any experience with China clip-on bars?

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Hi Guys, I recently just bought a pair of clip ons, and am a little concerned about potential safety of them.

the bars in question are here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251188552778

though the machining quality is quite good, and the ad claims they are 7075 T6 Alloy, I have doubts whether that is actually the case, or a cheaper alloy, to me they feel a little light for the amount of metal involved.

Im wondering if anyone has had good or bad experience with these? last thing I want is a bar to fall off if it hit a big bump somewhere.
 
I've got them in silver. I'm hoping they're not shit ;)

I'm also very impressed with the quality.
 
here's a little story about china and metal.

a friend of mine became an apprentice at a tool&die shop, and bought a set of h.f. drills, he asked the guys in the shop about them and they said they're probably shit, but since M2 is M2 they could be resharpened better and be fine if he didn't have the cash for a good set right then. so as it turns out, after actually using them for real machining work, on real steel (4140 and tool steels), those drills wouldn't punch through a 1/4" plate without being resharpened, where borrowing one of the real steel drills would put ten feet of water line holes in 4140 without squealing or being resharpened. so what I gather from that story is that in china, M2 is not M2, and for what it's worth, any other alloy probably isn't what it's supposed to be either.
 
i did use some of them on my kz for a while....
only reason im not now is because of the new front end...

dont use the bolts they come with....
first of all the bolts are shit quality, i got stainless jobbies from a local fasteners supplier instead

secondly.....the bolts they supplied were too long,
when i was torquing the bolt that tightens the bar.

..SNAP....

the bolt went through the aluminium block into the fork behind it pinching and snapping....
i easy-outed the bolt after half an hour it was out....
next time i used shorter bolts....=no problems..

moral is get new fasteners....but dont torque those better bolts down too hard.... or you'll rip that chinese thread to shreds...

hope that helps
 
sinbad85 said:
i did use some of them on my kz for a while....
only reason im not now is because of the new front end...

dont use the bolts they come with....
first of all the bolts are shit quality, i got stainless jobbies from a local fasteners supplier instead

secondly.....the bolts they supplied were too long,
when i was torquing the bolt that tightens the bar.

..SNAP....

the bolt went through the aluminium block into the fork behind it pinching and snapping....
i easy-outed the bolt after half an hour it was out....
next time i used shorter bolts....=no problems..

moral is get new fasteners....but dont torque those better bolts down too hard.... or you'll rip that chinese thread to shreds...

hope that helps
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That right there is reason enough not to use them. If hand tightening the fasteners is enough to rip the threads out, imagine what the forces of daily use will do.
 
jrswanson1 said:
I have not had problems with the Emgo bars, but they're made in Taiwan, not mainland China.
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Here is what I've experienced in my years of importing stuff. Mainland china complete garbage. Taiwan and Japan decent quality stuff. Metal specs that come out of China are never what the actual metal is. There is no quality control behind it form what I have seen.
 
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