Heated twist grip going tight

[kevingambrell]

HI
Riding home the other evening I had the heated grips on full on my 06 R1200GS. After about 10 miles I started to think my twist grip was becoming tighter and less easy to use. I turned off the heated grips and after a mile or so it felt like all was back to normal.
Is this a problem any one else has come across?

 

[Deleted account 190419001]

I've just bought my GS but the chap I bought off, from this parish, told me he'd had the same problem, cured by adding a washer to the bar end to space the hand guard from the grip - if that makes sense...

 

[kevingambrell]

Thank you yes it does make sense. I may have a go at that given I have a day off and its going to rain.

 

[Engineer]

HI
Riding home the other evening I had the heated grips on full on my 06 R1200GS. After about 10 miles I started to think my twist grip was becoming tighter and less easy to use. I turned off the heated grips and after a mile or so it felt like all was back to normal.
Is this a problem any one else has come across?

Yes it is a very old problem - can be solved by removing the bar end weight and putting a washer in to space it away from the twist grip - that's what I did - alternatively you could by an LC

 

[kevingambrell]

Job done turned 50 thou off the bar end weight and slavered up with some red rubber grease turns and returns far better
il try it with heat later.

Thank you chaps

 

[Deleted account 190419001]

Yes it is a very old problem - can be solved by removing the bar end weight and putting a washer in to space it away from the twist grip - that's what I did - alternatively you could by an LC

Love classic Yams, but not great for touring.....

 

[kevingambrell]

Blimey i toured the length and breadth of Sussex in my youth on a 350 LC mostly hunting for women!
It wasnt till I bought a BSA A65 lightning that my hunting trips paid off!

 

[Bendy toy]

The RHS switch block is clamped to the handlebar. Remove the front (back from rider's viewpoint) losses the clamp move bock a mm and re-assemble.

The LHS has an annoying screw threaded into the handlebar why that isn't clamped is anyone's guess.

 

[Engineer]

Blimey i toured the length and breadth of Sussex in my youth on a 350 LC mostly hunting for women!
It wasnt till I bought a BSA A65 lightning that my hunting trips paid off!

There is something just a little creepy about that.

 

[kevingambrell]

Never heard an A65 lightning described as creepy, unreliable yes but creepy no

 

[Bendy toy]

British bikes illuminated by Joe Lucas Prince of Darkness. But to be fair 21 watts of Nippon Denso's finest tungsten wasn't very much better.

 

[kevingambrell]

Joe Lucas! the only lights so dim you couldnt see the road but still able to cause an electrical fire in the headlight shell!

 

[Bendy toy]

Oh what fun I had with Lucas bullet connectors. Vibration would eventually snap the bullets off the wire ends. But the connectors were either too loose or too tight so wires snapped when separating the connector or they just fell out and fried the loom. Fuse? What fuse?