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Colin955Devon

Hi All,

I have just ordered a set of Heli bars for my 2006 daytona 955i, I have also eagerly downloaded the fitting instructions but they are extremely vague.

Anyway the question is about removing the top yoke from the bike, Am i right in assuming that I can remove the top nut, loosen the fork clamps and lift it straight off to remove the old clipons and replace with the helis, or does the front end need to be stripped.

I am reasonable competant and used to work as a car technician years ago, but know very little about bike setups.

Any help or instructions here would really help.

Thanks

Col.

DaytonaNewbie

It was one of the first things I did on my bike. You'll love em.
A friend was helping me with mine, & he had most of it done so quickly I barely had time to notice the details, but it went very much like you've got it figured out. Very straightforward, no complications

DEcosse

Correct - that's all there is to it.

Haven't used Helis so don't know one way or other if the bars are pre-drilled for the switches - doubtful though. So you need to either drill holes for the locating pins in the switches, or conversely just zip the plastic locating dowels off the switch with a dremel or file, whatever you have.

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Badger76

Colin, I'd be interested to know how you get on, as I'm thinging about fitting some Heli bars to mine.
Alan

Colin955Devon

thanks for the replies guys, i was hoping it would be simple, It states on their site that they are predrilled so i should be ok with that, i am assuming that i will also need new grips as well ????

Badger I will try and get some pics up for you, the bike has got LSL Clipons at the moment, the postion is ok but i cant adjust the levers low enough th be comfrotable, they foul on the riser brackets !! so i thought id try the helis.

DaytonaNewbie

I do remember mine were pre-drilled. I got a little hamfisted & broke one of the **** of the back of the switch housing, so be careful in the disassembly. But everything went together as sweet as one could ask for.

blkhrt81

I just put a set of Helis on my 02 Daytona, you don't need to pull the top yoke. Dismantle your bars, loosen the pinch bolt on the yokes and slide the forks down enough for clearance. Two or three inches is all you need. I pulled the front fender and put a small jack between the wheel and bottom yoke and just jacked up until I got the room, let the jack down, wiggled a bit until I got the forks back in place and tightened everything back up.

DaytonaDave

You beat me to it blkhrt81 ! Just drop the legs.

I also had to shorten the pipe from the master cylinder reservoir. If you are carfeul this can be done without having to rebleed the brakes afterwards.

The only issue I had was with the bar ends. The heli bars had a 6mm thread and the stock bar ends have a 5mm. But some nice turned alloy ones I found on ebay for a Bandit fitted and looked the biz.

Enjoy the new bars.

DEcosse

Sure you don't need to: While that's possible to do that way (dropping forks), sure seems like a whole lot more work vs removing the top yoke where you don't even need to raise the front end to do that (although good practise to have the load off the frnt end).
I have a Pitbull stand that lifts the bike from under the bottom yoke (making the dropping forks process even easier) & I still wouldn't do it that way. What is the aversion to removing the yoke thereby causing the process to be more convoluted?

All comes down to personal preference I guess.

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DaytonaDave

I take your point. But I didn't have the tool to undo the centre nut.

As you say it is a personal preference.