Swapping the Handlebars on a Honda CBX250

[gido260]

Hi Everyone!

I'm looking at buying an 84 Honda CBX250 and converting it to a street tracker. I think they would be a good bike to convert and should be good fun. I have found plenty of CBX250 bikes "cafed" but never a tracker. Has anyone seen anything on the net of one being done?
Any opinions on the bikes? All reviews I've read suggest they are very similar to the cb250rs, just a bit more refined and more powerful.
One issue I'm going to come across is swapping the handlebars. They come with the clip-on, drop down style handlebars which look fine for a cafe bike, but not a tracker. Does anyone know of a good way to change these? Below is a pic of how they are normally.
I have seen on 1tail.com that they sell handlebar clamps (see below) the bolt through the tree clamp, however I don't know hoe safe it would be with a one bolt fixing point. Does anyone have any experience in doing these swap overs?

CBX Handlebars.jpg

1tail.com bar clamps.jpg

Cheers any help and suggestions are appreciated.

[Screamin TE]

Looks to me like you d have to swap the top triple clamp for one that has conventional handlebars. Or you could risk it and drill the existing one.

[gido260]

That would probably be the simplest and most legal way of doing it I would think. I don't suppose you know of any that would be a straight swap over?

[Screamin TE]

Youd have to measure the distance (centre to centre of the forks and go from there. If you swapped the whole stem assy over it might make matters a bit easier as well.