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nwcafe:
I put some clubman bars on my KO this winter, running the wires inside as well. To make pulling the wires through a little easier i snipped off some of the larger female bullet connectors, afterwords soldering on new connectors I ordered from Cycle Re-Cycle. Not having that stuff on made the over-90? turn in the bars easier to deal with, shortening the job to an hour rather than four hours... To keep the bars from denting the newly painted tank I pulled the steering colum and brought it in to work and drilled out the steering stops on a drill press. I then mounted stainless steel nuts and bolts through the new holes, with a nut on either side of the drilled out stop... this allowed me to adjust where the bars stop, and lock the hardware into place. So far it is working great. For a while last year I was running low rise sport bars upside down, sort of a half-assed clubman set up. The smooth curves allowed the wires to pull through like butter... It worked ok... they looked pretty good. They just didnt say Cafe the way I wanted them to. G
kmenzel:
I do like those clubman bars alot. The exact look i want. Does drilling holes in the bars create any sort of an issue with regards to the integrety/rigidity of the bars. (read: make them weaker). When you threaded the wires through did you use the original horn/blinker switches. The wires to my current switch were cut when i twisted the switch further onto the bars (they are not stock, didnt seem like it was on far enough). Anyway, learned a lesson there and decided to do a bunch of work on the electrical. Did you put in new wires at all when swapped in the new bars? Where can a guy order new wiring from.
nwcafe:
I had read about holes weakening the bars as well, but i ran with those upside down sport bars for a while with no problem.... still alive. And I figured that the weakening problem would only be a problem if I ran head on into something solid like a car or tree, which I hope to avoid. The switches and wiring are brand new from service honda, from a lot newer model of honda... i don't remember the details... maybe late 70's that are still available..I copied the honda part number from a couple of ebay auctions for right and left assemblies then ordered the parts. The wire colors didnt match up of course. I just took my time and mapped out the new wires and what they were for with a continuity tester and a pen and paper. I ended up with some wires to nowhere that i just taped off and left in the headlight space... ( I'm not sure if that tool is actually called a 'continuity tester'... its a cheap little tool from the autoparts store with a AA battery inside, a small lightbulb, an alligator clip and metal pointer...) There was only one switch assembly on the bike when i got it, with a big hole chopped out of the housing so the wires could be zip tied to the bars...ugly....... so that's why I went for the new stuff... Good luck
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