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Pro Tapers Rock!

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hughes:

--- Quote from: dmg on January 06, 2010, 03:45:53 PM ---Riding at Lucerne last week: Buddy launches his CR500 out from under him, it goes up 5 feet, lands on the back wheel, comes down on its side, and it bent the s**t out of his ProTapers. They didn't break, and the bike was rideable, but they were very bent from what I would call a fairly small crash. (For the record, last year, he cracked off his stock bars at Lucerne, so he is really hard on bars)

I have the ATV mids on mine right now. I am 6'1" and I needed the height. I like them so far.

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Can you post a pictures of your bars on your bike? I need a higher bend myself and was thinking of the ATV bars but sure of how they would look/perform or what height to get. Thanks.

cbxracer30:
I thought Pro Tapers were to be unbendable until we bent them three different times in one night . The only good thing was by the end of the night , I loosened them up rolled them up and they were almost perfect , haven't messed with them since.CBX

dmg:
http://www.kxriders.com/forums/index.php/topic,6830.0.html

There are some pics of my bike in this thread. There is one specifically of the bars.

hughes:
All bars bend if your crash hard enough. The Pro Taper 1 1/8 inch bars are desinged to not bend as easy and give you a better change of picking your bike up front a crash and have straight bars so you can finsh your race/ride.

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