Please share your secrets! What mods have you made to your TRX?
Moderators: trixynut, Mincehead, dicky, phuk72, Jak, Kevtrx849
-
Reddog
- Former Member
- Posts: 267
- Joined: Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:54 pm
- Location: Adelaide Hills,South Australia
Post
by Reddog » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:39 pm
Hi there,is it possible to mount the handle bars above the triple clamps same as stock TRX?
I have YZF front end to go in and just noticed the handle bars all mount below.
Can I loosen the clamps and slide the forks up so as to mount them above or will this alter Rake,Trail and handling?
any feedback or experience would be welcome.

-
phuk72
- Site Sponsor / Administrator
- Posts: 3522
- Joined: Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:47 pm
Post
by phuk72 » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:53 pm
Of course you can but I'd suggest you will bugger up geometry (and you may also find that you smash your front guard o the rad)
-
trixynut
- Site Sponsor
- Posts: 2572
- Joined: Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:48 pm
- Location: Leicester, England
Post
by trixynut » Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:17 pm
YZF forks are shorter than TRX ones. Even when installed correctly the TRX will sit lower at the front with yzf forks, and fork top is designed to sit flush with yoke, not like the trx one.
So as the Phukmeister sez, dropping the yoke by 20mm or so to give enough space to fit the clipons above the yoke will make the bike pretty much unrideable.
-
Mincehead
- TRX-Enthusiast
- Posts: 6345
- Joined: Sun Jan 25, 2009 1:40 pm
- Location: West Sussex
-
Contact:
Post
by Mincehead » Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:17 pm
Interestingly `quick` to turn.

LOUD PIPES SAVE LIVES
-
Tarwetijger
- TRX-Enthusiast
- Posts: 1524
- Joined: Tue May 15, 2007 9:31 am
- Location: Netherlands, Assen
-
Contact:
Post
by Tarwetijger » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:52 pm
What you need are raised clipons. That's how I did it.
-
phuk72
- Site Sponsor / Administrator
- Posts: 3522
- Joined: Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:47 pm
Post
by phuk72 » Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:31 am
Tarwetijger wrote:What you need are raised clipons. That's how I did it.
good point well made
Mrs phuk's old SV650 (with a gixxer thou front end) had vario bars - bloody brilliant they were
-
Kevtrx849
- Moderator
- Posts: 1216
- Joined: Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:09 am
- Location: Queensland Australia
Post
by Kevtrx849 » Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:13 am
I fitted some Apex multi adjustables to my R1 setup. couldn't be happier with the quality and the end result.
www.apexmfg.com
If everything seems under control
your just not going fast enough.
( HENRY FORD )
-
Reddog
- Former Member
- Posts: 267
- Joined: Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:54 pm
- Location: Adelaide Hills,South Australia
Post
by Reddog » Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:18 pm
Thanks fella's for your words of wisdom,however during the day I had come to the same conclusions to fit some after market high rise clip ons.
