Got a small bottle jack? Cut piece of 4x4 (or two 2x4s nailed together), fashion a base for it, so it will stand upright under your bar ends, insert the jack between top of the wood and bottom of bar and (slowly and carefully) elevate the jack.
Worked for me after I dropped the bike and bent the bars (don't ask!) once upon a time, in a land far away. On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 10:07:38 AM UTC-4, EGrider wrote: > Took me a while to realize it, but that new PC800 I got has both > handlebars bent down slightly. This is no doubt because the dspo, who > delivered it to me on a trailer, put the ratchet straps on the handgrips > for lack of a better place and cinched them down too strongly. It's > rideable and all, but the plastic around the bars doesn't match up now, and > worse, my hands are right in the middle of my mirrors, blocking my rear > view. > > New handlebars are $100+. Ouch. Let me try bending them just a bit. > > Does anyone have a good idea how I could bend them back up slightly? Put > hooks on the ceiling and ratchet strap them up? I was thinking about taking > the stuff off the handlebars, slipping a length of pipe on each end, > standing on the pegs, and pulling. Except I'm not sure I'm strong enough or > that my arms are long enough to add take advantage of the lever action. I > also have no such pipe, just some 2-inch PCV left over from when I tapped > in some fork seals.If I stand on one side, I risk tipping it over. > > Ideas? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
