Originally Posted by
jcf4i
Meat gazer. so your telling me that all 800mm width protapers have equal pullback?? So carmichaels arent 55. reeds 65. mids 60. this is all off top of my head. ill post some charts proving u wrong when i get home.
u also say pullback isnt a measurement of the bars bend from center of middle, to center of the bar ends. giving u the bars pull toward the BACK of the bike? i can find that diagram too. protaper dot com SON..
SON
no homo, dont get it all tangled and twizzled. the length of bar from the end to the first bend is the same on all the 800's. More back pull prevents you from pushing the brake in towards that bend. On that suzuki/ktm I was able to free up.... maybe 1/2" or more compared to some of the other bends that I checked out that my buddies had. Why would you want more backpull that the suzuki/ktm anyway? Its a stunt bike, not a beach cruiser.
When I hit up PT about their bars, they said that all the bends are in the same location so that means the center of the bars where they mount to the clamp are the same width to the first bend and the control surfaces are the same length but the first bend does interfere with mounting. Alot of guys are grinding down their master to get it on the bend but I didnt want to do that and not all levers have the adjustment to accommodate that type of modification. When you grind the master and put it on the bend, now your lever is closer to the bar and not parallel to it so now you have to bend your lever.
