[Maven]

Seeing as how getting less forward lean was covered elsewhere, I thought I would ask about my goal of having MORE lean. This is my first 'sport bike', I'm about 5' 7", and the general feel of the bike to me seems very upright. In my eyes this gives the bike more of a beginner bike appearance ... I find this undesirable (yes, I understand to most it IS a beginner bike, but this really is all the bike I trust myself with!). I'm fairly used to a lot of forward lean as I'm into cycling (the pedal kind) quite a bit...

Thus far I've moved the handlebars from on top of the upper triple tree to below, using spacers and 6M x 40mm bolts to recreate the bar angle locator system they had going on there. I then encountered some rub from the throttle cables against the black plastic of the fairings. I remedied that I believe by rotating the throttle so that the cables exit above the brake lever (this required drilling a new indexing hole for the throttle/switch assembly)... as a side benefit this put the start switch in a fairly hidden spot. I still need to seal up the drain holes that are now facing upwards. And this brings me to my issues:
1. While my throttle fix is OK ... I've seen aftermarket throttles online that do a much better job at exiting on the top. What I can't seem to really locate, and I think it is just my naivety in regards to sport bike terminology when searching, is a replacement switch assembly without a throttle associated with it... thoughts?
2. Foot peg/shifter/rear brake location. Now that I'm leaning forward more, it almost feels like these are too far forward. Again, not knowing much about sport bikes maybe that is how they are supposed to feel on the big bikes (e.g. R6)... is moving these rearward a common thing? or am I off in dream land here?

Thanks.

 

[Eli_rx_oli]

I also relocated my bars. And I feel the same as you do about the pegs. You can get adjustable rear sets (pegs) so you can sit them further back and higher I'm considering getting these.just waiting for more available products

 

[FangShui]

I also relocated my bars. And I feel the same as you do about the pegs. You can get adjustable rear sets (pegs) so you can sit them further back and higher I'm considering getting these.just waiting for more available products

In case you missed these in my post elsewhere

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291415032488?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&var=590516724372&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

 

[Maven]

In case you missed these in my post elsewhere

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291415032488?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&var=590516724372&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

OOOhhh those look nice! Do you know how much adjustment they offer?

 

[FangShui]

OOOhhh those look nice! Do you know how much adjustment they offer?

Here's a photo of the back side of one (brake side, the attached metal clip holds the stock brake cylinder). There are 2 sets of four adjustment holes that form a square that's 1" x 1" (2.5cm x 2.5cm). Center to center on the holes is about 7/16" (11mm). This gives you 7/16" of forward/backward adjustment and the same for up and down.

I'm not sure what the difference the mounting position is from stock to start with, which would determine starting point before adjustment.

Hope this helps.... Also, see my post in Sato Rearsets Installed thread for more photos

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[EcoRider]

This is one of those cases where a bar-type handlebars come in handy, instead of the "triple yoke handles" if I can call them that way.
I remember some bikes ago, where I experimented with reversing the handlebars, giving them a downward instead of upward angle... lol