Installing handguards?

[Waaarrrggghhh]

I'm considering getting some handguards for my YBR 125, is it an easy/simple affair or would I be better off taking it to a dealer to get it fitted on?

Anyone else done this before?

[stinkwheel]

Seems simple. Often isn't.

A dealer will be no better at it than you. Most probably wouldn't touch the job or would give you a "fuck off" price to do it.

Main problems are because handguards are made for dirt bikes. They tend to have no mirrors, no fairings, smaller master cylinders and shorter levers.

So you need to get them on avoiding your mirrors and fairing at both locks and modify them so they fit over the M/C.

Biggest problem then is if they stop the brake or clutch lever returning all the way out.
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[Rogerborg]

You'll be able to bodge something on. I've most recently gone with these:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291406867673

(or, for posterity, "FULL WRAP AROUND HAND GUARDS" - cheaper versions of these will be available, look around)

Those ones extent quite far forwards, although my clutch lever just barely touch them.

As Mr wheel says, you may have issues attaching them. My bar ends are hollow, and they slot right in. If you have bolt-in ends, you should be able to remove the weighs and bolt the guards on instead.

The inner ends attach as it please God. Those ones come with clips, but your controls may be in the way. Mine are cable tied on, win.
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[P.]

Why, would be my question.

[Waaarrrggghhh]

[kgm]

[BTTD]

I fitted hand guards on my old speed triple to support muffs. I bought a set of "carbon effect" aluminium and plastic ones off ebay. Solid aluminium bar all the way through - actually quite impressive for the £20 or less that they cost me. Easy to fit.
I did need to replace the levers with shorter ones (again ebay, cnc direct from China ones). Again I was impressed - the cheap levers look to be better quality than the oem Triumph ones.

[Rogerborg]

[P.]

[Monkeywrenche...]

[Rogerborg]

I'm just saying:

https://i.imgur.com/omZUmgr.jpg?1
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Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

I've got some on my klx250 - what a pita it was fitting them. My reasons for getting some (half-decent, pretty strong ones - Acerbis, alloy braced that screw into the bar ends etc. etc.) were to prevent the front brake getting pushed on by branches.

The klx's stock bars are braced - and it was this that made fitting really quite tricky. So much so that I ended getting some Renthal replacement bars that weren't braced - but which I believed were of thicker tubing, thus not forfeiting much in the way of strength. In fact I'm pretty sure the thicker Renthals, in turn, might've required bigger u-bolts and clamps - which wasn't viable without incurring yet more bullshit and expense.

So in the end, yes, I now have hand guards - but this gain is off-set by arguably weaker bars (because not braced i.e.) - and also bear in mind the expense and quite lengthy faff of fitting both the guards and new bars. And also note that I'd put a - what - a thousand-ish miles on the bike riding green lanes without ever getting interfered with by branches. So - really - total waste of time and money tbh.
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Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[Falco]

On my CG 125 I had these beauties but after some fiddling the right arm fouled on the brake reservoir. Ground a chunk off the arm so it fit over it and it was great until 2 days later when I dropped the bike and broke it. Bought another set and they lasted till the bike was written off some 7 months later.

They held up fine at 65 (indicated 70) for the short periods the bike could reach those speeds. They are actually very useful on a 125, I was never comfortable about running heated grips off such a small system and these kept my fingers out of the wind and rain well enough.