Need advice on clip ons

[Nortoon_imp]

I did the 41mm Woodcrafts with 2.5in risers (shoutout to kmoney for guiding me through the install).




Sadly, I have bad news... the riding position was too uncomfortable for me and I went back to the stock bars after one riding season. The problem for me was that I have long legs, so that combined with the foot control position of being more forward than a sport bike felt like I was riding a pocket bike (a little exaggerated but you get the point). I would get really bad hip cramps while riding. I'm positive that moving the foot controls rearward would have solved the problem.

Regardless, if you're looking to do it the process is pretty simple. Only thing that I wasn't able to do myself was drill the holes in the bars for the anti-rotation pins; I took them to a local metal shop that had a drill press.

Also, they did hit the tank... barely, but enough to prevent locking the forks to the side.

Ah! Yes I am beginning to remember. The joys of modifying a bike with after market race kits.

Adding any racing part, like clip-ons, to a motorcycle meant buying three other parts to make them work. What are needed with clip-ons are rear set shifting and brake levers to try and make the riding position functional. It never will be comfortable. A foot peg kit might also be required.



I was lucky as I was able to use my passenger foot pegs. The modified brake pedal worked, but the modified shifting mechanism was balky. I ended up just reversing my shift level. One up and three down was great for drag racing. But three up and one down was awkward and dangerous on a British bike with poor brakes, as you had to rely on downshifting to reduce speed. Grabbing a handful of front brake at speed resulted in a front wheel wobble. Stomping on the back brake locked the rear wheel up and produced a spectacular but unnerving slide.

It's all coming back to me now.