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Old 07-22-2011, 12:59 PM
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Saw on youtube a guy claiming he used standard harley risers and bars with the blackline top tree. He relocated the speedo housing as well. I'm just wondering if the width and holes are the same to allow standard risers to mount on the tree? I'm not a huge fan of the split bars, but I like how clean and simple the blackline is.
 
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Old 07-22-2011, 02:01 PM
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If its 3.5 inch center to center then standard risers will fit.
 
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Old 07-22-2011, 02:02 PM
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And bars
 
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Its not that simple...The Blackline trees are notched.... so a standard riser would not go in and sit stable.. You could do so if u ground the notched portion round on the trees..then u run the risk of really messing it up. Here is a picture of the notched bar..the hole in the trees are notched so these will only go one way.

 
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I saw a guy on here cut his stock bars and rsd apes an welded them . it is badass search blackline with apes .
 
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Originally Posted by bacon1
Saw on youtube a guy claiming he used standard harley risers and bars with the blackline top tree. He relocated the speedo housing as well. I'm just wondering if the width and holes are the same to allow standard risers to mount on the tree? I'm not a huge fan of the split bars, but I like how clean and simple the blackline is.
Is that the one with the yellow/gold sporty tank and z bars ? ..if not go look for it..........very slick............
 
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Oh wow. Swap out upper tree?
 
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Originally Posted by 11FXS
Its not that simple...The Blackline trees are notched.... so a standard riser would not go in and sit stable.. You could do so if u ground the notched portion round on the trees..then u run the risk of really messing it up. Here is a picture of the notched bar..the hole in the trees are notched so these will only go one way.


Have you got another link of the notched issue? By the way how are the bars on your blackline?
 
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Notched inserts that you can weld to your own bars. Thats how he did the RSDs. http://www.hardtailchoppersblog.com/...&max-results=7. Check out all his bars too.
 
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RSD put their low risers on their Blackline. Check with them.
 

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