Engineering/Mechanical Smarty Pants People : Need Your Help

[mostro900]

and if these pics don't show up, might need geek help too..

OK, so got new Magura bars and picked up some purdie Rizoma grips from Matty(I used to have these on my first Monster, but that's a few years ago now). Anyway, when I put the grips on, there are some gaps and I need advice on how to best resolve the gap issue.
See pics for left and right side. On the right, due to the fact that the throttle body sits in a little hole to stop is rotating, I end up with about 1 cm of handle bar sticking out. Put on the bar-end and I have that annoying gap. 

Do I :
a) cut the bars or
b) make a new hole or
c) someone comes up with another idea ?

Suggest away....

left....


right...

[Spider]

I thought the answer was:

 d) all of the above.

don't you trim the bars by 10mm and drill new guide holes further along?

measure twice, cut once.

I didn't know you had yellow accents on the black bike!!!!

RJ

[mostro900]

I thought the answer was:

 d) all of the above.

don't you trim the bars by 10mm and drill new guide holes further along?

measure twice, cut once.

I didn't know you had yellow accents on the black bike!!!!

RJ

yeah, might do that! In my case, measure 3 times.

yellow stripes are new... homage to my first monster that was put down.

[mattyvas]

The engineer bloke I know helped me chop the spare space off the ends of the bars.
Seems the simplest way to solve the problem.
Easy measuring and easy cutting. 

[FIFO]

 As Spider said all of the above

I would go with new locating holes first,  easy done
mark your center line accurate and centre punch the bar to start of the drill.

[Dannog]

I drilled a new hole for the throttle mount.

Another option is to grind off the pin on the throttle which I thought was too extreme.

I moved the LHS grip out to the bar end (as yours is) and the gaps match between the switch blocks and the grips.

I figured this was the most conservative option. When I installed the grips I didn't have time to measure up and cut down the bars...... and I couldn't decide if I'd notice the loss in bar width.

[mostro900]

cool, thanks Rob, Dannog. I'll go the hole relocate first. Easy to do too.

Thanks for the pic as well - looks good. Yeah, I didn't think the missing bits of bar would make any difference if I was to chop them - cause the grips would have remained in the same place anyway. This way they'll move out 10mm(well 20mm combined, but no big deal I don't think).

[dragonworld.]

As far as the locating holes go, I'd remove the pins, all the bikes I've had that have had locating pins for switch clusters etc. I've removed them so I could have them in the optimum place for my pinkies to operate said controls!  

Aaaand never had a problem with things rotating on the bars either. Not having those locating pins just makes setting things up soooo much easier.  

As for the bars?? Removing bits off the end is the way to go. Most bars are a "general" size and need adapting to suit individual applications.

[mostro900]

As far as the locating holes go, I'd remove the pins, all the bikes I've had that have had locating pins for switch clusters etc. I've removed them so I could have them in the optimum place for my pinkies to operate said controls!  

Aaaand never had a problem with things rotating on the bars either. Not having those locating pins just makes setting things up soooo much easier.  

As for the bars?? Removing bits off the end is the way to go. Most bars are a "general" size and need adapting to suit individual applications.

Thanks Dragon...that's good to know.  didn't want to chop, grind and drill and then find out I'd make the beast with two backsed it good n' proper 

[mattyvas]

Before you cut chop or relocate I have a set of fat bars out back you can use to measure up.
But really when I chopped mine I noticed 0 difference, it was far easier than relocating the other items.

[mostro900]

Before you cut chop or relocate I have a set of fat bars out back you can use to measure up.
But really when I chopped mine I noticed 0 difference, it was far easier than relocating the other items.

Thanks Matty! I'll give the drill a workout tomorrow and if that doesn't work for me, then I'll try the chop. Only need to drill 1 hole on 1 side, so should be pretty straightforward, though I must remember not to have that beer at the same time.

[mattyvas]

Well don't hold the beer at the same time, you can have one close by.