{"id":81234,"date":"2008-10-24T21:34:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T12:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=81234"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:14","slug":"z1000r-handlebar-adjustment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20081024\/everyday-events\/z1000r-handlebar-adjustment","title":{"rendered":"Z1000R Handlebar Adjustment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_57089734_3.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_57089734_4.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_57089734_5.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> handlebar replacement.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s one of those parts that lets you change your riding position.<br \/>\nI think a lot of bikes have handlebars that are too far away or too high. (Though it depends on your build, I guess.)<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re over 180 cm tall with pretty long limbs, you&#8217;re good, but I&#8217;d say most people aren&#8217;t in that boat.<br \/>\nI think what feels best is something fairly low with good grip and enough room at the elbows.<br \/>\nIf your elbows are cramped, you can&#8217;t move your body around, and you end up using only a small part of that nice wide seat.<br \/>\nSince you can&#8217;t really tell how a handlebar feels until it&#8217;s installed, I think trying a bunch of different ones is the way to go.<br \/>\nWhen you change the handlebar, it affects the throttle and clutch too, so you absolutely have to turn the handlebar all the way left and right<br \/>\nto check for play and make sure nothing hits the tank.<br \/>\nThis time, since the cable was hitting, I rerouted it (top exit) and adjusted that crazy high-throttle<br \/>\nthrottle sleeve to be a bit low-throttle (by reducing the winding diameter) to make it variable.<br \/>\nLight controls are comfortable, I think.<br \/>\nAnd these kit cables are ridiculously long, so I shortened the throttle inner cable.<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t tell at first glance, but this should make it way more fun! \u266a<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got an early start tomorrow, so I&#8217;m wrapping up here while things are at a good stopping point.<br \/>\nThe fluid&#8217;s getting pretty dirty too.<br \/>\nSee you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; handlebar replacement. It&#8217;s one of those parts that lets you change your riding position. I think a lot of bikes have handlebars that are too far away or too high. (Though it depends on your build, I guess.) If you&#8217;re over 180 cm tall with pretty long limbs, you&#8217;re good, but I&#8217;d say most people aren&#8217;t in that boat. I think what feels best is something fairly low with good grip and enough room at the elbows. If your elbows are cramped, you can&#8217;t move your body around, and you end up using only a small part of that nice wide seat. Since you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55,115],"class_list":["post-81234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog","tag-z-aircooled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}