Handlebar Mounting Rubbers

[tankstraddler]

My early Strada uses four tapered rubber bushes to hold the two handlebar clamps in the yoke, an arrangement changed on later models, I hear. Does anyone know where I can get replacements for these rubbers? NLM have Kanguro ones which are better than nothing but undersize so a poor fit in the taper. Thanks.

[pedro]

Check out www.startgomma.com They certainly have all kinds of useful Morini rubber parts, and have something that could be what you want, the quality is much better than elsewhere in my experience.
Pete

[tankstraddler]

Thanks Pedro; lots of interesting stuff here but, unfortunately, not the parts which I needed so here is what I have done instead which may be of use to others. As mentioned earlier, NLM were able to supply me with equivalent rubbers from a Kanguro which were too small: the diameter of the lipped top was just acceptable but the body was parallel, not tapered and the overall length was slightly too great. I found a washer of the correct diameter and bolted it to the bottom of the Kanguro rubber with a through bolt to give me a hard edge of the desired finished size. I had found some stuff advertised on the Internet called Sugru, a sort of plasticine which could be moulded to shape and left to cure to form solid rubber. It is adhesive and so it was a simple task to press it onto the Kanguro rubber and build it out to the diameter of the original top and the washer on the bottom and then run a Stanley knife round it pressed against the top and the washer to give the taper and a smooth edge. After curing, I used the Stanley knife again to cut the washer and a little of the attached rubber off to reduce it to the correct length; it looks good and fits perfectly. Maybe it will fail in service, who knows, but so far so good.

[Brett]

Hi,
Just thinking I have a Benelli 650s that also uses tapered rubbers to mount the handlebar mounts, they have one on top and one from beneath, possibly the same size.
Try one of these two companies who supply the parts for the Benelli, they maybe the correct size considering it was the same era.
http://www.benelliparts.de/start.php?lang=de

http://www.benelli-bauer.com/epages/150 ... 50_Tornado

Cheers

Brett