since i just crushed the tail one my bike i want to throw a 12bar on. I want to fab it out of tubular chromoly, and make it contour with the shape of the tail, so it looks more like a grab bar.

My question is, how will the rounded shape effect the functionality of the 12bar?? Every other 12 bar i have seen is flat. Opinions please.

 

powers stuntworx makes one called the pro bar. I was looking into making one alot wider

 

its not flat therefore the bike will not roll idle on it .it will however save the back of your bike and let you go much farther back in o's etc. looks much cleaner and wont chop your head off when you flip a endo. thats my

 

Yah I agree with ^

 

here is a pic of my friends bar he made. but alotta companies sell round bars.... i like his though cuz u can still do the normal flat plated 12 bar tricks but if you would flip a stoppie you dont have a 350lb meat cleaver comin at your head

 

You dont need to use tube you need to use solid... And why use chromoly?

 

+1 there is no need for chromoly at all!! what you need is some 7/8 solid round bar plus it will bend easier than tube to make fab work simpler.

 

Helps with the fab And you wont have sharp edges after it grinds through the tubing.

 

Honestly, round bars are WAY easier to drag


I've NEVER dragged my 12 bar more then 20 foot, and that was scary as ****.. Most the time it tosses me when I hit it, so I just tap and go...


Within 30 minutes of riding my friends bike with a round bar, I was throwing it back on the bar at 40mph and scraping for a block+ EASILY...

I started getting comfortable with it and was getting back into the throttle

 

O for shure i have no idea y anyone would use tube for a round bar?? that is

 

Cause they are like the people i deal with everyday at work... They have no clue what they are doing and think they can build anything. Sorry not trying to be a dick to the guy that started the thread

 

+1 flat bars are very unforgiving and ****** suck to learn to scrape on unless your already controlled scraping tail, go round bar... i picked myself off the ground quite a few times when i had a flat bar... but your learning curve might be faster than mine.

 

the flat 12bars look do hard to scrape evenly, thanks for that info.

I will stick with the 7/8" solid steel thats a good call.