Flared my Boscos

Still tinkering with my grocery getter. I got a trailer for my dog that I’m going to pull with this bike and wanted to make the Velo Orange Copenhagen kickstand work for ease of loading. However the Sugino cranks I was running were too narrow and would clip the kickstand on the NDS. Found some Deore cranks and am running Sugino rings I had laying around – 24/38/42. In making this change I tried some other flat bars I had, and installed these microshift thumbies I found at the co-op.

Didn’t like the reach with the flat bars, played with a 110 and 90mm stems on a threadless converter and then ended up using this old quill stem. This Giant has a 1-1/8” threadless steerer so it’s a little limiting.

But ended up going back to the Bosco for the rise and made a go at flaring them out for a little more stability. These are the cromo version so they were incredibly hard to bend. I clamped the ends between two pieces of wood in a woodworking vise and used my legs to lift. It did sort of squish at the ramp a little bit so I’ll never be sending single track but it made them way comfier and less twitchy.