Originally Posted by
dayday82
I contacted Realcyclist.com and they are taking the bars back and gave me a free shipping label.
it was a good lesson learned. Now I will be ordering some alum bars.
Aluminum bars can fail too. The only bar failure I've seen in person was an aluminum bar (broke during a crit). One of my Cutter bars has been wrecked, uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times with out a torque wrench, and is completely fine.