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| See my KU6183 review for this product. |
| See my KU6183 review for this product. |
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I bought the KU6183 grips, KU6310 throttle boss, KU6238 end weights with the KU6226 black accent ring and the KU7436 chrome levers back in May. The look is fantastic. I was worried about all the extra chrome but it was just the right amount to enhance the bars. I greased the new levers per others recommendations and have had no issues with the cruise control not engaging. The chrome has been flawless on all the parts and have not had any peeling issues as some others have noted. Installation of the grips is a chore. I used a smooth-rounded shim to help set the rubber inserts into the chrome cover slots which seems to be the easiest and safest approach. Using Windex to slide the rubber inner covers over the existing grips is another good tip. I have a very slight gap where the chrome halves meet and cannot seem to get them to close completely no matter how I align the rubber inners. I think the look of the matching throttle boss is perfect. I am still not use to this contraption and at times find myself slightly engaging the throttle at stops. Another issue is that in the city, I tend to force my right hand inwards to not lean on the boss. This gives me a grip imbalance since my left hand stays outboard at the bar end. Just feels strange to my standard riding position. Another issue is that given the boss mounting slots and where they line up to the grip mount, I either have the boss to high or too low to accommodate the slots. You cannot rotate the grip due to the heater wiring, so for me, I cannot get the alignment on the boss that I like. I have medium-large hands. The grips seem a little too big for me. I truly love the look so I just deal with it, but will say that sometimes I just don’t feel comfortable with the lack of being able to “clinch†the grips, especially over rough roads. One last note that may ultimately have me remove them. As others have commented, you lose most of the heat transfer. I crank them on full and after 15 minutes, I may have 25% of the heat I once had. I got stuck in a freezing weather with rain, hail and snow in Tonopah, NV (on Memorial Day of all times) wearing only medium gloves and my hands were freezing (no, I didn't have winter gear in Spring). I am planning an Alaska trip and the lack of heat and grip size issue won’t be acceptable for that ride. A post script. I tried removing the left grip and found that the end weight mounting screw that connects to a compression nut inside the bar, was spinning and would not catch in order to remove it. I installed the screw with blue Loctite, since the previous stock screw had fallen out before. Given that, I was unable to remove the grip. Consider not using Loctite during your install just in case you decide to revert to stock. |
| I have about 115 miles on a new set of these as of today. I was riding on a disintegrating pair of Avon Cobra's that felt like they were shaped like a stop sign. So needless to say the ride now is better on round tires. I will give these things a few hundred miles and a few different road conditions before i pass judgement on them. But so far so good. They are fairly quite and for being new they handle very well ... so i am looking for that to even improve. We shall see. |
| I have used three sets of these tires and up to this last set i would have sworn by them. I loved the tires. Right now i have approximately 7k miles on a set and they are trash... and i mean trash. I have pictures of the rear tire .. the inside of the tire is coming apart, huge bubbles all the way around one edge on the inside ... It looks as if the layers of the tire are separating and maybe the belts are coming loose. The front tire was looking bad also just not quite as bad. Now i dont know what the reason for this is ..but i dont like it. If they had some problem on a given day or with a certain person building these tires ... it could have cost me my life. I wont buy them again. So to all that do... good luck ... and be careful. |
| I have had these on my wheels now for approximately a month. Dont expect much in the way of correcting tires that have started the downhill slide, the cupping and irregular wear. I had to change tires today from Avon Cobra's to Bridgestones. Now i dont have the silky ride i use to have with a good spin balance, at least today i didnt and i was riding on some nice highway. Now i will give them a fair chance to see what they can do... BUT if they dont get any better than what they are right now .. they will end up at the bottom of the river. |
| I'm about to order my third cord in about 8 months due to bad wires. Time to start keeping receipts and hopefully I can get the next broken one replaced. |
| Well, I ordered my first one and all went well for a while until I git three cracks developing on one side of the vent and three on the other side of the vent and one in the middle all growing everyday in length. I finally had to drill stop hole at the end of every crack. Call Wingstuff and they replaced it. Put the new one on and as of today 9-30-2012 I now have three cracks from one corner of the vent and one from the other migrating down. I have to go drill stop holes right now so I can use the bike this week and go to work. I have a e-mail and pictures on the way to Wingstuff right now. I hope they replace this one because I have a 300 mile ride schedule for Friday and I'm the lead guy. The last thing I want is this windshield to come apart in my face going down the road. I'm almost willing to go back to stock if I could find a stock height windshield with no vent or have the factory send me one of these with no vent hole. I never use the things anayway. Can that be done |
| I just installed this product and the day after the installation started up the bike and it looks like 3 of the lights are out.. Bummer! Now I gotta hope that they have it in stock to resend me another one. Maybe it was just a bad unit but now I'm worried about the other lights I brought for my wing. |
| These were recommednded by the dealer shop foreman at my first tire change. I have the Dunlop Elite 3 tires front and back. I have 12K miles on them with more to go and they are always smooth riding. Great product |
| Use this service repair manual CD just once and it will have paid for itself. Well worth the money. |
| Much less noise in the curves and more overall sensitivity. They don't like the "tar snakes" when the roads are wet, but it doesn't take long to get used to that. I like'm! |