I spent my day attempting To mount me new needs on a 22 adventure sport DCT..couple comments…
1. On ThE right side, the bent bracket goes against the engIne, then he spacer. The instructions don’t say and by the time you realize you did it wrong it is brutal to redo it. In my case, I had finally gotten the lower front bolts on and there was no way I was taking them off again!!!!
2. Most bolts and nuts are a horrendous pain to do. I used every tool I had, my girlfriends very long fingers, and much swearing to get all the nuts, washers and spacers on.
3. The bars don’t fit well. I left loose what I could, but it was still very difficult to get the holes to line up. I still need to finish the upper one on the right side and the front bolt and spacer by the lights. It is very hard to push, pull and yank the bars To get the holes close enough to jam in the bolts…
4. I blame Honda a bit for designing an adventure bike without making reasonable points to connect crash bars. My vstrom was a breeze to do. The Honda seems to make it a nightmare for heed and other companies to attach the bars. Engine bolts, places where here is no way to get a wrench in, etc.
as for the bars themselves, they Look great, were relatively cheap, and arrived from Poland in three weeks with no additional duty..
the thought of taking these off to fix something else is giving me PTSD… and I am an engineer who does all my own work on my cars and bikes. This made replacing my Mazda cx-5 belt tensioner seem like doing an oil change in comparison.
1. On ThE right side, the bent bracket goes against the engIne, then he spacer. The instructions don’t say and by the time you realize you did it wrong it is brutal to redo it. In my case, I had finally gotten the lower front bolts on and there was no way I was taking them off again!!!!
2. Most bolts and nuts are a horrendous pain to do. I used every tool I had, my girlfriends very long fingers, and much swearing to get all the nuts, washers and spacers on.
3. The bars don’t fit well. I left loose what I could, but it was still very difficult to get the holes to line up. I still need to finish the upper one on the right side and the front bolt and spacer by the lights. It is very hard to push, pull and yank the bars To get the holes close enough to jam in the bolts…
4. I blame Honda a bit for designing an adventure bike without making reasonable points to connect crash bars. My vstrom was a breeze to do. The Honda seems to make it a nightmare for heed and other companies to attach the bars. Engine bolts, places where here is no way to get a wrench in, etc.
as for the bars themselves, they Look great, were relatively cheap, and arrived from Poland in three weeks with no additional duty..
the thought of taking these off to fix something else is giving me PTSD… and I am an engineer who does all my own work on my cars and bikes. This made replacing my Mazda cx-5 belt tensioner seem like doing an oil change in comparison.
