Tripple Tree? Cutting off handle bar mounts

[Richharr]

Never let anything but fear and common sense hold you back. The trees pictured were started with an angle grinder and a bastard file.

but thats just a cap?

[wayne cooper]

Actually several sets of trees were done at same time. Even with the fairing on they get noticed.

[Hammered]

Wanye, hes talking about cutting the bar clamps off to give the tree a smooth top. Like I said you can but theres a lot of work involved. If you are comfortable with a propane toarch, you can do this with no worries. With a welding filler called hts2000, you can fill in the area left from cutting. Its not as hard as all that but needs a steady set of nerves. The site is down right now but heres the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-cv3R4fWZc

[Agemax]

Never let anything but fear and common sense hold you back. The trees pictured were started with an angle grinder and a bastard file.

why? all you have done is bolted a one piece clamp on top of the original clamps. why do you need an angle grinder and a file to do that?

[wayne cooper]

Hammered

Liked your link, but I was just showing how easy it is to polish aluminum. As far as just changing to a one piece cap goes I actually polished a second set of trees. Nice that no one noticed that the recess for the Suzuki emblem is missing thanks to the above mentioned bastard file. Actually everything except for the engine cases are polished including the swingarm. At the present time I'm changing the paint colour. I was sorting out my paint cabinet the other day and decided to spill paint stripper on my old paint...

[blmiller8]

I tried cutting the tripple tree mounts off and ended up cutting too much so I had to big holes in the tripple tree. I took it up to my local bike shop to see if they were even still usable they are going to drill and tap some holes. Then put a plate on top and bottom. We are going to use some harley 6" risers with a 1" drag bar. We had to custom make the clutch so that it would work with the 1" hand bar. I will post pics next week when I get the bike back.