F800GS handlebars

[everywherevirtually]

Does anyone know the width, diameter and rise of the 800 handlebars? This new Honda of mine has the tiniest handlebars known to man and I know that if I can swap them for something a little wider and with some more rise then I wont be reaching forward so much.

cheers

EV

 

[ide508]

860 mm wide -> 28mm diameter -> and they are 60mm high (from the base of where the bars are attached to the top of the handlebars.)
I'll let you do the converting thing

Cheers

 

[freeloader]

I got a slightly different diameter when I measured mine.
22mm at outer ends
28.5mm in the middle.

Curiously, the imperial measurements are almost exact as well, 7/8", and 1 and 1/8" (that looks odd but I don't know how to make fractions display in a smaller font ).

Glad to hear you're back on two wheels again. What's the new bike?

 

[everywherevirtually]

860 mm wide -> 28mm diameter -> and they are 60mm high (from the base of where the bars are attached to the top of the handlebars.)
I'll let you do the converting thing

Cheers

Don't worry Bernard, I'm one of the metric boys who grew up after 1972

I got a slightly different diameter when I measured mine.
22mm at outer ends
28.5mm in the middle.

Curiously, the imperial measurements are almost exact as well, 7/8", and 1 and 1/8" (that looks odd but I don't know how to make fractions display in a smaller font ).

Glad to hear you're back on two wheels again. What's the new bike?

I'm now riding Mort's CB500. He very kindly washed it before he sold it to me so I feel a little bad that I sanded all the paint off . It's getting the satin black treatment. I've done the bodywork, forks, will do the footpeg hangers and ultimately the engine. Would like to tweak the ergonomics a little. Lower the pegs, raise the seat and bring the bars back a little and it will be much more comfortable then.

 

[freeloader]

I'm now riding Mort's CB500. He very kindly washed it before he sold it to me so I feel a little bad that I sanded all the paint off . It's getting the satin black treatment. I've done the bodywork, forks, will do the footpeg hangers and ultimately the engine. Would like to tweak the ergonomics a little. Lower the pegs, raise the seat and bring the bars back a little and it will be much more comfortable then.

I know feck all about this particular CB500, but I guess it must be an improvement on the one I had - a 1974 500/4, probably a bit of an old tank compared to yours.


Thought it was great at the time, though. Although it was a replacement for a Norton Commando, so almost anything would have seemed pretty good.