Originally Posted by
Schwinnsta
No, he is not changing handlebars to wider ones. He is just adding the extender. The torque stays the same. Where the torque is applied to the axis does not matter.
No one said that he is changing the handlebar to a wider one. All throughout, including the example above,
the assumption is of constant handlebar width. You are obviously still not understanding how the moment-arm is increasing. The installation of the extender is effectively increasing the moment arm. And I have shown you exactly by how much, from 29cm to 30.1cm for a 580cm wide handlebar and an 8-cm extender.
You mean where the
Force is applied. We apply a
Force which results in a
Torque. The resulting
Torque is the product of the
Force and the
Moment-arm. If you apply the
Force at the end of the handlebar at the grips, the Moment-arm is greater than if you apply the same Force closer to the steering axis. Again, look at the formula. Torque = Force x Moment-arm