MotoBuddha, curious about your bar setup. I notice you have them reversed from the normal RYCA setup. Bars point up vs down. Is that the way your are going to keep it for final build?

I've been going back and forth on this. I have to account for the slant of the forks. I was looking at various Ryca photos, but it looks like there have been at least two versions of the clamps. In a video it shows the bolts for the part that clamps around the fork turned to face inside the triple trees instead of outside, with the bar bolts at the bottom.

In the photos of the first bike, the bars are nearly flat with almost no pullback.

Like I said, I'll have to see how things fit once the forks are on the bike.

On other bikes with different handlebars, I've found a small wrap of duct tape (solves 90% of problems) has done really well holding the clamp to new bars.  Or mark where the dimple will contact the bars and drill a hole to match.

I like the gaiters...nice touch.
I'm curious to know when you got on the Ryca list.  I got on in early December and am just trying to get an idea of when Santa Clause might be visiting with a sack of Ryca goodies...


MotoBuddha wrote on 03/06/11 at 11:36:42:

Abbey Normal wrote on 03/06/11 at 15:36:49:


In November, I think.

It's easy to drill the clip-ons because the bars can be rotated into whatever orientation you need after you drill the holes.

For example, take one of the bars, slide the throttle sleeve on,  then put the pod around it and the tab is right there where you can mark the distance from the end of the bar. Take everything off, drill the hole, slide the sleeve back on, slip the throttle cable in place, bolt the halves of the pod together, slide the master cylinder on from the other end, tighten the bolts, then slide the bar into the mount, twist it around to where you like it and tighten the bolts.

Here's the shot from the spring installation video that had me second guessing. Notice the location of the pinch bolts. I used them to orient the clamps -- left, right, which way up.



With the bar pinch bolts at the bottom and the fork pinch bolts facing inward, the bars tilt upward. But now I realize the clamps in the photo are not the same as the ones done in the production run. On the current ones, the two sets of pinch bolts are 90º to each other, not more or less opposite.