Hi all, Advice needed....the left handlebar grip slides right off with a little bit of pressure...needs to be re-glued, I suppose. Any suggestions as to what...
Hairspray (contains lacquer). If that doesn't work, Contact Cement (natural rubber dissolved in acetone). -Pete, in Tacoma WA USA oweninnh <oweninnh@...>...
Hey Pete, Tried the hairspray, no luck at all. Next, wiped off all the old gunk with rubbing alcohol, then with fingernail polish remover, and tried the...
Did ya manage to keep from making a mess??? That Gorilla glue is awesome stuff, but I have yet to learn to use is sparingly. EVERYTIME I use it, I put on...
... Well....no, I put on a thin coat (a really thin coat), smoothed it on the steel, slid the grip on watched the stuff start to ooze out. Kept coming, I kept...
James you may just want to strip off all the plastic and sell it that way or ride it naked. If you were not the whole way accross the country i would be...
You might want to check out the photos section here...there are two approaches to a "naked" Helix...Kyle's Mad Max and my Frankenscoot. You might get some...
I am always looking into ways to make my Helix better. It is awesome the way it is...but hey, there is ALWAYS room for improvement, right? I have read several...
Google 'motorcycle grips' everybody sell 'em. JC Whitney has some too. ~Susan in New Jersey~ "It is not for us to define others, we are here to define...
Interesting. I notice that 21 grams is very close to the stock roller weight (23 grams I think)? Is this kind of a performance difference expected with such a...
The sliders are not ROUND. Almost teardrop shaped. The shape has more to do with the difference than the weight. They dont roll the actually "rock" or "pivot"....
My dad needs a passenger backrest for his '07 Helix, and I'm trying to find him one for a present... I've been looking around online and I can't seem to find...
Just a little update. I finally got the Uni filter to work. I had to change the main jet from the stock 110 to a 112.5. That was close, but no banana...went...
Not cheap but they are the best of the best. http://www.utpr.com/helix.html The Helix on the home page is mine and that's a Utopia on there. It's also...
DO u have any pics of your setup. im thinking of doing the samething. I wonder what your new top speed is now.. good luck gil ... allows ... and ... THAT ... ...
Thanks for the link, that one looks very comfy! I was really wanting a passenger backrest tho... maybe with a rack on the back? ... mine and ... craftsmanship...
... Yeah, just don't drive your Helix through a big puddle or you might get a big splash of water on to the filter :-) ... My Helix used to do that when the...
I'm thinking that when you have a wheelbase approximately the same as that of a Greyhound bus, keeping the front wheel on the ground won't be an issue... ...
I've been using the Dr Pulley Sliders for about 5K miles now and would never go back to rollers. I don't see any diff in top speed but low end is slightly...
Cheryl, Honda sold an optional back rest for the Helix that replaces the rear grab rail but I don't know if it still available. There was one already on my 95...
I believe I have what you are looking for in my garage. I took it off when I added the rack and top box to my 1998 Helix. Need to figure out what is is worth....
I had this shortly after I bought my 93. What I did was to remove the access panel under the handlebars, remove the headlight element. Then take a heat gun (or...
Mike, I can't answer that as I only have 5K on mine. I changed from rollers to Sliders at about 2K on my '06 mainly because of the hype the slider company...
Thanks for the info...I replaced my rollers last year, so won't need to do it again for awhile, but the whole idea of the sliders seems to make sense. My...
Thanks for sharing- what grams did you get? I also saw a video once on the internet and can't seem to find it that showed a guy with a kid changing the rollers...
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