That is normal. That used to happen to me but I changed my stem and tightened it like no other and that doesn't happen anymore.

it might just be a bad stem that i need to change or i suck at tightening things to their max lol. Someone told me i should put cuts into the steam...?

You could try sticking duct tape on the handlebars to make less space.

Duct tape will slip for sure.

Oh really, it worked for my seat post.

You aren't pulling on a seat post.

What do you think will have more friction, steel on aluminum or steel wrapped in some gooey fibers?

grip tape would be a last resort i guess. I think i would get a new stem before grip tape.

Grip tape won't work.

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY DUMB PEOPLE!

alright, ill just take it to the bike shop tommorow and tell you if the bars are fixed

Pay $50 for a lighter more awesome stem if your **** aint working.

The stem he has is just fine. He just needs to get the kinks worked out.

Note the pun.

I had to read it 3 times.

:chuckle:

I think it's funny you are calling other people dumb when the duct tape trick works. Friends and I have all done this trick.
So take your bars out and sand the paint off the bars where the stem clamps to them. Make sure to go with the groves so you do not stand them off. Then look at your stem and make sure the groves on the stem are not filled with paint from the bars. If this does not work do the duct tape trick, or cut up a soda can and use it. Do not keep tightening and tightening your bars they will just flatten star pattern or not.

Wow, you're calling me dumb when you hold critical parts of your bike together with duct tape instead of just tightening it properly? Irony.

I hope your bars slip mid trick and you lose all of your teeth, I'm sure you have good insurance anyways to consider duct taping your bars a good solution to a simple problem.

Well said, good sir.

id rather not cut up soda cans to sand down my bike with and hold the bars on with duct tape, as i said, ill just take it to the bike shop tommorow and tell you if the bars are fixed...

Wise choice. Let them show you how to tighten it properly. I wouldn't count on a piece of duct tape to hold my bars in place.

no luck, the first place tightened it alot more but the bars still moved when i land a bunny hop
the second place, the guy took off the bars, cleaned them and the stem, tightened them in the right pattern very slowly and carefully but the bars still moved. Since i dont have $50 to spend on a new stem, i think im gonna try to contact danscomp and see if they will send me new bars and a stem and i send them my old ones, or see what they can do.
once i get new stuff, im just gonna let the bike place install them so i dont f... them up, lol

also, do you guys think that its the bars and the stem thats defeacted? or just the stem

Stem.

Stizzem.

Well, i just recieved a new stem and bars from kink no problem. I brought it to a bike shop to install it because i don't want to mess it up. I tried it out and the bars still moved!!! They said to just leave it there and they will try to fix it, (remove the paint, ect...) Im disappointed. If it still moves, im gonna have to call up kink and tell them i need a new stem but not the same one that they use with the kink roc. No one in this whole forum has a kink roc...?

If it just moves a slight bit bring an allen wrench when you ride.

no, it moves alot, ill get it al straightened out hopefully

Tell Kink to send you a relief.

You have a lot to learn yet, young grasshopper.