And are your handle bars attached to your front* forks?



* why do people so often refer to them as "front" forks? Surely, if we ignore the old manitou sus fork, there is seldom found a rear fork on a modern bike?

Si wrote:front* forks?

A pair of forks is no doubt modelled on a pair of trousers, which I've never understood either. Have you ever seen a single trouser? Or, for that matter, a single underpant? I do, however, have a washing-machine's load of single socks!

sheldon, as always, has an answer

mrsbloomsburybarton wrote:Anyway it's a tube, not a bar

i believe that when bikes were first invented, (before they needed to be called ordinaries, because there was only one sort) the bars were just that, bars. and like measuring gears in inches, cyclists are a funny old bunch who like to use terms that were outdated around 1890.

speedsixdave wrote:I do, however, have a washing-machine's load of single socks!

send me photos. i must have some you need and vice versa

Hubbers

Still not a pair of bars. Two unidentical bars as far as I can see.

does a pair of something need to be identical?

can you not think of a pair of things, one bigger and lower than the other>?

or am i talking............

Pair of legs, breasts, etc! They're not identical!

...to be sure I shall look into the issue!

Ahh nuts. Just re-read your post more carefully Hubgear and you beat me to it!

speedsixdave wrote:

Si wrote:front* forks?

A pair of forks is no doubt modelled on a pair of trousers, which I've never understood either. Have you ever seen a single trouser? Or, for that matter, a single underpant? I do, however, have a washing-machine's load of single socks!

Well trousers, I believe, comes from the days when the legs were indeed seperate garments that were tied together to keep them up!

.

hubgearfreak wrote:sheldon, as always, has an answer

Whoooa! theres that brickbond again .

I can see it through my binoculars

Speaking once to someone that knows something .......

Pipes are different to tubes.

Pipes are folded-over flat sheet.
Tubes are drawn.

Mick F wrote:Pipes are folded-over flat sheet.
Tubes are drawn.

twaddle

pipes are specified in their internal diameter size
tubes in their OD, maybe with a reference to wall thickness

Twaddle? Don't you Twaddle me!

Well, perhaps you can. Maybe my mate was wrong, or I remembered it wrong.

Sounded quite knowledgeable though, didn't I?

hubgearfreak wrote:sheldon, as always, has an answer

would you not smack your face on the bar when tucking down???