Im looking to buy some new handle bars for my YFZ450. I saw the new flex bars and they looked pretty good. I would like to know the goods and bads of these bars. Are they worth the money?

 

They are worth the money if you ride hard on rough tracks or trails. They absorb a ton of shock and they are much stronger than regular bars, I don't know anyone that owns them and doesn't love them.

 

They are one of the best improvements you can make to your YFZ if you race in choppy, rough, rocky ground. They help out on ATVs even more than they do on bikes, because the solid rear axle ATVs like the YFZ have a lot more side to side violent rocking action over the rough stuff than bikes do. The Flexx bars essentially eliminate this side to side rocking movement in the handlebars, so there is a lot less wear and tear on the upper body. It is pretty amazing the first time you pin the throttle through the rough stuff, and you can feel the ATV violently pitching back and forth underneath you, but your arms stay flat and smooth.

They are tough as well. I went down hard in the rocks on my last desert race on the bike. It was a high speed get off that knocked me unconscious long enough for other racers to have time to stop and help, and I must have landed on a big rock myself because I ended up with a huge hematoma in my left hip that had to be surgically drained after the race. I could see that the handlebars had taken a major hit, because, the clutch lever had been spun around backwards, the hydraulic clutch reservoir was broken, the left hand grip was torn so badly it needed replaced, and the kill switch button had been torn clear off. The handlebars are as good as the day they were installed though.

Fantastic handlebars, well worth the money.

 

They work great. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

You want to know the good and bad, That is easy !!there is no bad, I would have payed three times the amount for them.

 

This is good to hear. I was thinking of getting some to go with the ltr450 i'm planning on getting soon.