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matt Full Member Offline da na na na na mattman Posts: 228 Winter Springs, FL Gender:	Handlebar position 06/15/09 at 10:32:54 Anyone with stock buckhorns ever rotated them up a little higher? Im thinking it may be a little more comfortable, any reason Not to try that besides the alignment marks not aligning?
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Yonuh Adisi FSO Serious Thumper Offline Savage Jedi (Knight) Posts: 3622 Pilot Valley NV, aka Tatooine Gender:	Re: Handlebar position Reply #1 - 06/15/09 at 12:32:15 That's what I did until I got my 10 inch miniapes. But it wasn't very comfortable, as you raise the angle of the bars, the angle of your wrists change as well.
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Re: Handlebar position
Reply #2 - 06/15/09 at 13:13:06

Did exactly that (rotated buckhorns forward, raising the grips about an inch or so) on my original '03 Savage ... made a WORLD of difference for both comfort and handling (for me anyways; found the stock position tended to tuck my elbows in too much) ... had to loosen & rotate the mirror mounts a bit to re-align 'em, but that was no biggie.
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Savage_Amusement Serious Thumper Offline On this steel horse I ride. Posts: 1004 Omaha, NE Gender:	Re: Handlebar position Reply #3 - 06/15/09 at 13:47:50 Heck I've done that even with the stock drag bars. Making a bike fit you makes way more sense than you fitting the bike.
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Staplebox Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 70 CT Gender:	Re: Handlebar position Reply #4 - 06/15/09 at 14:49:44 Thanks for the head-up on the alignment marks. I've been wondering if mine were right after a little incident. They were low. I put them back plus a little higher.
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Bobbert Serious Thumper Offline CHOP IT Posts: 836 Los Angeles, CA Gender:	Re: Handlebar position Reply #5 - 06/15/09 at 17:36:33 do yourself a favor... get new bars
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matt Full Member Offline da na na na na mattman Posts: 228 Winter Springs, FL Gender:	Re: Handlebar position Reply #6 - 06/16/09 at 10:02:01 Thanks for the info! I Would love a new set of handle bars, just have to wait for that.. I took a HARD lesson in the value of torque wrench.. I snapped a bolt. $2.70 a peice at ace... Now i just gotta go back and get the right length.. errr.
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