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Sat Oct 17, 2020 6:15 am
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Grab On suggests hair spray to ease installation. Since I have about 3 hairs left on my head, I borrowed the wife's Aquanet |
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Zitat von duccrazydave im Beitrag #46 I went to Dollar General to get my can of Aquanet-substitute. Coming from Dollar General, I knew this stuff had the best industrial solvents from unknown third-world sources to lube and glue the neoprene-hand grip interface. Grip Glue.jpg - Bild entfernt (keine Rechte) Back in the day, mid 60's, I can remember my oldest sister generating a sticky, toxic waste site in our single bathroom with Aquanet. I'm pretty sure her bouffant helmet-hair would have qualified for a Snell rating...... Old Forum Orphan |
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Following wessie's reply to my post on handlebar vibration I fitted grip puppies, which wis very easy to do and they eased the vibration. Whether it is they are becoming compressed or the change to summer gloves, the vibration is more noticeable. The GP's are cheap to buy so one solution would be to replace them but I would like to investigate heavier bar end weights. Has any one tried this solution and if so what was the weight of them? One other reason to not replace the GP is they are larger in diameter and with small hands it means I cannot use my warmest winter gloves as I cannot safely apply the brake as they increase the reach. On my FJ1200 I had made larger weights and they killed the vibration. |
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Zitat von JAG im Beitrag #49 Here's a review. https://youtu.be/TXtNivDKQy8 Lee |
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Zitat von JAG im Beitrag #49 I have a set of these - not used any more as I have fitted Barkbuster Storm hand guards and have different bar ends. https://www.rg-racing.com/browsetype/Bar...1200S/BE0033BK/ They are 89g heavier than the OE item - with bolts, OE is 255g and R&G is 344g I can't remember if they were any better than the OE. They were bought for aesthetic reasons as some idiot didn't use blue Loctite when refitting the OE ones, after dicking about with some neoprene bar muffs. As for your glove "problem". Bar muffs mean you can use summer gloves in winter. They do work better with the hand guards though, especially the Tucano Urbano R319 jobbies.
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Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #50Zitat von JAG im Beitrag #49 Just ordered a pair based on Levy's review. s/s 17.2 ounces and about 3" long [ which is about 1" more on each bar over the ones I'm using now. We shall see if they take that buzzing out of the bars for me. I added the O ring grip enlargers instead of the grip puppies like I had on the GS. I may still swap those out as well if I still have some residual buzzing at certain rpm's. Thanks for the link Lee |
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Fit the HVMP bar ends to the motor this morning. Hell of a time getting the old ones off, and had to buy a T45 as the largest I had in my tools was a T40. The mind is the limiting factor |
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Zitat von azqkr im Beitrag #53 I've been experimenting with the ventilation leather work gloves. Galeton offers an all leather glove with a velcro cinch strap for ~$15.00. Being work gloves, an XL actually fits my apparently monster-sized (3~4XL) hand in the MC world. So far, 1 and 3-mm diameter holes between the fingers and line of holes across the back, near the cinch strap. Just the added room in the gloves makes them feel cooler. If they offered a model with a double layer palm, that would be fantastic.
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Zitat von azqkr im Beitrag #53 If your road test is favourable azqkr will fit the same. Out of interest I measured the following to compare with increased handle bar width on my R1250RS:- Overal BMW panniers 995mm (39.2" Overall engine covers 783mm (30.8") Overall standard bar ends 798mm (31.4') Overall mirrors 895mm (35.2') Depending how you set them you may get a slightly different answer. Predicted overall HMVP 849mm (33.4') So in order of reducing width it is Panniers; mirrors; larger bar ends: standard bar ends: engine covers John PS Thanks for the replies |
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My shad 36L's measure 42 [ as close as I can tell using the measure myself ]. |
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Zitat von azqkr im Beitrag #57 Remeasured overall standard bar ends to be 798mm (31.4') as before. Surprised yours are 36" are they standard? John |
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Zitat von JAG im Beitrag #58Zitat von azqkr im Beitrag #57 You are correct sir, they are 31 and change, I stated the width of the mirrors as set on mine. Bar end to bar end measures just at 33" as close as I can tell now. Remeasured mirrors, they are 36" across. The mind is the limiting factor |
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Zitat von JAG im Beitrag #49 Rather stupidly in my note above I had ignored the fact I had removed the bark buster hand guards as well as changing to summer gloves. Just refitted them for Autumn/winter riding, Rode up to Betws-y-Coed Sunday and back Monday-12 hours riding 530miles and very little vibration noticed. These weigh 13.2oz each and the large bar end weights by Hudson Valley add 8.1oz each side. Needless to say the bark busters will stay on next summer. John PS:The Minor road going South East from Machynlleth to the B4518 and going through Dylife is always a pleasure, but that is true of many of the welsh roads. |
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