5. GPz900R - Streetfighter - The Bars and Handling

The Bars...

Why Change ?

"I have been riding streetfighters for years and love the feel of the wider bars, and after
a lot of research and looking at “hot gpz’s”, they all run different higher bars. Check out
AC Sanctuary GPz900R’s, they are real tough highly modified GPz’s in Japan." - Damien.

So, I had a look at the AC Sanctuary website. You should have a look.
Some pretty Nice machinery.

Well, the New bars are a Good Look on the GPz.  Nice Touch, I reckon.

"The other reason was to get back the handling that was lost after the rear wheel swap.
You think about the tyre height of the old 18”, and the tyre height of the new 17”, and the
profile is about an 1” difference, and then add in the actual wheel diameter and its
another ½“, so your talking about  1 ½” (30 mm), so I had always thought of slipping
the forks through the triples to gain some of this back."

"You cant do that with the standard bars fitted over the fork legs, so they had to go.
I purchased a set of fat bar riser’s from my mate at APW motorcycles in Brookvale
(Sydney), and picked up a set of chrome fat bars to match the old school look of the bike."

"The risers you need to drill your top triple to fit, and that’s it, simple!  I only run 1
throttle cable, and don’t run a choke cable. I just have a looped cable-tie in the end of
the choke bar. (the choke cable will not reach if you put on higher bars)"

"The throttle will, but you need to run it out the other side of the headstock (right side,
not left). The reason I only run one throttle cable is it makes the throttle heaps lighter
at your hand. I have been doing this on all my bikes for years."

"So, I have slipped the fork legs through the triples about 22mm from standard height, and
also flipped the rear concentrics. The bike handles awesome. It feels like my old zxr750,
light, sharp, and changes direction quickly."

"I would recommend it, especially with the rear wheel swap, because you have actually
slowed the steering by doing it , it changes the rake angle." - Damien.

Well... after Damien's comments, I really dont need to say anything more.

Oh... And can you see the Boss ?