• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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How to accurately measure handlebars? Need assistance

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Logroller

Husqvarna
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Anyone have a video or something more specific than a flat chart like the image below on how to measure dirt bike handlebars?

I bent my Tommaselli bars (on my 2006 TE450) and am probably looking at getting a Pro Taper or Renthal bar. Tommaselli doesn't have any online info, in fact I can't even find a website for them. I tried a Husky dealer and they don't have a chart for the bars either.

I have measured using this chart below (Pro Taper), but it's not really exact where to start/end measurements, so an half inch can make a big difference is measuring from the wrong spot.

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Now what about these?

Width - looks to be a measurement of from top of bar to bar ends.
Height - Is it from the center of the clamp area (center tube diameter) to the center of the grip (center tube diameter)
Rise - Is it from the center of the clamp area (center tube diameter) to the center tube of the bend to the control area. It's difficult to figure that one out where exactly the bend point should be measured to.
Clamp - I'm not too worried about this one as I know how wide my clamps are, so I just need to make sure the bar has that much length.
Sweep - Do you lay the bars down on the ground and measure from the center of the clamp area (center tube diameter) to center (tube) of the bar end?
Control area Is this measurement from center bar end to first bend at clamp area?
 
I gave up trying to measure the misalignment after the bike went down. I use the feel of the steering and bend the ends with a long piece of gas pipe until it feels right.
 
I have the original bars that came on the bike which are Tommaselli 7/8.
These are all fudgy numbers as:
Width - 812mm
Height - 95mm
Rise - 57mm
Clamp - 190mm
Sweep - 50mm
Control Area - 215mm

Again, fussy numbers as it is difficult to figure out where exactly to measure even with using center bar measurements. And it doesn't take much to be off by a lot, especially with Sweep.
 
organ donor said:
I gave up trying to measure the misalignment after the bike went down. I use the feel of the steering and bend the ends with a long piece of gas pipe until it feels right.
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I'm not trying to measure alignment, but figure out what these bars are to buy something comparable. But yeah, I guess if you're trying to get them back in spec, it's still the same - difficult.
 
Thanks to Columbia510 for his bar offer.

The '07Te510 has the exact same bars as the '06TE450.

Check out how much I bent my bars.

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