When I first got these bars I thought they were an old pair of Muscle bike bars that someone had welded a cross bar and gussets on after installing a Webco stem, but after I stripped them I realized that they were not chrome under the paint nor do they look like they were factory painted. After looking even closer I think they might have been custom made. The gussets were definitely brazed in by an amateur, but the main portion and the cross bar appear to have been welded by a professional welder or at least someone that knew what they were doing. They were not factory made for a single stem, there is a sleeve welded on the bottom to accommodate a single stem and from the looks of it that same person welded the cross bar in them after the Webco stem was mounted in place. One other thing that makes me think they were custom made is the tubing stripped clean and looks like Chrome Moly, it’s hard to tell in the photos but I don’t think they are mild steal.
My question is what kind of person or who would have had a custom pair of bars made back in 75? Box bars were out by 75 so you would have had to be into BMX pretty heavy at that time in order to have a pair of bars made. They are wider and taller than any factory BMX bars at that time, 25” wide and 10” rise. They did come from the west coast so it is possible but??????
