Originally Posted by
Bigbus
Not sure what flare is being referred to here as the blade will push the metal inward, not outward, but definitely use a tubing cutter if you have one available. Assuming it's a metal bar. BTW-you do realize that the trend in MTBing is going wide on the bars, even though it makes the trails feel a whole lot narrower haha.
It is a long time since I have looked at tube cutters, but in the past the ones I used had a taper on each side of the blade. When these finished the cut there was metal edge sticking out a bit as the tube end would have the same taper as the blade. If your tube cutter only has a taper on one side, then conceivably filling will be less significant, but even so I would probably still run a file around the inside and outside edges.