UFO HandGuards

[SANGER_A2]

Well, as I've said in other posts, I ride all year round in the cold and my new grips aren't warm enough. I ordered some handguards to try and block some of the windblast on my hards. I bought some of these here on ebay somewhere for about £15 as it stated they were universal and worked on bikes with disc brake reservoirs.

I wasn't expecting them to fit perfectly and was willing to have to make liberal use of cable ties to keep them on. It wasn't too bad although I was a bit annoyed that the guards stated they were for a Suzuki RM125 instead of universal. They provide lots of bolts and things for you to use as replacements for the ones holding your levers on and I was able to use one of them on the right-hand handguard. For the left-hand side I had to use the Yamaha one and really squeeze down the guard as it was somekind of strangely shaped bolt.:-


I also had to chop off the bottom of the part of the left guard that would have fit around the clutch assembly but you can't see this anyway:-


The right-hand guard almost fits round the brake resevoir but it's a bit wonky. Not too bad though:-


I was going for function rather than form here and was only planning to use them in the winter, but they don't look too bad:-


Here you can see them fitting pretty well on the right side:-


And that's all folks. A practical rather than cosmetic mod but they work well and although I was tempted by the sexy Yamaha knuckle guards I be these work better as they're closer to your hands and they don't cost anywhere near the £70+ the Yamaha ones do!

[bmccrary]

Looks good! Thanks for sharing.

Can you get the bars to go full lock (left and right) with out hitting the fairing?

-bryan

[SANGER_A2]

Originally Posted by bmccrary

Looks good! Thanks for sharing.

Can you get the bars to go full lock (left and right) with out hitting the fairing?

-bryan

Just about. They touch the mirrors a bit but flex so it doesn't reduce the lock. I think that with the Polisport ones that attach at the barends as well they wouldn't flex inwards if they hit the mirrors and so you might lose some of the lock.