I got my new bars in the mail on Saturday and had them on in a couple hours. It took longer than I wanted it to because the cables and the wires had to be tucked in and made to fit. the cabling on this bike is a mess. i need to make new cables for it and clean them up. I opened up the headlight bucket and tried to stuff some of the cables in there but it was just such a mess. The starter button doesn't always work now either. If it is the first start of the day then you need to push start the stupid thing but if you were riding within the last hour or so then you can hold the button and twist the throttle til it decides it wants to start. Its a weird thing. I think I want to make some significant changes tho this bikes electrical once ive got it out of service for the winter. Clean up the wiring. maybe even run the cables in the handlebars or something. The bike looks pretty bad but with the new bars it is much more sporty feeling. I love the riding position. Much more comfortable. I will order some new mirrors to replace the old ones because right now it looks way too busy. the seat will stay for a while until i can find some tubing and bend a rear hoop. I have access to a tubing bender at school and I can weld it to the bike once I can make changes without needing to ride it home. Im thinking I want to paint the tank grey or silver and most other things flat black. I like the idea of a brown or tan vinyl seat. I would like leather for a seat but that might not do so well if it was to get wet. Still getting bad gas mileage. Ive been getting about 90 miles out of 3.6 gallons. Our camry got better gas mileage than that. I don't know if I need to sync the carbs or something else but that hasn't been done since I put in the new jets so its a fair assumption.
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