kmoney_imp
Road warrior
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Just thought I'd put up a quick post of my work on the front end so far. All that really remains is to get my Rizoma Club turn-signals installed and she's basically buttoned up as far as controls.
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Just some more detail on the clipons:
They're just 41mm Woodcraft raised clip-ons.
Off the bat: These bars do hit the tank. I knew they would and don't really care -- I just put two small circles of 3M PPF where they hit, and I don't miss any of the steering I lost except for when literally walking the bike backwards out of my garage.
For me the ergonomics of adding these were awesome. I'm 6'4", and riding the CB with stock bars and no windscreen basically turned me into a sail. With these I end up semi tucked and perfectly streamlined behind the screen. In terms of weight on wrists and wind, it's basically like riding a very comfortable sportbike (think f4i or K5 GSXR 1k). You can still definitely out-ride the tank range with these and I can still do 7-800km day-trips no problem.
There is no cable rerouting required on the clutch side and only the front brake line needs to be adjusted (it looks weird in the one pic, but it's not pinched and not really more constrained than stock). The final nice thing is that you can fit the stock Honda vibration dampers and bar ends in these bars. Just clone the holes into the new bars and they press right in and work excellent. As seen in the pic, I have stock bar ends machined to accept CRG mirrors and they are the best I've ever had -- zero vibration at any speed.
This setup could likely be made to work without hitting. Woodcraft makes a 10mm adapter you can buy that would move the handlebars forward from their clamps. This would allow them to clear the pinch bolt on top of the tripple tree and be clocked farther forward. If you combined this with a higher riser (these are a 2", they also come in 2.5" and 3"), I would give you very good odds of clearing the tank. I have good macro photos of what I mean if anyone is interested or wants to try this.
Just some more detail on the clipons:
They're just 41mm Woodcraft raised clip-ons.
Off the bat: These bars do hit the tank. I knew they would and don't really care -- I just put two small circles of 3M PPF where they hit, and I don't miss any of the steering I lost except for when literally walking the bike backwards out of my garage.
For me the ergonomics of adding these were awesome. I'm 6'4", and riding the CB with stock bars and no windscreen basically turned me into a sail. With these I end up semi tucked and perfectly streamlined behind the screen. In terms of weight on wrists and wind, it's basically like riding a very comfortable sportbike (think f4i or K5 GSXR 1k). You can still definitely out-ride the tank range with these and I can still do 7-800km day-trips no problem.
There is no cable rerouting required on the clutch side and only the front brake line needs to be adjusted (it looks weird in the one pic, but it's not pinched and not really more constrained than stock). The final nice thing is that you can fit the stock Honda vibration dampers and bar ends in these bars. Just clone the holes into the new bars and they press right in and work excellent. As seen in the pic, I have stock bar ends machined to accept CRG mirrors and they are the best I've ever had -- zero vibration at any speed.
This setup could likely be made to work without hitting. Woodcraft makes a 10mm adapter you can buy that would move the handlebars forward from their clamps. This would allow them to clear the pinch bolt on top of the tripple tree and be clocked farther forward. If you combined this with a higher riser (these are a 2", they also come in 2.5" and 3"), I would give you very good odds of clearing the tank. I have good macro photos of what I mean if anyone is interested or wants to try this.
