« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2025, 08:05:25 AM »
You didn't say what bike you were putting the bars on. That is always helpful for finding what you want and is helpful for others later on that find your thread doing a web search or forum search.
As to wires inside the bars, yes you will need to verify the edges inside especially have been smoothed off, no sharp edges to cut the sheath or wires.
A heat gun is your friend on getting the wire loom out of the bars and back in another set. Heat the bars up to soften the sheath(it's hard and brittle holding folds and bends after all this time. The when putting it back in, I take a piece of new wire with a hook bent in and carefully tape it to the end of the loom to add a little pull power to get it in as you carefully guide the other end in the hole
heat the sheath so it is soft again. Yes a little dialectic grease helps too.
I have the euro bars on my K5 750 and like the stance for my back and the look. You will need to get shorter cables and brake hose too.
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Honda Parts manager in the mid 1970s Nashua Honda
My current rides
1975 K5 Planet Blue my summer ride, it was a friend's bike I worked with at the Honda shop in 76, lots of fun to be on it again
1976 K6 Anteres Red rebuilding project, was originally my brother's that I set up from the crate, it'll breath again soon!
Project 750s, 2 K4, 2 K6, 1 K8
2008 GL1800 my daily ride and cross country runner
Prior bikes....
1972 Suzuki GT380 I had charge of it for a year in 1973 while my friend was deployed and learned to love street riding....
New CB450 K7 after my friend returned...
New CB750 K5 Planet Blue, demise by ex cousin in law at 9,000 miles...
New CB750 K6 Anteres Red, to replace the totaled K5, I sold this K6 at 45k in 1983, I had heavily modified it, many great memories on it and have missed it greatly.....
1983 GL1100A, 1999 GL1500 SE, 1999 GL1500A
