Making the Handle Bars

Creating the handle bars

Used spline to draw a line following the handle bar shape and then turned the corners into bezier corners so I could round the line out. Then I adjusted the vertices so that the bottom left vertex was inside the pivot. I also adjusted the top vertex so that it was in-between the two bottom left vertices. I then drew a circle using shapes.

With the spline selected I went to the modify panel, selected compounded objects and hit loft. I then selected the circle and lofted the object to make the handle bar tubes.

Next I selected the handle bar again and made a copy of it. Then in polygon mode I selected three polygons at the end of the handle bar and then held down the shift key to select all the other polygons in those three polygon's rows and then deleted them. With the remaining polygons selected I then changed the rectangular marque tool to a lasso I selected every other column of polygons. Then I used extrude and applied NURMS to make the grips on the handle bar.

I selected the end polygon and used extrude and inset to make the button shape at the end.

Used mirror to add a handle bar to the other side of the bike.