i have broken the small woodruff key on my handle bar

[tundra]

this night i would raise my handlebar, so i try it, but the handlebar dont move further than the stock position, i look closely and i find a small key in the u-turn of the handlebar, near the mounting bracket.

i have pull just a little bit, not that much, and cloak... the small key break.

there am suppose to be worried about that ? or is not that bad, what is the utility of that key.

but with my handle bar a little bit taller, this help a lot in powder riding.

i hope that is'nt a worse thing, that thing i have broken .

Someone know ?

 

[1xr]

As long as the bar bolts are tight I can't see a problem, unelse it pulls the cables or wires too far when the bars are turned one way or the other. That small key is just a rivet and a spacer.

 

[tundra]

thanks ,

i have turn it over, but i keep a slack in the wire.

 

[Mountaintech]

Tundra, It is common practice to break (like you did) or remove rivet so that the bars can be positioned in a more upright position. We've been doing this for years out here in the West. RX FUN