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| | | redhouse64 | | Set |  |  | | Reg. Date | : | 14/03/2011 | | Posts | : | 56 | | Location | : | Wilen, SZ, Switzerland |
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| | Posted : 05 May 2011 - 17:08 Post title : For the vertically challenged | | | To all of you who's coffin's bill will not drive your families even deeper in dispair, I can heartily recommend the Raiser-Spacers bought at Eddie's!
I'm 175.5, i.e. 5' 10'', and always felt as if my arms were just an inch too short when grabbing the handlebars. So the choice was either to spend a ridicilous amount of money on high raisers, I will do that for Wlbers shocks anyway, to install the T-Bars or to give the spacers a try. For less then 60 US$, they are really hard to beat and are just doing the trick for me.
For the aesthetes amongst us, it repeats the pattern of the brushed fork legs and the chromed fork tubes ...
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| | Post edited by redhouse64 on 05 May 2011 - 17:11 |
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| | | Thatch | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 24/06/2009 | | Posts | : | 3,655 | | Location | : | Savannah, GA, United States |
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| | Posted : 05 May 2011 - 21:02 Post title : Re: For the vertically challenged (Re: redhouse64) | | | I use the same things (albeit in a custom length) to get the controls lifted off the tank enough so I can run my drag bars. They work great and really disappear on the bike..... and I'm far from vertically challenged.
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| | | narsisco_lopez | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 09/09/2010 | | Posts | : | 2,765 | | Location | : | Golden (Showers!), Colorado, United States |
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| | Posted : 05 May 2011 - 21:17 Post title : Re: For the vertically challenged (Re: Thatch) | | | I'm 5'7" and have a 30" inseam, but the stock bars/risers feel just about perfect to me. Amazing that someone's slightly different-shaped/sized torso, inseam, and arm length can make such drastic difference in rider position. Well, not that amazing when you think about it 
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| | | coneye | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 29/07/2010 | | Posts | : | 420 | | Location | : | adelaide, Australia |
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| | Posted : 06 May 2011 - 00:21 Post title : Re: For the vertically challenged (Re: narsisco_lopez) | | | Would they work with the T bars also did you need longer cables.
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| | | redhouse64 | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 14/03/2011 | | Posts | : | 56 | | Location | : | Wilen, SZ, Switzerland |
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| | Posted : 06 May 2011 - 06:34 Post title : Re: For the vertically challenged (Re: coneye) | | | @coneye
I can't answer the T bars question 100 % but IMHO there is no reason why they shouldn't work, just remember to order the long bolts from Eddie's as well, on the cable side I did not need longer cables then standard, just had to move the throttle lines to back of the handlebar.
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| | | Linkdog | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 10/02/2011 | | Posts | : | 2,943 | | Location | : | Groveland, FL., United States |
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| | Posted : 07 May 2011 - 16:45 Post title : Re: For the vertically challenged (Re: redhouse64) | | | Redhouse we are the same size and I thought the same thing, Although I just got used to it but i'ts nice to know there's something out there just in case.
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| | | Leethal | | Zeus | | | | Reg. Date | : | 24/01/2011 | | Posts | : | 6,478 | | Location | : | Australia |
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| | Posted : 09 May 2011 - 07:03 Post title : Re: For the vertically challenged (Re: coneye) | | |
coneye wrote:
Would they work with the T bars also did you need longer cables. |
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Funny thing, I put my standard bars on a few weeks ago for the first time and find them more comfy that the Tbars. Did a leisurely 600k two day ride over the weekend and quite liked them.
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