Let's see GPz handle bar conversions.

Don't bend over more than you have to. No clubman style! Unless your on a road race course!
Don't like the old superbike style bars??
I came across these. Never thought I would like them. They just seem to fit this old project.
They were $31 bucks to my door. They are only 28" end to end 7/8" of course.

The drag bars look great, I hope the handlebar switches clear your tank at full lock. It sucks to dent the tank from having the switches hit them.

z1kzonly's bars look good. I also have a straight set of drag bars about 33 inches wide that I cut to size so that the switches are far enough out to clear the tank.

Here's that set of straight drag bars. I sold this particular bike.

Kapahulu wrote: The drag bars look great, I hope the handlebar switches clear your tank at full lock. It sucks to dent the tank from having the switches hit them.

z1kzonly's bars look good. I also have a straight set of drag bars about 33 inches wide that I cut to size so that the switches are far enough out to clear the tank.

The switch set in the right just slightly kisses but that is an alignment issue. I need to drill another hole just a little bit behind the first one I did and it should clear.

The left interferes just a little bit more because of the horn button and larger loom coming out but I think I can grind a slight relief and pull the wires tight to the bar and solve that. Otherwise, I will be looking for a lower (higher?) profile switch set for that side.

Kapahulu wrote: Here's that set of straight drag bars. I sold this particular bike.

Nice Seat! Looks like a Saddleman???
Hope you keep your plates on the Islands and don't transfer with vehicles?
Got any old, junk Hawaiian MC plates to sell?
I collect MC plates
Thanks

I have a UT if you want it.

The seat was modded by a guy nicknamed "Mr. Wog" somewhere in the U.S. mainland. He does a lot of ZRX seats. Cost with shipping was high, if I were to do it again I'd just buy a reproduction seat. License plates stayed on the bike. Now and then I sell a bike and usually regret it later. I have nine bikes at the moment, that's quite enough. Five of them are projects and it takes me about a year to get one on the road because of work and other non-motorcycle stuff.

GPzMOD750 wrote: I have a UT if you want it.

Hey GPZ! I sent you a PM about plate.
Thanks.

Hey Kap! That sucks to loose that "Mad Kaw" plate. That would have sold good on ebay!
Thanks for reply!

There are plenty of other possibilities. Just takes some imagination. Hawaii plates are limited to six characters. Another strange thing is they won't allow a plate that starts with letters then numbers, like KZ1000. I don't know why.

Of course plates like MAD MAX are already taken and it seems like once somebody has used it, they won't let the same plate be used again, even if the old plate is out of circulation. I special ordered a plate three years ago, finally got the bike together and went to pickup the plate. They had just sent it to oblivion and now I can't get it.

No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configuration

z1kzonly wrote:

GPzMOD750 wrote: I have a UT if you want it.

Hey GPZ! I sent you a PM about plate.
Thanks.

I have a TX plate if you want it? I collect them as well, mostly 70's plates from before they used the sticker on them.
A '69 Hawaii and a '72 Alaska are among my favs, I get most mine on ebay...

!Seymore wrote:

Irish-Kawi wrote: <<snip>>
... is that with the more aggressive riding position than the more upright bikes like SR650 etc, is that it does put significantly more pressure on my hands and wrists, so to combat this I got some really soft plush gel grips and when a bit more money comes in with be getting some heavier duty gloves with more palm padding too.

- Brett

Well, not all SR's are setup stock. I'm 6'2", long arms and can't stand to have my arms bent. My SR now has drag bars... as did my ST.

I built up my own throttle grip on the 650 and covered it with leather. It was rough on the wrists, till you find what works. I also use a Cramp Buster. Worth every dime...

To each their own...

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HAHAHA well 6'2" is a lot taller than my short 5'9" hahahaha. Thanks for sharing yours, love to see them and those SR's are just sweet machines :woohoo:

Brett