Hi,

I had the Yamaha OEM (Acerbis) hand guards fitted by Yamaha which is all fine and dandy but I didn't see what they did to put them on. I now have some Renthals and I want to shift the hand guards over. The bar end insert thingies are wedged inside the stock Yamaha bars and before I apply de rigeur brute force and ignorance I thought I'd ask.

I'm going to guess that it's the same set up as http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/fo...d.php?t=233459 and so the reason they're wedged in is that the tapered "nut" (5) has been pulled back out of the handlebars by repeated turns of the bolt thus splaying the thingy (4) and locking the whole setup into the inside of the bars.

So, to undo it, should I screw the bolt back in then tap it ever so gracefully with a hammer to push the taper beyond the splayable thingy then wiggle everything until Bob's yer uncle?

Even then that thread suggests I might need to get creative to increase the diameter of the insert to get it to grip non-steel bars. That's a problem for when they're out!

Cheers,

Ian