Sure, if someone already wants to change out the controls and switches, 7/8" bars make perfect sense. I'm just trying to help those who might not have considered the implications of going to 7/8" bars.

It is not hard to find 38mm clip ons and 1" bars - but you do have to buy quality stuff and won't find it in the cheap section in eBay.

You buy the clip ons in 38mm, and pay $ 20 extra to get them with 1" bars......easy-peasy.

https://www.woodcraft-cfm.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=12-01

(They don't hate you just because you have a bike that uses 1" handlebars).

It is a supply and demand thing.....most bikes that use clip-ons use 7/8" bars and have been for 50 years.  They make a lot of them in the 7/8" size and can spread the cost of setting up their tooling over a large quantity.

The 1" bars are Harley and Cruiser style....they really don't sell a bunch of them, and the folks that want 1" clip-ons is pretty limited.  The sellers have to spread their tooling costs over a low production run, and it adds cost of each piece.

I ran clubmans for about 3 weeks. Didn't like the hand placement and went ahead and got clip ons. For what you pay for clubman  ($20 off ebay) it's worth the purchase to see if you like the riding position which was what it did for me. You just get better adjustability with clip ons. I ended up about an inch lower with alot more pull back angle once I put the clip ons on the bike. Before I ordered the clip ons I was gonna fab up a drag bar style setup with the risers flipped under the triple tree and see if I liked that. Ended up getting a set of clip ons for a good price from Casey so I scrubbed that idea

You bring up a good point......you have very little adjustment with the Clubman bars.

Even with clip ons...sometimes they just aren't comfortable.  After having the clip-ons for 2 years, I just felt the angle wasn't right and I had too much pressure on my palm hand between my thumb and index finger...if I wanted that pressure to go away I had to lean way forward and shove my elbows out.

I got some 7/8" steel tubing and welded in a 4 degree angle...so I could lift the outside of the bars up a bit - it helped a bunch and the bike now fits me a lot better and my hands don't get as tired.

Not sure what the picture would show.....a 4 degree angle doesn't look like much.  It looked just like a clip-on handle with one end slightly bent.

Take an 18" long piece of 7/8" tubing, cut a 2 degree angle slice....then rotate one side 180 degrees and weld the tubing back together to make a 4 degree bend, and grind smooth.  The weld was just far enough from the end to allow the short end to fit in the clip-on bracket.

DesertRat wrote on 10/05/15 at 20:52:43:


Yes.  The 7/8" controls are much smaller and less "cruiser" looking, and look more proper on a Cafe' bike.