To each their own.. I see guys with 16" apes, guys with 19" z-bars on baggers, etc. Lots of stuff looks just idiotic to me.. but so long as they're happy...

 

To me, they're drag bars with built on, tall risers. They're no taller than some ape hangers. They just have something in the middle, where ape hangers don't.

 

I guess you don't get out much.

 

U don't understand them because u have never ridden with them... Give em a try and you'll understand

 

+1 Well said.

 

It's a style/fad thing. If you watch SOA then you copy them. Watch the forum change when SOA brings back chrome and leather fringe.

 

Exactly!! Fad!............ I repeat.............go back 10 years ago and show me ONE bike with risers that high! You won't find them because that wasn't the "fad" then! 10 years from now it'll be something else. 15 years ago, baggers were for old men............now everybody is customizing them. Those look really dumb, too. Kinda like hot rodding your dad's station wagon. Give it another few years and those'll be out of style. Ridiculous.

Like I said, I've been riding motorcycles since 1965, Been involved in motorcycles since I was 7 years old (uncle raced flat track) and there WEREN'T bars like that until just recently. Ape hangers, yea, they've been around forever, but not those weird looking things.

Anyway, I'm not going to tell you what to do with your bike. If you like them, that's fine. I just can't believe someone actually thinks they LOOK GOOD. That was my main question, not how comfortable they are, which I'm not buying either, BTW. As far as "control", well, like I said I've been involved in motorcycle racing for well over 50 years, and I haven't seen ANY race bikes, where CONTROL is of the utmost importance, with bars like that!! Wonder why? LOL

 

Matter of opinion..i have apes, my brother has the T bars...I don't like his bike, he doesnt like mine...I ride mine, he doesn't.same for him, he rides his, I don't..plain and simple

 

Seen this coming a mile away.Kinda like "fast and furious"

 

For someone riding since 1965 it's pretty obvious you don't really get out and ride much, and don't go to many places where there are other bikers. This whole thread wasn't a question but a way for you to mock something you don't like out the side of your mouth. Some of us like different things, and lots of us don't decide what we do to our bikes based on what you think is a fad. Saying as such shows that maybe you feel that's the type of mindset you have. You just like your bike stock...that's cool. Some of us don't care what anyone thinks and make it out own. We don't worry about fads and shows or what some tool on a forum thinks.

I'm sure you think a stock looking bike with buckthorns is where it's at. That's what looks good to you... Am I right? Get on with your bad *** self... Lol.

Btw.. No joke.. I really think its kinda sad that for someone riding as long as you have to really need to ask a question like this. It's like asking why people like ape hangers. You can just say you don't like em.. But you should understand. Especially if you do actually ride.