Weightwatcher

Harris clip-on handle bars

Used for: two years Price: £115 Info: harris-performance.com

» My attempts at lightening my 18-year-old Honda VTR1000 SP2 have included Dymag wheels (£2500), Shorai lithium battery (£200) and Arrow cans fitted years back (maybe £800). Honda’s steel handlebars, with heavy endweights, come in at around half-a-kilo each side and are not adjustable. I wanted a marginally wider set-up for better leverage and so turned to Harris’s aluminium racing clip-ons. Fairing clearance limits how much further forward you can adjust them, but they’re beefy (not true of all aftermarket clip-ons) and weigh half that of the standard ‘bars. Much of that saving comes from ditching the end weights. This has made no difference to any vee-twin vibration felt through the hands. And the result of all this weight reduction? A bike that was a noughties-era porkster sports bike that is now spritely on its heels. Result!