what was it that you found difficult? just running the wires thru the bars? anything else?
looks good btw

 

Bars look great, I like the look. I'm sure the difficulty level was up there, but the most important tools required are patience and confidence. Good job!

 

I couldn't agree more! They look great and the feeling of doing it yourself is gratifying! I too couldn't imagine paying the labor to have this done. I love mine, but no way I would pay anyone $500 to do it. TBW was hardest part for me

 

Well, the way the bars are made it each corner flows upward into a point, that if you pushed to much the wire can get caught in the corners. That is why I needed the more stronger hanger wires to push each set of hardness through and a small needle nose pliers to grab the wires. I did tape up the end of the wires with electrical tape making easier to grab with the needle nose. The great thing about these bars is that they have a hole on the bottom in each corner of the bars. That's the corner where you grab the wire and turn them towards the middle of the bars so that they come out in the center. So, there are two sets of control harness wires and throttle by wire cables. Which came apart about three times I tried to carefully push through inside the handle bars because TBW has a connection almost in the middle or so.... Which goes inside the bars very tight.

 

Knife are those Yaffe mirrors? Nice job by the way. Did 13" cyclesmiths on my old SG so I feel your pain.

 

Looks good knife. I just went thru it myself. I know how much those wires suck!

 

Hey did you need a longer clutch and brake cable?

 

I dont know if this would help in this situation, but a bud of mine works for a company that installs telecommunication equip. He sometimes has to feed small wires down some long, tight runs of conduit. Some how they use air pressure and vacuume to feed a strong line (similar to fishing line) down the conduit. He then uses the line to pull the wires in. He says its alot easier to pull wire than to push it.

 

That's going to be the method that I'm going to try. Blow the Fishing line up the bars using my air compressor and pull the wires down. At least that is the intention.

 

Another good method is to use a small chain, such as lamp chain. Feed the chain through first then tape the wires and feed while pulling the other end of the chain. Work very well for me