A very big thank you for taking the time to do such an in depth write up on this procedure. Your narative and photos are superb and have provided much insight into this job of changing bars. Hopefully this will encourage more folks to jump into themselves. Very well done.l
I did my own WO577 bars a few weeks ago. Was changing to a painted inner fairing as well so I had to take it all off so to speak. anyway, for those that are not skilled at soldering or don't wish to take the time to splice and solder each stinkin wire. (I think there was about 16 wires on each side) you can buy the NAMZ kit to extend the wires. All are color coded like the factory ones. Saves a poopload of time and mess. They simply plug into the stock wires and you slip a chunk of supplied heatshrink over the joint.