Members Birthdays
|
|
Main Menu
|
|
19th November 2011
|
 |
XLF Enforcer.
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The Electric City, NY
Posts: 1,050 Sportster/Buell Model: XL 883N Sportster/Buell Year: 2010 Other Motorcycle Model: Kawasaki Other Motorcycle Year: 2001
|
|
No biggie just new grips
Just a lil update. I couldn't keep my billet aluminum grips any more. Though they looked awesome and had the bullets on the end I just couldn't deal with the vibes. Don't get me wrong it wasn't terrible but I think I'm beginning to get a case of carple tunnel. Being an auto tech is tough on the body. So I picked up some Biltwell kungfu grips. A) they where cheap. B) they said they where super comfy. No ride report yet but I can tell you they def. feel awesome.
__________________
F.T.W Molon Labe
|
19th November 2011
|
 |
Master Custom Bike Builder
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 3,331 Sportster/Buell Model: XL1250 Sportster/Buell Year: '02
|
|
Hope they work out better for you, they look a lot more comfy
__________________
Well of course, everything looks bad if you remember it.
|
19th November 2011
|
 |
Assistant Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: South Shore, Massachusetts
Posts: 9,981 Sportster/Buell Model: 1212 conversion/497 cams Sportster/Buell Year: 2004
|
|
Comfy grips make a world off difference - for me anyway.
Enjoy them if you get to ride. It's too cold here.
Probably the same in your neck o da woods.
|
19th November 2011
|
 |
XL FORUM LIFE MEMBER
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 13,143 Sportster/Buell Model: XL50 0596 Black Sportster/Buell Year: 2007 Other Motorcycle Model: E-Glide Other Motorcycle Year: 2003
|
|
Quote:
|
I just couldn't deal with the vibes.
|
Me either. Put pre-2004 top tree on with a washer to make up the height. This let me use rubber riser bushings.
Added Vibranators and Avon grips. Still not as smooth as my E-glide but way better than it was.
__________________
Bob, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of bartenders and sinners!
Sportys tend to keep getting faster the longer you own them.
|
19th November 2011
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: a liddo northwest of you
Posts: 6,363 Sportster/Buell Model: Sportster Sportster/Buell Year: 2008
|
|
Do you remember the difference between these and the stock ones waaay back when?
And how was the installation on them?
|
20th November 2011
|
|
XLF Enforcer.
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The Electric City, NY
Posts: 1,050 Sportster/Buell Model: XL 883N Sportster/Buell Year: 2010 Other Motorcycle Model: Kawasaki Other Motorcycle Year: 2001
|
|
These are much more comfy then my stockers. They have alot of tiny ribs where my stockers where smooth. I don't recall the earlier models I'll have to look into it. Install took all of a couple mins. I didn't take my right hand side controls completely apart just the two torx that hold the switches in. I reused my stock throttle tube being these didn't come with one.
|
20th November 2011
|
|
XLF Enforcer.
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The Electric City, NY
Posts: 1,050 Sportster/Buell Model: XL 883N Sportster/Buell Year: 2010 Other Motorcycle Model: Kawasaki Other Motorcycle Year: 2001
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by xena
Comfy grips make a world off difference - for me anyway.
Enjoy them if you get to ride. It's too cold here.
Probably the same in your neck o da woods.
|
Ya it's friiggginnnn cold out right now. I'm waiting on a fluke day where the temp jumps up for no reason lol. |
20th November 2011
|
 |
Senior Chief Know It All
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 821 Sportster/Buell Model: XL883N Sportster/Buell Year: 2010
|
|
Yeah, the wrong (including stock!) grips can make the bike all but unridable. It didn't take me long to put grips on my shopping list!
-m
|
3rd December 2011
|
|
XLF Enforcer.
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The Electric City, NY
Posts: 1,050 Sportster/Buell Model: XL 883N Sportster/Buell Year: 2010 Other Motorcycle Model: Kawasaki Other Motorcycle Year: 2001
|
|
Ive been all screwed up. The weekend my boy was born I got to ride the bike the next day to the hospital, cause it was like mid 60s or something rediculus.The grips where more then comfy. The only thing that took some getting used too was theyre thicker in yer hand....as far as circumference theyre larger...but I like them and for the money Id recomend them to any one.
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 10:36.
|
