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It seems in all the pics of these bars people have switched to bar-mounted mirrors. Are the fairing-mounted mirrors rendered useless by your new hand location?
It seems in all the pics of these bars people have switched to bar-mounted mirrors. Are the fairing-mounted mirrors rendered useless by your new hand location?
For me they were. If they were a little taller, you could probably see the fairing mounted mirrors with ease, but I couldn't. I also could not get adjusted to looking under my hands for mirrors instead of over the top of them.
Originally Posted by ch54
Did you need to change cables and brake lines with those 12" bars? Looks like about what I'm interested in.
Yeah, I had too. I wanna say you need something like +4" on both. But now, I have seen someone stretch their clutch line out and put it between the bars and fairing and that worked, but just barely.
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