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Looks like a good idea.
I guess you'd have to lengthen your cables a bit.
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comes with recommended change of front brake lines in with the kit,specific to the VTR


$400 dollars tho' :( :!:
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i did look at them ages ago paul but the price made me gag!!best to keep with the original (cheap)idea!! :lol:
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how much difference would these make??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %3AIT&rd=1

just seem a cheaper option
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Rincewind wrote:how much difference would these make??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %3AIT&rd=1

just seem a cheaper option
i had them on mine first before my conversion...theyre a waste of time for the dodgy wrist brigade..and of course new theyre about 75-80quid a pair! 8O complete bolllox!!
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thats a don't bother then i take it?
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sorry to be harsh mate but i wouldnt be able to sleep at night if i recommended them things and people payed their hard earned money just to be dissapointed! :wink:
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cool, i'll stay way from them then


cheers
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tony.wilde1 wrote:sorry to be harsh mate but i wouldnt be able to sleep at night if i recommended them things and people payed their hard earned money just to be dissapointed! :wink:
Did you use to work in sales by any chance Tony :?: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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sirch345 wrote:
tony.wilde1 wrote:sorry to be harsh mate but i wouldnt be able to sleep at night if i recommended them things and people payed their hard earned money just to be dissapointed! :wink:
Did you use to work in sales by any chance Tony :?: :lol: :lol: :lol:
nah mate,i bought them ferkin things from the states...cost me 70quid!!put them on ,all excited and...f@ck!!!useless!!i just paid all that money for a couple of bits of ally that made no difference whatsoever.let that be a lesson to yer.i wasted my money to save the other members wasting theres,how about that then ?i believe another bow is in order!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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tony.wilde1 wrote:
sirch345 wrote:
tony.wilde1 wrote:sorry to be harsh mate but i wouldnt be able to sleep at night if i recommended them things and people payed their hard earned money just to be dissapointed! :wink:
Did you use to work in sales by any chance Tony :?: :lol: :lol: :lol:
nah mate,i bought them ferkin things from the states...cost me 70quid!!put them on ,all excited and...f@ck!!!useless!!i just paid all that money for a couple of bits of ally that made no difference whatsoever.let that be a lesson to yer.i wasted my money to save the other members wasting theres,how about that then ?i believe another bow is in order!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
As I thought sales :!: :lol:

How do those things actually work, because it looks like if you put the risers on there's not much fork leg left for clamping the clip-on bar back on, without sliding the fork legs further up the yoke :?:
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sirch345 wrote:
tony.wilde1 wrote:
sirch345 wrote:
Did you use to work in sales by any chance Tony :?: :lol: :lol: :lol:
nah mate,i bought them ferkin things from the states...cost me 70quid!!put them on ,all excited and...f@ck!!!useless!!i just paid all that money for a couple of bits of ally that made no difference whatsoever.let that be a lesson to yer.i wasted my money to save the other members wasting theres,how about that then ?i believe another bow is in order!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


As I thought sales :!: :lol:

How do those things actually work, because it looks like if you put the risers on there's not much fork leg left for clamping the clip-on bar back on, without sliding the fork legs further up the yoke :?:
well you take yer bars off..pop them on and do the bars back up..and then ride and....arseholes..its thesame as before!!..the bars clamp on whats left of the fork protruding ,producing,protrusi,,,oh.....sticking out!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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tony.wilde1 wrote:well you take yer bars off..pop them on and do the bars back up..and then ride and....arseholes..its thesame as before!!..the bars clamp on whats left of the fork protruding ,producing,protrusi,,,oh.....sticking out!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
So not a lot really :!: :wink:
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