Need advice on clip ons

[Dubyasellors_imp]

Hey Dubyasellors,
I’ve been really happy with the clipons for the most part. I think they look great and have endured the riding position for greater than 2,000 mi (3,200 km) rides in 5-6 days with minimal discomfort, or at least similar discomfort to OEM bars. One gripe with my Tarozzis is that they attach to the fork with a single Allen head bolt and it feels like even once you torque the heck out of that bolt, the bars can still slip a bit when you’re pulling the bike up off the kickstand, or muscling it around the garage. As you can see, the top triple clamp could use a replacement to clean up the holes left from the removal of the handlebar clamps and all the cables should be shortened. I haven’t had issues yet but am sure the brake and clutch hoses will be problematic in the future with the aggressive angles they are now bent at and the throttle was a bit finicky on the return cable until I found the sweet spot to clamp it. Once I get some more money, I want to replace the hoses with steel braided lines and will shorten cables or push slack back into the headlight bucket if possible to clean the look up. If sloppy lines are my second gripe, my third gripe is the clearance. It isn’t great as you can see in the contact and dent pics. Only affects the slowest manoeuvres when backing out of parking stalls, etc, but it’s not great. I do think I’d do it all again even with the complaints though, I think this bike looks bada** with the clipons and more aggressive stance.

The first dent pic is kind of hard without context, so I zoomed out further to capture where on the tank that dime sized dent and pin head rust point at the middle are. Probably can be resolved with a cheap rubber grommet, etc, but I have yet to add that fix. Hope this helps and encourage you to give it a try!


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Thanks for the reply run-tmc-

I also saw someone one YouTube that had his gas tank indented by a body shop to allow clearance.. not sure if that would arise any other issues but that might be a solution to the clearance. Thanks for the heads up about the cable issues!!