Who's gone with dirt bike-style bars on their road bike?

[haydes55]

What setup did you go with etc etc pics would be good....

Yea my bike came with dirt bike bars... motard haha

[hayd3n]

Fair call,problem i have is the colour of the bike,if i trim the fairing it has to be painted and having gone down the path of colour matching with a fairing after a small off years ago i am loathe to do it again.That aside still like to see pics of your setup.

find another top fairing set?? and fuck with that , then you can always go back

[AllanB]

Renthal Ultra lows on my Hornet 900 - no issue with tank clearance. You can also get drag bars that are flat so will give you some rise but may also give the fairing clearance you desire. LSL make a fatbar drag bar that would look the biz on your ride. Do you need to replace the top tree so you can bolt on some bar clamps or have you ordered a spunky billet one from offshore to replace the stocker?

Also consider adjustable or higher rise clipons for the TL. Plenty out there in different rise sets.

[paturoa]

Will have to work out how much of the plastics need to go....

There is a guy in the Tron that does replacement high rise clip on bars for SVs so that you don't have to cut the plastic, or drill the top tripple clamp. That might be an option but tweaked for TL. F1 Engineering was his name I think.

Edit: See this link there are pics on the front page. http://rapidartnz.com/

Edit 2: http://rapidartnz.com/oscommerce/ind...de1c85b870f005

[AllanB]

Considering the quality of your ride and the no expense approach to your mission of obtaining NZ's best TL, I have found you the Rolls Royce of adjustable clip-ons!

http://www.oppracing.com/product_dis...-variobar-kit/

You'll need GSXR ones as you've changed the forks (of course.....) but what a piece of art in metal.

There are considerably cheaper options out there.

[BMWST?]

If it ain't got clip-ons the first thing I do to a machine is get nicer (mx style) bars. I'll see if I can find a pic of the last bandit

Zeta's if I remember correctly. The Renthals are a lot to spring for.

hey bd you dropped yer glove!

[Motu]

Well not dirt bike bars, but dirt track bars. I wanted a dirt bike seating position, and the dirt bike bars I had on were too low and too far forward. The dirt track bars are higher and have more sweep back - height, reach and width are exactly the same as on my previous XT600. But you are probably not after wanting to play dirt bike with your street bike.

[bogan]

Dirt bike bars would be a huge change on the TL, even on my bros it was a pretty massive change.

Reckon you'd be better getting you hands on (geddit ) something a bit more in between, perhaps even adjustable. What is it you're aiming for? overall riding position change or just a little more wrist comfort?

[HenryDorsetCase]

What setup did you go with etc etc pics would be good....

Yeppers. I had Renthal Street Low on my Honda Hornet, and my Triumph Scrambler. I still have the stock bars on the Street Triple but they are very similar height and bend.

I don't drill them to locate the switches or throttle block, I file off the locating tangs and tighten them up. If they want to spin I use a little bicycle inner tube or duct tape (i turn) as a shim.

That Renthal bend really agrees with me for some reason.

http://www.renthal.com/File/apps1.as...d=0&appid=ROAD

[HenryDorsetCase]

Well not dirt bike bars, but dirt track bars. I wanted a dirt bike seating position, and the dirt bike bars I had on were too low and too far forward. The dirt track bars are higher and have more sweep back - height, reach and width are exactly the same as on my previous XT600. But you are probably not after wanting to play dirt bike with your street bike.

that bike is fucking cool.

[AllanB]

One advantage with the Renthal set of alloy street bike bars is that a dirt bike specific bike bar dos not need to take into account large switch blocks thus the 'straight' bit of bar on the end of a dirt specific bar is often not very long and if you desire to cut them down a bit so they are not as wide you run out of straight bar. The street bars avoid this.

LSL and Rizoma make nice 22mm alloy and fatbars for road bikes too.

I'm a driller for throttle tabs - the web debate carries on regarding this subject.

If you want to mock up a set of Renthal Ultra Lows I have a set that was on my Hornet when the MF-earthquake tipped her over. They do not appear to have suffered but I replaced them to play it safe. Happy to send them down to you if you want to tape them to your top triple, sit on the bike and make vroom vroom noises .........

I occurs to me that the TL may turn into a wheelie beast with upright bars!!!!!!

[wilber]

I went from stock to f1 engineering high rise clip ons they are up and back a bit felt great no mods required to cables,yes expensive but very well made .
Then after my off at the hillclimb I modded the stock triple with mx fat bars to raise even higher this is where things really start new brake lines and clutch cable and you have re route throttle and fast idle cables and cutting fairings and screen cannot remember how long I ran this setup then got a LSL top triple off Stu in Aussie ran this for a year or so but didn't like the feel position of bars and as I had one of van's top triple I worked a way out made plates and with big solid washers and mounted to vans top triple .
Lost a heap of old pic's when my pc died but will add a few I have of LSL thro not on bike and not so current setup as I have since added
hydro clutch and brembo masters

[blackdog]

hey bd you dropped yer glove!

Back in those heady days, time was of the essence!

[Latte]

After an off at the track I put MX bars on my RSV.

Used a billet top yoke from topyokes.co.uk - expensive at $500 (for a kit that included HEL braided brake and clutch lines, upgraded to anodized finish, and "fat bar" risers). Replaced the fairings with a Buell headlight/screen setup

Wheelies like my MX bike now Only thing I would do different is go with street specific bars (as allanb suggests, you cant narrow the MX bars much, esp with bar end mirrors on).

[VTR10001999]

I want to loose the clipons and change to this style of riding position on my VTR 1000.
My bike already has a single hole in either side of the top tripple tree (think thats what its called) does anyone know if this is original on VTRs or has someone drilled these two holes to fit clamps and mx style bars ?
Any ideas of what style bars and bar clamps would suit my bike ? and could i use the two holes already there and just fit new bars and clamp or will i need to also replace the whole top tripple tree as well ? Any help would be hugely appreciated - And sorry for taking over this thread but it seemed to be the appropriate place to ask.
Cneers everyone