handlebar raisers

[Barton]

Want to raise my bars by 25mm i can get spacers made to fitt under bar clamps but looks like odd shaped bolt holding clamp to top yoke, what other option do i have, loke the bend of the bars i got so dont want to change them just get them higher

 

[gassergrant]

on my standard bar I used the universal bar lifters that bolt in to the original clamps

http://shop.1stmx.co.uk/universal-bar-riser-kit-for-standard-and-fatbars-4993-p.asp

picture paints a thousand words they work well and feel safe

 

[gasser]

Take the caps off your bar clamps, pull your handlebars up and reinstall the caps upside down underneath the handlebars then add new caps on top with longer bolts.

 

[Barton]

Take the caps off your bar clamps, pull your handlebars up and reinstall the caps upside down underneath the handlebars then add new caps on top with longer bolts.

looked at doing that but a cheaper option was for a mate to turn up some alloy spacers and i re-shaped the head of two stainless bolts to fit the gasser clamps, total cost ?1.50 for the bolts.

 

[motopsycho87]

looked at doing that but a cheaper option was for a mate to turn up some alloy spacers and i re-shaped the head of two stainless bolts to fit the gasser clamps, total cost ?1.50 for the bolts.

Exactly what I did , got some bar, drilled a hole in it, got longer bolts and ground 2 sides off them

 

[shang]

I don't know a lot about metal hardnesses but it might be worth looking at how hard stainless is compared to say a grade 8 bolt. I thought stainless was kinda soft?

 

[spooly]

I don't know a lot about metal hardnesses but it might be worth looking at how hard stainless is compared to say a grade 8 bolt. I thought stainless was kinda soft?

stainless steel would be a lot harder

 

[Simmo737]

Bolt grade research will show that stainless is not as hard as you think.
An 8.8 bolt would be way stronger. Gas gas bolts on the bars and triples are 12.9 which is a very, very strong bolt and at least twice as strong as stainless, probably three times.

 

[Barton]

There are diffrent grades of stainles like s130 very tough used in the aerospace industry.
harder means more brittle, the bolt grades are to do with strain when tightening,

 

[spooly]

so is a stainless steel bolt strength measured differently? (just curious)

 

[Barton]

Bolt grade research will show that stainless is not as hard as you think.
An 8.8 bolt would be way stronger. Gas gas bolts on the bars and triples are 12.9 which is a very, very strong bolt and at least twice as strong as stainless, probably three times.

and they tighten into aluminium

 

[shang]

and they tighten into aluminium

Your bar clamp bolts tighten into aluminum? My '13 has a big steel nut on the bottom of the top triple. All of my bikes have been like this.

I wasnt trying to start a debate, I just thought I would mention it from a safety stand point. It would be a bummer to have one of those bolts break.

 

[Barton]

agree no debate
the 87 husky and early gagivas had rubber mounted handlebar clamps in the white power forks, in a minor bump these would move. So I removed the rubber and replaced with a pressed in bush and used stainless bolts, if I had a whack the bolts would bend but i could still ride back to home with bent steering. if the bolts had been harder they could have possible sheared leaving me with floppy bars or put the stress somewhere else and cracked a triple clamp or snapped the handlebars.