Originally Posted by
tigershark
turns out out the bars aren't bent after all. the shift levers were just bent in and a guy from our club helped reposition them. i guess right when i saw it i immediately thought they were bent because it happened all the time on my steel bike but later i realized it was only the shift levers/hoods.
Great! I intended to suggest the bars might not actually be bent, but forgot...
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