Yamaha TRX850 Enthusiasts Forum

1) When you order, tell them what colour handlebars you want, if you don't, like me, you may get black - like me
2) You will need to extend the pipe on the brake reservoir or make a new bracket for it as the kit only included a spacer (mine didn't) and the hose was too short anyway. I used a piece of garden hoe as a bracket. Ugly but functional.
3) The clutch cable is way too long and then the outer needs 35mm taking off it to get enough free cable at the bottom end
4) The throttle cable will need rerouting as they look impossibly short - but they do fit.
5) Handlebars appear to be very thick if not solid at that point so drilling twice to reposition the twistgrip is not a problem.
6) Brake cables are Hel braided lines and after a bit of careful bending do fit on blue spots
7) Top clamp is a nice bit of engineering.
There is nowhere to fit a mirror on the throttle side (not even enough room for a handlebar clamp). They do a clamp for the back of the brake lever assembly that costs about £20 but you don't get that with the kit. I still don't have one.
9) Even though you don't have too much spare space on the bars they are a bit too wide for me.
10) They do supply bar end weights.

Did you have to modify the fairing in any way ?

Was thinking of getting this kit myself,not sure now.

Sounds like a normal throttle cable will fit,and wonder if a TDM clutch cable would do.

May just get the top clamp and buy some Renthalls.

My drilled standard yoke worked with Renthals using the standard throttle and clutch cables with a bit of rerouting.

The documentation, of which there is little, did mention fairing mods. I removed it. see photo

I could not make the standard clutch cable reach with the very wide bars they supply.

The supplied clutch cable does work but needs some of the outer removing to make it fit, it is still too long.

Standard throttle cables are ok when rerouted.

Major wiring changes are required if you change the fairing and I have an import so all the colours are different to the Haynes book.

This presupposes that all kits are the same.

On the whole I believe that without the kit I would never have started to do the conversion. Over £300 focusses the mind. For me it has been worthwhile as I find the bike so much better when you can get a grip of it.