Hello friends!
maybe i havent looked hard enough, but i havent found the answer to this question: are the clip-on tubes for the 1989 gs500 clip-ons proprietary? i see on bikebandit the tubes are 40+ dollars each, but i've been able to find aftermarket clip-on tubes (such as vortex) for only about 15. will these fit into the stock '89 clip-on clamps?
also, are the headlight and brakelight control modules from '03+ models going to fit onto those clip-on replacement tube?
random questions, i know, but what i've been finding seem to be most cost/time efficient for me. i just wanted to know if everything would be compatible before i invested the money.
The controls should work just fine. No idea about the Vortex tubes though. Can you post a link here?
Thanks, Bob!
Muahahahahahah ... I made some ... yours for 25 and ship for the pair. These will take press in weights, unless you want the original style weights ... in which case I'd set one up that way for you and send it.
I got some aluminum ... K forget that. It will mess up your end weights. And I have these in mondo thick only ... try 1/4 wall ... yea, monsters.
I have seen the vortex tubes, I suspect they should be fine, you need to notch them at that length the stock ones are notched. Them being 1/8th wall will prolly need careful notching. Go berserk and you'd chop through that aluminum like cutting through butter. Bench grinder to start and rat tail file to finish the job.
And your name is pandymai ? really ... you're pandy's long lost twin ??? yikes. Now there is 2 of em.
Cool.
Buddha.
Quote from: pandymai on October 19, 2009, 03:59:11 PM
Hello friends!
maybe i havent looked hard enough, but i havent found the answer to this question: are the clip-on tubes for the 1989 gs500 clip-ons proprietary? i see on bikebandit the tubes are 40+ dollars each, but i've been able to find aftermarket clip-on tubes (such as vortex) for only about 15. will these fit into the stock '89 clip-on clamps?
also, are the headlight and brakelight control modules from '03+ models going to fit onto those clip-on replacement tube?
random questions, i know, but what i've been finding seem to be most cost/time efficient for me. i just wanted to know if everything would be compatible before i invested the money.
Yes and yes. I did that on two of my sets of 89s. The aluminum aftermarket tubes are much nicer and lighter than the stock rusty steel ones...and probably stronger too. You have to file a notch for one of the retaining bolts and drill a hole for the brake/clutch pod control thingees. It's super easy. Just match the old ones up to the new ones. No need for a grinder. It only needs a minute with a rat tail file like buddha said.
Quote from: ineedanap on October 19, 2009, 08:10:12 PM
Quote from: pandymai on October 19, 2009, 03:59:11 PM
Hello friends!
maybe i havent looked hard enough, but i havent found the answer to this question: are the clip-on tubes for the 1989 gs500 clip-ons proprietary? i see on bikebandit the tubes are 40+ dollars each, but i've been able to find aftermarket clip-on tubes (such as vortex) for only about 15. will these fit into the stock '89 clip-on clamps?
also, are the headlight and brakelight control modules from '03+ models going to fit onto those clip-on replacement tube?
random questions, i know, but what i've been finding seem to be most cost/time efficient for me. i just wanted to know if everything would be compatible before i invested the money.
Yes and yes. I did that on two of my sets of 89s. The aluminum aftermarket tubes are much nicer and lighter than the stock rusty steel ones...and probably stronger too. You have to file a notch for one of the retaining bolts and drill a hole for the brake/clutch pod control thingees. It's super easy. Just match the old ones up to the new ones. No need for a grinder. It only needs a minute with a rat tail file like buddha said.
Thanks! i'll be sure to put everything together once i have all the parts.
and Buddha, panda + andy = pandy haha. if that's the same route the other pandy took to get to their name, well, kudos to them =]
Yea, Butt+hahaha = Buddha.
Cool.
Buddha.
Just make sure they're the same length or longer when you cut them. I have clipons on my GS from a completely different bike, and they work, but they're shorter, so everything is jammed together, and I had to cut a spacer out of an old mountain bike handlebar to wedge between the bars and the bar ends, because the grips went past the end of the bars on both ends.
Shouldn't be an issue, just measure twice, you know the deal.