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any tips for getting the fecking end bars off? got the right size alan key but them babies just spin. tried to grip them and hit it with a hammer but no joy??????X!!!!!!!

Hi all,

Try a pair of pump pliers with tape wrapped round or the plastic clipon covers and quickly crack the alley key not to hard though

Failing that take the "Pierre Action," and angle-grind em off! No offence pierre, I know you are skilled with all tools....

d rider bought the correct tool from aldi, but those of us who are even cheaper.... take a can of coke and open it up so you end up with flat tin

wrap that around the bar end weight - and hold tight with molegrips, stillsons or pipe wrench - then while holding it use the allan key

Aladinsaneuk wrote:d rider bought the correct tool from aldi,

Yep - a strap wrench

You don't have to buy them from Aldi ..... but they were cheap

An adjustible oil filter wrench (1"to whatever) will do it

You'll never guess what I used to get mine off

Nooj wrote:You'll never guess what I used to get mine off

Gotta be a hacksaw or angle grinder

Yep, one point to Gio, it was a hacksaw

Nooj wrote:Yep, one point to Gio, it was a hacksaw

I had to do the same thing to my Pan Euro, but then it was 153years old and had been kept outside in all weathers without a bike cover.

I just got pissed off cos they wouldn't come out.

Nooj wrote:I just got pissed off cos they wouldn't come out.

Neither would mine

They come off really easy if you use a strap wrench.

Yep. I'll second the strap wrench. Works a treat.

PE4 separates Motorcycle parts quite amicably.

Kwackerz wrote:PE4 separates Motorcycle parts quite amicably.

Tends to separate body parts too tho?