... and they happened to be sitting right in my triple clamps.

I'd spent way too much time searching for a decent set of black bars for my Superduke R which had a bend similar to the stock handlebars. It only took about an hour to mask & paint the stock bars (add another hour for disassembly and re-assembly time -- which I'd have had to do with a third party set of bars as well). Found a nice satin black spray paint at the local CycleGear shop and am completely happy with the result. I masked the center area (what is clamped and what is between the clamps) and the bar ends, leaving these silver. No real reason why. I guess I liked the KTM logo and the adjuster marks. Plus the SD-R's unified bar clamp top piece seemed a little more defined by leaving the center of the bars silver.

Couldn't figure out how to post photos here on the site so here's a link to a web page. You can download 6 megapixel versions of these photos from this web site.

http://gallery.me.com/erick#100111

Not too shabby, huh?

They look sweet.
Fairly new to this forum but everywhere i turn someone is doing something awesome to his SD. Inspiring folks... truly inspiring.

I've mentioned DIY numerous times to guys looking to change up to black bars. I'm glad you admit you are no pro, and still got really great results. Awesome.

satin black is the best. I use Spray-on satin black. It always works, perfectly, no problem. And it's quite tough too. PJ1 should be good, their stuff seems to be popular.

Did they do away with the rubber mounts on the R ? That one-piece top clamp is much better. - Than the flimsy joined lower clamp.

I was wondering if satin black would stick to the shrouds.