Monday, Jan 26 2015 [1546 miles]
I’ve been meaning to replace the plastic air deflectors that Suzuki calls hand guards with something a bit more proctective for a while. I finally got arround to ordering some guards with small wind deflectors. They arrived this morning.
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These are the stock guards. They keep the air off of your fingers. They don’t do much more than that.
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The above are the Moose Racing kit that I ordered from Procycle. The first picture shows the small black protector test fit on the aluminum handguard so I could mark the spot to drill the needed mounting holes. The appropriate size drill bit came with the deflectors.
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I took off the stock handguard on the clutch side and then tried to remove the bar end weight. That didn’t go so well. I couldn’t break the screw free with the tools I tried. I wasted lots of time, mostly due to being too lazy to break out the proper tool.
Tuesday, Jan 27 2015 [1546 miles]
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I stopped being lazy. I hooked up the impact gut to the compressor and had the bar ends off in about 7 seconds. Took longer to hook up the tool and put it away than to do the job. With the bar ends off I got the handguard mounting hardware ready.
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It’s a minor pain getting the bar clamps in position. There is no access to the top clamp mounting screw when the clamps are rotated into their proper position — the cross bar is in the way. I tightened the top screw to what I hoped was an appropriate amount then rotated the clamp to position the guards and finally tightening the bottom screw of the clamp. It seems pretty sturdy.
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The new guards and small wind deflector mounted. The ball of the clutch lever just touches the guard. I may remove the guard and give it a slightly different bend to try to get some extra clearance. The throttle side is fine.