I'm wanting to put on clipons to lower the bars, but I would also need to move the pegs back a bit.  From my research, I need something called rearsets???  Not entirely sure about this...

Any info anyone?

Rearsets move the pegs up and back, into a more sportbike position, rather than just the sport-standard type we've got now. Honda CBR F3 rearsets can be made to fit with only a little modification.

What about the actual foot controls?  I asume they move with the pegs?

Is there a write-up on modifying the CBR's rearsets for a GS?

i think this is it...yay pablo
http://pantablo500.tripod.com/id46.html

if not i suck and im drunk so leave me alone

Thankz Skoozi!

np i hope it helps. and thank pablo, he's the one with the freakishly awesome site.

Quote from: skoozi12 on March 06, 2006, 09:59:05 PM
np i hope it helps. and thank pablo, he's the one with the freakishly awesome site.

+1

I enjoy looking at his site for mod info.

Quote from: annguyen1981 on March 06, 2006, 10:04:49 PM
+1I enjoy looking at his site for mod info.

We all know ya' jus' have a crush on him! 

(P.S. Who took over my account and posted that!?  )



(We *really* need a halo emoticon around here! )

be-have!

actually, a member who's local to me did the mod and its a bit more work than my site states...one thing that has to be done is that you need to retain the heim joint for the shifter rod and the plate it attaches to. then cut that plate off and weld the stock gs shifter to it. I'll email him to photograph it and maybe do a write up expanding on my page.

will get back to you.
pablo-

I've put clip-ons and low bars on a lot of my bikes without rear-sets.  Try it first.  If you're comfortable, then don't waste the money.  I'm pretty suspect of your abillity to make the stock peg's clearance an issue.

clearance might not be an issue but comfort might. James (the member I am referring to) was more comfortable with the rearsets and his Suburban-machinery bars. I can vouch that with the S-M bars my feet could have been a little farther back, but it wasnt so much an issue for me.

Yeah that's what I was saying...if he's comfortable with the lower bars and stock pegs then he has no reason to spend the $300+ on quality rear-sets.  Just a waste of money...

Quote from: makenzie71 on March 06, 2006, 11:48:48 PM
Yeah that's what I was saying...if he's comfortable with the lower bars and stock pegs then he has no reason to spend the $300+ on quality rear-sets.  Just a waste of money...

You can get F3 rearsets for ~$50 I think.

yeah but they're not very pretty and they have to be hacked up to fit...one or a combination of those two traits eliminates 90% of the people interested.  The kind of people who do tend to do this kind of thing do it on race tracks because it's cheap to repair and replace and it's mildly effective.

left side:



right side:


I seem to recall an issue connecting the rear brake light switch too. James offered to write something up shortly (week or two).

Yeah, those look real nice. 'Specially for stockers. If only I had some money...

Quote from: pantablo on March 06, 2006, 10:43:27 PM
... that you need to retain the heim joint for the shifter rod and the plate it attaches to. then cut that plate off and weld the stock gs shifter to it.

its the opposite of what I said. Look at the left side picture again. the part of the stock gs shifter that connects to the shift rod needs to be retained, cut off the rest of the shifter and weld the heim joint to that.

Quote from: pantablo on March 07, 2006, 01:09:01 AM
lJames offered to write something up shortly (week or two).

Hopefully sooner than that...working on it right now...

-James

Okay, here's a basic CBR600 Rearset How-To:

http://three91.com/gs500/cbr600_rearsets/

I did the mod about 2 years ago, so the write-up was from my foggy memory (read: errors likely).  Let me know if you have any questions about it.

James

Quote from: chimivee on March 11, 2006, 02:25:58 AM
Okay, here's a basic CBR600 Rearset How-To:

http://three91.com/gs500/cbr600_rearsets/

I did the mod about 2 years ago, so the write-up was from my foggy memory (read: errors likely).  Let me know if you have any questions about it.

James

Thankz for the writeup!  BTW, great looking design for the write-up page.  simple yet different.  I like the light gray borders around the sections.  I never thought about anything like like before.