General: Custom handlebars

What kind of handlebars are we talking about? Flat bars, risers, road drops, track drops, cross/dirtdrops, bullhorns, randonneurs, H-bars?

Manufacturing a handlebar, which needs to have consistent balance, stiffness and shape, is not a very easy thing to do by hand - not to mention the difficulty of doing it economically. Flat bars are probably fairly easy, since they can be made from commercially manufactured tubing. In a sense, all those fixie-kid chop jobs (shortened flats/risers, the flipped/chopped drops that eventually became manufactured as bullhorns) are "custom".

The only handlebars I know of that are manufactured by a single craftsman are Jeff Jones' H-Bar, and even he's licensed his design to Titec, which they sell as the Hellbent H-Bar.

In theory, a framemaker might be a logical person to talk to; but anything that's custom-made is going to cost a mint. What kind of handlebar are you looking for, and what is it about the commercially produced handlebars that doesn't cut it for you?

Posted By: gregYamaguchi makes custom handlebars, in addition to many other amazing pieces of bicycling machinery

In theory, yes. In practice:
Currently: We are not taking stem or bar orders.

The only photo is of TT bars. Does Sensei Yamaguchi also do more traditional shapes?

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Im not sure what kind of bars your looking for, but ask this guy on here, http://velospace.org/user/5330, his screen name is aliderkrasse, I know he makes custom bars, but not sure if he will do it or not, and also for what you want.

goodluck

Custom handlebars take a ginormous amount of pressure to form and really neat but enormous machinery to keep them tubes while that's happening.. I'd love to be able to make them, but I could only do composites, and I'd have to do a lot of testing to make sure they wouldn't disintegrate in my hands.

Aliderkrasse makes neat things. I haven't seen him around here lately.

If you are looking for something completely custom, then you can look at some custom motorcycle bar shops, I think they have a standard size 25, so you need a small shim. A friend had a local shop make some old school drag bars for his bicycle. They came out looking amazing, and just about everyone asks where he got them.

1" = 25.4mm, 25.4 needs a shim for all/most stems.