|
Though it's a personal preference thang....
I'm STOKED about my Flander's "Clubman" 1" bars!
I don't have a Thruxton, so I know nothing of the clip-ons. My standard Bonnie came with bars the could be mistaken for the mini ape-hangers on yer kid sister's pink bicycle. I personally thought they were a bit narrow.
I changed out to the M-bars as marketed by our vendors, and have been running them for thousands of miles. They look really sharp in Black..... But to angle them in such a fashion as I think they are to be used, put undue pressure on my hands/wrists/forearms. I eventually angled them almost literally parallel to the ground. The resulting wrist angle was all wrong, and prompted me to steer the bike like you would expect to have to do with a steering wheel.
I ordered the Clubman bars for my Bonnie, because they most closely resembled the bars I put on my Sprint RS with the aid of an LSL handlebar kit. Imagine my surprise when I held them up to the factory handlebars, and found them to be of a similar angle, albeit a little less radical. Whereas the M-bars were causing my back between the shoulder blades to spam, yesterdays 200 mile ride didn't have me stretching for relief until the end of the day. The Clubmans are the bomb! They have less of a rise than your sister's ape-hangers, so they put you in a position to take care of business if ya have to....
More interesting still...... upside-down factory bars with risers. I had my factory mini ape-hangers powder coated Black along my risers from newbonneville.com. To run upside-down factory bars, you gotta have risers, otherwise they will hit the gas tank, or the top of tubes. The look good! The angle and placement ain't bad either! I haven't ridden with them, as I chose to put my Clubmans on.....
__________________
- 'Rider' -
Click here for a view of my Member's Album.
|
