Build Your Own Tall Bike Without Welding

Step 10 Steering Column

There are lots of ways of doing the front handlebars, this is what I like.
It's not very stiff, some people find that unnerving.

I'd like to take pictures of what's inside the steering column,
Unfortunately the metal bits have all corroded together so I can't easily take them apart anymore.
Instead of the headset there's a stub of steel pipe bolted into my fork tube.
It's cut off at an angle at the bottom so the original angle nut can bind it in place with the original headset bolt.
The aluminum tube seen here is slid over that steel stub and clamped in place with the gooseneck from the original headset.

This particular aluminum tube is thick and springy. It doesn't get bent like stiffer tubes tend to, it just springs back.

Comments

[AronC0816]

I got bored so I drew up a diagram of what he did to attach the handlebar stem. I had thought this same idea up a while ago but never went about doing it.

[Mr.Sanchez]

Thnk U so much ...you clear the concept.

[Nkevin90]

sorry, but this step has me bewildered; what do you do here? jam the big pipe into the steerer tube and then what? I don't understand how it tightens. and once I understand that, I'm making two of these; my friend and I bent our old frames, so flipped upside-down, they should work fine as great tallbike cruisers! props on this, but I'd love to know how to fasten it.

[TimAnderson]

The original method seen here clamped the tube over the stub of the headset. A simpler way is to jam the handlebar column pipe in the steerer tube, poke it out the bottom, drill a cross-hole and put a bolt in it.