Pics of my handguards and bent handlebars! lol

shortstop20

shortstop20

New member
Joined
Mar 6, 2005
Messages
1,583
Age
38
Location
Stickney, South Dakota
Website
www.snowmobilefanatics.net
Here's some pics of my yellow handguards mounted on my SRX. I purchased them and the shock covers from Sinjin. They look great! ;)! If you look close at the pics with the taller winshield my handlebars are bent. I'm not quite sure how I bent them but do you guys think it would work if I heated them up and tryed to bend them back?
 

Attachments

  • 000_0328.jpg
    000_0328.jpg
    29.7 KB · Views: 8
  • 000_0331.jpg
    000_0331.jpg
    32.5 KB · Views: 6
  • 000_0332.jpg
    000_0332.jpg
    33.8 KB · Views: 10
  • 000_0333 (Medium).jpg
    000_0333 (Medium).jpg
    42.4 KB · Views: 8
  • 000_0334.jpg
    000_0334.jpg
    43.6 KB · Views: 7

Here's 2 pics of my winter wonderland, but most of the snow is rock-hard now! :o| The first pic was during the middle of the storm. You could only see about a 1/4 mile there. It got worse later too. The 2nd pic is the snow pile from our driveway! ;)! Total for the storm was about 14" here. We ended up getting another 5" on that Wednesday also. The wind has been blowing so bad here though lately that the drifts became rock hard fast. #$%&*
 

Attachments

  • 000_0329.jpg
    000_0329.jpg
    15.9 KB · Views: 4
  • 000_0330.jpg
    000_0330.jpg
    29.7 KB · Views: 4
Last edited:
your sled is looking good...
wish we had some of that snow here....
i bent my bars back by taking the bar hooks out, putting a bar in the end and slowly bending them back, although they weren't quite as bent as your looks....2000kms later they are still holding up. i didn't use any heat as mine were just slightly tweaked
 
Maybe I'll try the bar trick. I figured heating them up would make them weaker so I wanted to ask before I did it. I'm not going to invest in a set of new bars either unless they're under $100 or so. Not sure how much longer I'm going to keep this sled.
 
Why not use the adjustment from the steering rod unde the exhaust, are the bars bent or just cocked one direction?
 
yes dont heat the steel, it will undo the affects of the tempering and weaken the steel. My buddy bent his pretty good on his '98 srx and just slowly bent them back as someone else said, with a bar on the end of the bars. It's not your steering stem that is bent is it? They are kind of weak on the '98s.
 
Dont heat the bars to bend them, it weakens the metal alot. Friend did that on his bike and the broke after bending twice as bad on his first ride. Just get a new set as already mentioned.

Shortstop, I recognize you from snowmobileworld. There is so much on this site that ill be here weeks just trying to look at everything!
 
Yamahammer485 said:
Dont heat the bars to bend them, it weakens the metal alot. Friend did that on his bike and the broke after bending twice as bad on his first ride. Just get a new set as already mentioned.

Shortstop, I recognize you from snowmobileworld. There is so much on this site that ill be here weeks just trying to look at everything!
Click to expand...

Ya, I'm there every once and a while. It doesn't ever seem like there's much going on there though. I visit this site, Snowmobile Fanatics and HCS everday though. :WayCool:
 
how big of a bar riser would i have to get to make up for the height of the stock handle bars and and extra two inchs, i have a set of pro tapers but i havnt really wanted to experiment with them and end up wrong... is there anything else i need to change besides a bigger riser??? (throttle cable, brake cable, etc)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.


Back
Top