Cool. Post a pic?

Hmm.  And for $46, not a bad price.  Great find!

Oh boy!!

Quote from: PhaedrusCool. Post a pic?

+1   Please please...

Quote from: RoadstergalHmm. And for $46, not a bad price. Great find!

Thanks for the link!  

Yeah i will have to look into that.  Its simply getting to cold for my hands, those will help a lot.

If you check out pics of the Stroms, they're not bad lookin'...  But, I think this is more about function than form.

Thanks for checking it out for us all Jhart.  I always look at handguards to see if they'd fit a GS and have yet to see any.

I might just try to find some.........................  For cheap.  

OK.  They're not a direct bolt-on - some futzing is required.  A dremel and a bunch of washers.  I'll pull the ghetto fasteners and paint them black at some point.  I'll post details if you wannum.

Quote from: RoadstergalHmm.  And for $46, not a bad price.  Great find!

Depends on your definition of a bargain.

Those look great Roadstergal..!!!  Please post exactly what you used. I've tried everything to keep my hands warm.  I love the Winter Elite gloves but i have noticed the difference handguards make (when i tried out a BMW with 'em on last winter).  At one point i used those handlebar mitts which fit over the handlebars and you slip your gloved hand into the mitt to reach the handlebars.  I saw a lot of Vespas and food delivery guys around here using them so i figured let me give it a try.  Effective but not too pretty to look at and you had to take 'em off when parking the bike or guaranteed someone would swipe them.  Anyhow you made those guards look like they came with the bike.  Well done..!!  

Ghetto schmetto...Somehow fabricate a skull shaped nut to fit over those bolts and suddenly....badass..!!  

Excellent!!

Gotta get me a pair of those and fit'em.  JHart, Roadstergal, if it isn't obvious, then please post what's necessary to make'em fit.  

What     I have been gone for a few weeks and Roadstergal has another bike .... wow  

P.S. A step by step "How To" is in order for us with two left hands  :mrgreen:

I used the ones you slip your hands in a few years ago man they work great.

That actually does not look half bad. I was looking for something like that to fit my 96 GS.....I wonder if it will work the same. I'm sure a little Dremel action should get them to fit....

Quote from: ukchickenloverDepends on your definition of a bargain.

OE handguards for other bikes tend to be more like $100.  Acerbis handguards (the ones that folk have adapted to work with GSs) retail for $80.  So under $50 - new - isn't bad, and used would be cheaper.

Ja, I had some errands to run, so I picked up a set.  I have to run to get my seat cut; I'll post the details when I get back.

Don't hurry on my account -- can't get the parts today.  I'm helping with my daughter's Halloween party -- I get to be a Daddy turned into a Mummy.   :lol:

How about those bar ends.......    Do you have to have a hollow bar, or will the (older) closed-end bars still work?

You have to have hollow bars.  The bar ends slip into the bar and use an expandable rubber washer to hold them in place. Then the grips clip onto the groove in the bar ends

You might get it to work with the closed bars, depending on how they attach (I dunno, I never took a closed bar apart).  The guards slip between the provided spacer and the stock bar end.

Right-hand guard.  The replacement bolt for the horizontal side of things doesn't fit from the bottom, as it's supposed to, due to the diameter of the unthreaded portion.  I put it in though the top, and as I snugged it, it cut through the guard like buttah.  So I rigged up that ghetto washer (I had to cut some off to clear the brake fluid reservoir).  From below, I could only get the nut on a few threads on the underside mounting point, so I just put it inside and let the underside mounting point hang.  The longer bar end bolt works with the included spacer, and all snugs up nicely.

Left-hand guard.  The clutch switch is in the way of the lower mounting point, so I cut the tab off of the guard.  The bolt does fit through from below as it should.  I went ahead and just put a washer on top to preclude what happened on the other guard.  As mentioned, you have to cut a notch for the clutch cable.  The bar-end longer bolt needs a spacer like the other side, but they only include one, so I just used washers.  

So both guards are on by the upper mounting point and the bar-end point.  I have tested it... thanks to the breakin rev limit... up. to. 60. mph. :x   But they're solid...

The  guards  bump the mirror on the right and the fairing on the left when they're almost to full lock.  You can still lock the bars, and it hasn't bothered me yet.