Changing clip on's to bar

fouramdesigns · April 10, 2009, 01:29:19 PM

What all is involved? New clamp, risers bar etc? What would you recommend for my S4? I like the Rizoma line.

DarkStaR · April 12, 2009, 10:21:50 PM

Quote from: fouramdesigns on April 10, 2009, 01:29:19 PM
What all is involved? New clamp, risers bar etc? What would you recommend for my S4? I like the Rizoma line.

I may have some stock s4 (st style) triples and bars available very soon.

What do you currently have on the bike?

n/m, mine are the same as yours.

fouramdesigns · April 21, 2009, 12:37:07 PM

All stock clip on's, the thick bars.

Duc Fever · April 22, 2009, 11:30:28 AM

So do you have the stock bar or aftermarket clip-on's ( there are no "stock" clip-ons) If you arre looking into new handlebars check out the ProTaper line lots of choices and great pricing.

fouramdesigns · April 22, 2009, 12:02:59 PM

Stock bar. Someone on the old board told me I had clip ons, hence me calling them by that. This is what I have.

Slide Panda · April 22, 2009, 12:26:59 PM

Those are the weird pseudo clip-ons that that they cooked up for the S4.

To go to bars, you've got some hurdles to over come. As it stands now, you've no way to attach a bar clamp, and the top of that triple in inconveniently not flat. So it wouldn't be easy to just drill to attach a clamp set. Then you'd still be left with some odd looking empty holes where the current bars bolt.

If you're feeling it in the budget, you would replace the triple with a flash one from speedy moto, designed for use with a standard bar
http://www.speedymoto.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=MTC

DarkStaR · April 22, 2009, 06:48:29 PM

Why do you want to switch to a bar?

corndog67 · April 22, 2009, 09:12:12 PM

My S4 has some adapters that hold 1 1/8 bars that kind of sit on the upper triple clamp. I'm not sure of the brand, not marked, but there are access holes to get to the adjusters on top of forks. It's a pretty comfortable set up.

fouramdesigns · April 23, 2009, 06:18:12 AM

Quote from: DarkStaR on April 22, 2009, 06:48:29 PM
Why do you want to switch to a bar?

To customize of course! I'm going for a retro cafe/ SBK look when I'm completely done with the bike. Kinda like me, I'ma recording engineer, I love some classic genre's, but I'm also knee deep in electronic, make sense?

Quote from: DarkStaR on April 22, 2009, 06:48:29 PM
My S4 has some adapters that hold 1 1/8 bars that kind of sit on the upper triple clamp. I'm not sure of the brand, not marked, but there are access holes to get to the adjusters on top of forks. It's a pretty comfortable set up.

Take some pics if you don't mind.

supertjeduc · April 23, 2009, 10:26:18 AM

You could buy this one ,i think it's a steal

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DUCATI-MONSTER-S4-SUPERBIKE-HANDLEBAR-KIT_W0QQitemZ330324156413QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Motorcycle_Parts?hash=item330324156413&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A10%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

LSL is a good german brand

Slide Panda · April 23, 2009, 10:42:40 AM

^YES^ snag that - that is a steal. The speedy moto stuff I mentioned before is about 3x that cost

fouramdesigns · April 23, 2009, 02:27:23 PM

There's only one riser in the pic. Wonder if that means the other is missing? I'll email the seller.

corndog67 · April 23, 2009, 08:57:49 PM

Quote from: fouramdesigns on April 23, 2009, 06:18:12 AM
To customize of course! I'm going for a retro cafe/ SBK look when I'm completely done with the bike. Kinda like me, I'ma recording engineer, I love some classic genre's, but I'm also knee deep in electronic, make sense?

Take some pics if you don't mind.

I'll do that tomorrow. I'll see if I can figure out how to post them...we need an attachment option so us noncomputer types can deal with it.

corndog67 · April 24, 2009, 03:14:05 PM

Well, I read the directions. Duh.

corndog67 · April 24, 2009, 03:15:06 PM

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