B.C. said:
OOHHHHHHH! Those KTM mirrors do look cool. I just ordered some Napoleon black or mirrors short stalk from hole shot. I suspect I will have a great view of my armpits and if thats true I will be getting those. Hey I also ordered a set of type one bars from SM today. How hard was the switch??? I have not done a bar switch before. Thanks for any tips .
Bar switch is a snap. I just switched to a flat drag bar this weekend. The only potential issue: I don't know if the SM bars have holes drilled for the switchpods. If so, you're golden. If not, just dremel or file them off like I had to. No sweat. Takes 15 minutes. The only potentially challenging part is getting your left handgrip off w/o destroying it, and then getting it on the new bars. To do that, pry it a little way up from the bar (just a bit) with a flathead screwdriver, and squirt some aerosol hairspray up between the bar and the grip. Then take the screwdriver out and just work the grip back and forth. It should slip right off in about 30 seconds. Put a little shot in the grip as you go to put it on the new bar, and it will slide right on, and then stick in place.
Many thanks to yellow650 for showing me this trick last weekend, BTW.
Oh, and as for mirrors, I would recommend against the EMGO bar-enders. Blech. Glass quality is terrible. I put on a pair of Third Eye bar end mirrors this weekend (made for bikes - I think they're the same ones Storz has), and they're great. Got 'em from Lickton bikes online, about $25 a pair shipped.