Anyone tried fitting them to a R-R or Rockster??
Just pondering the idea really....
R1150GS Handlebars
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Re: R1150GS Handlebars
mornin rice burner,
just found this post , i am thinking of fitting gs handlebars to mine. My friend who is just back from a european tour met someone with a rockster with gs bars fitted. Luckily he took a photo of it so will post on here this week for us to all have a look at.
just found this post , i am thinking of fitting gs handlebars to mine. My friend who is just back from a european tour met someone with a rockster with gs bars fitted. Luckily he took a photo of it so will post on here this week for us to all have a look at.
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Interested in seeing them,...what would be the advantage?
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Re: R1150GS Handlebars
RB,
You've already seen a Rockster with GS 'bars. Mine has them and you even sat on the thing at the Mem Meet!
Hmmm.... must've been the beer
I don't live that far away from you (I like riding the thing anyway) and you're more than welcome to ride the thing or just clamber about and see what you think (or I'll send pics or whatever - no problem).
As an experiment, my bike is also currently running an OE Yammie FJR1300 screen, mounted on my old Vario Screen mounts (as the GS bars are higher, then you're stuck up in the breeze a bit more. This was a £15 experiment in the search for as close as I can get to RT levels of 90mph cross-continental blasting without fitting a barn door or spending a fortune! Not fully tested or messed with yet though - so jury still out.
GS bars though are great (IMHO).
You've already seen a Rockster with GS 'bars. Mine has them and you even sat on the thing at the Mem Meet!
Hmmm.... must've been the beer
I don't live that far away from you (I like riding the thing anyway) and you're more than welcome to ride the thing or just clamber about and see what you think (or I'll send pics or whatever - no problem).
As an experiment, my bike is also currently running an OE Yammie FJR1300 screen, mounted on my old Vario Screen mounts (as the GS bars are higher, then you're stuck up in the breeze a bit more. This was a £15 experiment in the search for as close as I can get to RT levels of 90mph cross-continental blasting without fitting a barn door or spending a fortune! Not fully tested or messed with yet though - so jury still out.
GS bars though are great (IMHO).
Re: R1150GS Handlebars
Is there an advantage to the GS bars on the "R"?
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Re: R1150GS Handlebars
Ron,
Dunno about 'advantage' - I suppose if you're happy with stock 'R' bars then there wont be. I've ridden a stock R back-to-back with my GS barred Rockster, and the GS bars are a bit higher and certainly wider than the R ones (GS bars are maybe 5" higher than stock Rockster set-up, but it's a lot less diff in height with R bars, though wider). Being used to the GS bars and the wide stock rockster bar before that, then the R felt small and my wrists close together (I think the R feels 'smaller' in general to the Rockster though - even though they are virually the same under the skin. maybe it's just me).
Of course, my mate on my bike felt it the other way around (higher/wider on mine) - you have to adapt from the familiar. The interesting thing was that, on the 10-mile ride out (on our own bikes) I followed him down, then followed him riding my GS barred bike) home over the same route. The typical speed was around 10mph faster everywhere when he was riding my (strange to him) bike home. He put it down to feeling confident to ride through the corners quicker. But it's all a matter of individual taste, and won't suit all.
Dunno about 'advantage' - I suppose if you're happy with stock 'R' bars then there wont be. I've ridden a stock R back-to-back with my GS barred Rockster, and the GS bars are a bit higher and certainly wider than the R ones (GS bars are maybe 5" higher than stock Rockster set-up, but it's a lot less diff in height with R bars, though wider). Being used to the GS bars and the wide stock rockster bar before that, then the R felt small and my wrists close together (I think the R feels 'smaller' in general to the Rockster though - even though they are virually the same under the skin. maybe it's just me).
Of course, my mate on my bike felt it the other way around (higher/wider on mine) - you have to adapt from the familiar. The interesting thing was that, on the 10-mile ride out (on our own bikes) I followed him down, then followed him riding my GS barred bike) home over the same route. The typical speed was around 10mph faster everywhere when he was riding my (strange to him) bike home. He put it down to feeling confident to ride through the corners quicker. But it's all a matter of individual taste, and won't suit all.
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Re: R1150GS Handlebars
I posted this up in 2009!grwrockster wrote:RB,
You've already seen a Rockster with GS 'bars. Mine has them and you even sat on the thing at the Mem Meet!
Hmmm.... must've been the beer
I don't live that far away from you (I like riding the thing anyway) and you're more than welcome to ride the thing or just clamber about and see what you think (or I'll send pics or whatever - no problem).
As an experiment, my bike is also currently running an OE Yammie FJR1300 screen, mounted on my old Vario Screen mounts (as the GS bars are higher, then you're stuck up in the breeze a bit more. This was a £15 experiment in the search for as close as I can get to RT levels of 90mph cross-continental blasting without fitting a barn door or spending a fortune! Not fully tested or messed with yet though - so jury still out.
GS bars though are great (IMHO).
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Re: R1150GS Handlebars
Hi Borderbiker. I was on a European tour to Austria in September on my GS barred Rockster. A brit biker also took pics (of the vario Screen mounts on the bars rather than the bars themselves tho) while I was out there as well. The odds are too long though surely, that one of your mates ran into me so far from home?
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Re: R1150GS Handlebars
RB,
I think either I'm losing it, or my 'puter is. It came up as a recent current topic - I wasn't trawling archives to reply to
Oh dear - I think maybe I'd better go for a lie down for a while
I think either I'm losing it, or my 'puter is. It came up as a recent current topic - I wasn't trawling archives to reply to
Oh dear - I think maybe I'd better go for a lie down for a while
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Re: R1150GS Handlebars
Great! now RB's pointed out the dates - I've also realised I've just replied to one of BB's historical posts 
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Don't bother nurse, it's a terminal case, just put him in back in the corridor.grwrockster wrote:Great! now RB's pointed out the dates - I've also realised I've just replied to one of BB's historical posts
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