Fitting Streetfighter Handlebars to a VFR 800 | Bar Riser Conversion for 2003 Honda VFR800 VTEC | 08 скачать в хорошем качестве

Fitting Streetfighter Handlebars to a VFR 800 | Bar Riser Conversion for 2003 Honda VFR800 VTEC | 08

Fitting Streetfighter Handlebars to a VFR 800 | Bar Riser Conversion for 2003 Honda VFR800 VTEC | 08 In a previous video I actually criticised my Gen 6 Honda VFR800. It is a fantastic bike, but it isn't perfect. There is a problem with top heaviness, but being an older guy the forward leaning riding position isn't the most comfortable. I have removed the top box to address some of the top heaviness, and in this video I am fitting upright bars to see if it improves the riding position. #ad Here's what we used in this video (affiliate links). As an eBay Partner Network affiliate and Amazon Associate, we earn commissions from qualifying purchases: Streetfighter style bar risers: https://ebay.us/8N3uEA Allen Key Set: https://ebay.us/mOyQkE Thanks for supporting the channel! It must be remembered that I am a man of a certain age, and shape :) so if you are in your 30s and have the figure of Roger Bannister, my experience wont be like yours with a VFR800. I come from an age when sports bikes where the main thing that got motorcyclists passions flowing. Yes there were lots of sit up and beg style bikes, but that was a time when some people still had a bike as their main type of transport. When the VFR style of bike came out, the sports tourer, it tapped into the market of people who were realising the sports bikes had become so uncomfortable if you weren't always going 10 tenths. But they still had the look. In fact some sports bikes that hadn't yet become so "track" focussed where re-designated from sport to sport tourer. The Thunderace for example, even the later 919cc Fireblades started to be thought of like that when compared to the R1. But now a very big part of the bike market is adventure bikes. With a massively different take on what a motorcycle should look and feel like. Most owners of an adventure bike aren't going to take the long way home, just like most sport bike owners don't do track days. But they have realised that for day to day riding the adventure bike is more comfortable and convenient. With my paradigm I really like the look of sporty bikes, and the although much softened the VFR leans towards that look. But I have come to realise that the things the make it a sport tourer actually do work against it being the best bike that it can be! I removed the luggage bracketry and the top box in my last video, and this made a tremendous difference to the way the bike felt. Much less top heavy. But some of the things that made it less comfortable for me, riding position, numb hands etc still remained. So I decided to try higher bars, initially I had gone the route of simple risers, but they didn't make a massive difference, so now I was going to try street fighter styles bars. I found a set of bars and convertors online, second-hand. I wasn't sure how committed I was to the change, but as they were at a great price I decided to try them. The listing said that they worked with standard cables, but they did include two master cylinders, for brake and clutch, so I wasn't sure that was particularly truthful. They were really easy to fit. I removed the top yoke so that I could run the cables behind the stanchions. It worked out really well. I had two issues. One was that the brake line for the clutch hit the top of the stanchion, so the master cylinder couldn't be pushed on, quite, far enough. But the only real knock on from this was that the little knob on the switch gear didn't go into the hole in the bars which was there for it. it was about 5mm short! it actually didn't stop the clutch and switches working and feeling fine, but the switch housing couldn't be fully done up. And the throttle wouldn't snap back on full lock. With a little modification this would be easy to solve. There would be a couple of ways to do it. 1 leave it as it is and cut the locating knob off the switch housing. 2 adjust the clutch hose or master cylinder, maybe cutting one of the hose locating lugs off. As the clutch lever is in a good position and the switches work I decided to leave it alone for the moment. The throttle problem was the most worrying, as anything that stops the throttle closing is dangerous. However with a little re-routing and slackening off the adjusters the throttle would work just fine. I don't think I would need to do anything else with it. And as an added bonus the new bars don't fowl the screen or the tank at either end of the lock, which was a big concern. With the new bars on riding the bike is amazingly different! It feels like a much smaller, even peppier, bike. Obviously part of this is the more sat up position giving much better visibility. I would definitely recommend this change. For more helpful how-to guides and restoration project logs, visit our blog: https://www.spannerrash.com/