Interesting how the little details are different from the US models . Also , do you have two plates ?
I'm totally cheaping out and getting the eBay hand guards after seeing yours. Totally worth it, they look great and by the sounds of it they hold up decently well too. But who cares since they are only $20, lol, if you go down and they brake I'm sure $20 wont be hard to come up with to replace them. Your bike looks great, I have a question about the axle sliders if you don't mind. What size threaded rod did you use? I'm going to do the same mod to mine and save a bunch of money, all I need is the threaded rod and some hardware.
For the people that are using hand guards, if you are not sure of there durability for any reason, you may want to adjust the levers so in the event of a crash the bent hand guards do not interfere with the levers. Or possibly carry whatever tool would be needed to rotate the levers with you. My son had Acerbis hand guards, had a minor crash, and the result was the front brake was held 'on' cause the bent hand guard was holding it on... and we had no tools with us at all. Not fun trying to get that bike back to the truck.
On that note, I've got the cheap MSR handguards, like $60 for the set. I added some Zeta shields later. As for the strength of the MSR bars, I needed to tweak them just a bit to line up without binding the clamp bolts, to get them right where I wanted them, and in a vice, it took some pretty serious effort to deform them just a tiny bit... The bike has been down on the left handguard twice, and other than some scrubbing that I smoothed out with the dremel and painted over, you'd never know it.
Great advice....I hadn't thought of that. My old KTM had the Acerbis on and I gotta say they took a royal beating w/out any significant issues. There was some bending, but in all fairness I think any would've. At least on the old set I had the metal parts were very robust/thick.
what do you mean by two plates? thanks, man! the rod for the sliders had 14mm threads. i can't remember the length though, sorry. thanks for the tip! the clutch handle seems to clear the guard ok. only had to slide it inwards a little bit. the brake lever however, i had to rotate it downwards. so it's positioned under the handguard. i might cut the ball off later on like RD did
Riz, Have a look for my lever post. I cut the ends off and then used JBweld putty to make new balls. A bit of paint and you have some almost free shorty levers. Cam.
a little update on the bike...ODO is almost at 1000km now and I think it's loosened up nicely. A LOT more fun than when it was under 500kms. I'm pretty happy, even though there's still the occasional stalling here and there. Most likely cause I had shit fuel on my trip to the jungle last weekend cause it didn't stall this often last week. Will flush the tank when I get the time, maybe raise the idle a little bit, and an iridium CR8EIX plug (a pain in the ass to find).
I walked into my local Auto Zone, gave them the part nuber, they had 8 on the shelf, paid ~$10 and walked out. (Still waiting on my frickin' replacement gears from the UK though. Who knows how long I would be waiting on the from Husky, indefinite backorder...)
Please forgive my being lazy here...usually good about doing searches. Is CR8EIX most certainly the number for the iridium plug for the 630? Can't believe I haven't done this yet and if they're readily available I'll pick one up this weekend. Thanks!
daaaamn yooouuuuu! I haven't tried it out myself, since they're purple unicorns out here. but yea I've read a couple of posts confirming it
A little update...finally took a spill. And this happened after I swapped the cheap guards to a Zeta...dammit! My knee was sore for about a week but nothing major... Aaaaaand...guess what found it's way under my seat? Yup, a JD tuner Turns out this bike shop 10 mins away from work is used to ordering them. Got mine for around 280 bucks...not too bad Also, I swapped the stock battery for a Champion motorsports Lithium battery. $50 and she's almost 4kgs lighter About that JD tuner, I had to tweak the preset cause my ecu (CO) values isn't set to 0/0/0 yet. So basically had to reduce green,yellow,red to 3,3.5,and 4. Set the throttle snap and transitions down to 4 also cause it was jittery in the low-mid transition. Now, she's a whole new monster...gotta admit I was a bit scared of how she responds Looking forward to tweak it a bit more tomorrow View attachment 30029
