Bars - up or facing down?

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JezB

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My 3C has arrived with the centre piece connected to the small 90° but pointing upwards, thus the bars are set like normal height. Far more, as I can tell have this piece pointing downwards for a more aggressive posture. It's purely personal choice, but does anyone else have the bars set high? I'm 64, and would need a medical toilet hoist to get me off the bike if I have them that low.
 
JezB said:
My 3C has arrived with the centre piece connected to the small 90° but pointing upwards, thus the bars are set like normal height. Far more, as I can tell have this piece pointing downwards for a more aggressive posture. It's purely personal choice, but does anyone else have the bars set high? I'm 64, and would need a medical toilet hoist to get me off the bike if I have them that low.
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It’s your bike Jez, you can have them whichever way suits you 👍
 
I use the method of looking at the angle my hands fall to when reaching forward comfortably (sitting in a chair right now to demonstrate to myself). Slight downward angle about 30 deg, a rearward angle of maybe 40-45 deg. This method takes any strain out of the shoulder joint. Not Laverda bars but my clipons are mounted above top triple clamp - not interested in LOW bars. Many cliponned bikes I see on here and SFC750s look like pure torture to me. Had them on my SF when I was in my early 20s and don't miss them.
 
I could never get my Laverda bars in a comfortable angle while missing the instruments I have mounted on the frame-mounted fairing, till I completely removed that middle section and just bolted the other 2 bits together without it. With a 20mm spacer under the bar mounts it's perfect now clearing it the other bit lock to lock plus not being too low for my back.
 
It certainly looks cooler with them down. As said it is your body, and I have heard that those bars have many uncomfortable positions.
I know that the 3CL Stanco raced at the 6 hour had the bars down for the race, and later when they set them up to try it they picked up a second a lap!
Being a 3C I guess you can't mis-call them Jota bars :LOL:
 
As it was already stated here - it's all down to personal preferences. On my 3c the bars are adjusted to a more touring like position, as this suits me and my usage with tankrucksack best ...

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Obviously none of you have a mutation of 32N2A.
Makes your joints stiff and painful by the time you're 60.
Add to that a pacemaker that reacts to 180° vibrations, and you have a problem.
Paul
 
JezB said:
My 3C has arrived with the centre piece connected to the small 90° but pointing upwards, thus the bars are set like normal height. Far more, as I can tell have this piece pointing downwards for a more aggressive posture. It's purely personal choice, but does anyone else have the bars set high? I'm 64, and would need a medical toilet hoist to get me off the bike if I have them that low.
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My late MK11 180 has hydraulic clutch actuation, which reduces my ability to move and adjust my bars, because of clearance and routing of the hydraulic line. The centre portion is spun to “2 o’clock” away from me, but I’ve managed to adjust the bars to a position which allows my wrists a straight line grab for the hands, with no rolling of the wrists, something to be avoided. On occasions I choose to run my late option Futura fairing I need to adjust the bars slightly more aggressive for clearance reasons.
 
I fell off my 1981 Jota/3CL on day 3 from new doing a turn.
I discovered that the brake lever hit the snow plough fairing.
Paul
 
Steve G. said:
Not a good idea to ride motorcycles in the snow.
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Riding bikes in or on snow is not a problem. The problem as always is cars.
One of the highlights of my motorcycling career was riding to work one morning on packed snow. I had about 15 km to do on a road with icy packed snow. There were traffic lights and a set went red. So, I braked and stopped. The car behind me didn't or rather couldn't. It didn't hit me luckily but span out of control, all 4 wheels locked and stopped across two lanes sideways.
Paul
 
It was always fun to watch people drive out of our local ski resorts if it Snowed, the perplexed look as they slid sideways doing 10kph with their speedo saying 60kph. Their fix was always more power.
 
So I have adjustable Laverda bars on my 78 Jota set up in a sporting mode and a low-rise superbike handlebar on my 78 Jota America.
The adjustable bar as set is more comfortable for touring, with no weight on the wrists and no fighting the wind. The superbike bar on the 1200 Jota America definitely is a parking lot user-friendly along with providing leverage when the going gets hot in the twisties.
When doing miles and miles of twisty mountain roads the superbike bar is my preferred and I never thought I would say that, but each to their own.
 

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