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bar risers! NON GENMAR cable/ hoses?
Written by mikeyb_houtex on 3/15/2012 at 05:44 am

My opinion is pretty straight forward: Ditch the covers past the grip/reservoir
area, i.e., cut 'em off to the inside. That tall/back, they'll not be very
useful anyway, especially regards the key.

Then, just ensure the cables and hoses will work, as there won't be any covers
to worry about, so they can just dangle wherever makes sense. Fashion up some
sprung/bungy retainers or such to let them 'shift' a little if needed, but stay
'not caught' on any thing.

You may also wanna ditch the triple tree covers (little triangle panels) to help
this project along too.

This may be the easiest to do. You might get a secondary set of handlebar
covers to use, and keep the originals for if you decide to go back stock.

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HOWEVER, if you are going to keep all those covers, then you'll likely need to
make your own cables. I doubt there's anything available for this kind of
modification that you can just buy. You might can extend the cables/hoses
somehow, but I wouldn't be the one knowin' how to do it :)

I'll be interested to see if anyone else has good information for you, but...
this is highly different, yeah? :)

Mike
'95 PC800, "Ride"

--- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "Slash S" <rocker8585@...> wrote:
>
> Ok i am looking to have a serious set of bar riser's / pull backs.
>
> I fabricated my own genmar like set up they were 1.5" and they aren't enough i
want more. I had a 650 vstar before and i got the scoot works risers they had
and it was a 3" pull back and i really liked them. But i think what i am trying
to accomplish is getting the sport touring bike to feel like a cruiser. so i am
thinking of fabbing up a mounting plate so i can take a standard set of risers
that have the single mounting stud and use them for the pc.
>
> any way my big question is how to determine what size over length hoses and
cables i will need.
>
> I have the brake and clutch hoses
>
> throttle cable and choke cable to think about. any help would be really
appreciated or even a website that sells them/ a member that does this kind of
work would be appreciated :) and or can i make my own hoses?
>
> Jeremy21@...
>

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