I race with EE bark busters and cycra hand shirds on them. I was using the stock CLutch lever, it was not cut down at all, And now i am running a works connection AOF clutch perch and lever, it is also not cut down. I run my bark busters straight out, not in front of the levers, there there to protect ur hands from tress...lever are cheap you'r hands are not. I dont know where you'r hand guards are, but try moving them around and the clutch lever to make them work, i know that they can.