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Hello,
Harley has stopped making the holdfast luggage rack for the Fat Bob and I regret I didn't buy it last year! It is about part 50300140.
I already installed the holdfast mounting kit.
I bought some kind of replica in Ebay but it does not fit.
What do you have for luggage rack on the back? I want a detachable which works with a duo seat or else I have to buy another solo seat when travelling with a duffle.
Never really thought about 'em until I saw someone on here had installed them, and I thought about a couple of things, like
1. how I'd just installed heated grips (Kuryakyn ISO Heated Grips) and how heated grips work fine up until about 70 mph, at which point the cold wind is sucking away the heat faster than the grips can generate it, and
2. how I got soaked to the bone in 3 horrible downpours on my last trip to Arkansas, and how my summer gloves were absolutely drenched and awful.
At that point, I thought, why not put on the handguards. Might help both situations. And, frankly, I think they fit the Fat Bob's aesthetic fine, because that front tire looks halfway like a dirt tire already.
Also had to replace my mirror extenders. I'd been using some goofy shaped Chinese extenders for the last 7 years, and they look stupid but they really work to put the mirrors higher and farther out so you can really see behind you instead of just seeing your own dang shoulders. They look like this:
But, the goofy-shaped ones wouldn't work with the handguards at all. So I found some reasonable-looking cheapo Chinese mirror extenders on ebay.
These ones look a thousand times better than the old ones, and they also work with the handguards. Surprisingly, I don't think they push the mirrors quite as far out as the goofy ones did, but when it's all said and done they work fine, way better than the stock position.
Never really thought about 'em until I saw someone on here had installed them, and I thought about a couple of things, like
1. how I'd just installed heated grips (Kuryakyn ISO Heated Grips) and how heated grips work fine up until about 70 mph, at which point the cold wind is sucking away the heat faster than the grips can generate it, and
2. how I got soaked to the bone in 3 horrible downpours on my last trip to Arkansas, and how my summer gloves were absolutely drenched and awful.
At that point, I thought, why not put on the handguards. Might help both situations. And, frankly, I think they fit the Fat Bob's aesthetic fine, because that front tire looks halfway like a dirt tire already.
Also had to replace my mirror extenders. I'd been using some goofy shaped Chinese extenders for the last 7 years, and they look stupid but they really work to put the mirrors higher and farther out so you can really see behind you instead of just seeing your own dang shoulders. They look like this:
But, the goofy-shaped ones wouldn't work with the handguards at all. So I found some reasonable-looking cheapo Chinese mirror extenders on ebay.
These ones look a thousand times better than the old ones, and they also work with the handguards. Surprisingly, I don't think they push the mirrors quite as far out as the goofy ones did, but when it's all said and done they work fine, way better than the stock position.
Heated grips are kind of useless.Until they make heated grips that warm the back of our hands then no thanks.Youre better off with heated gloves.But the hand guards would be better than heated grips....look ghey though.
Heated grips are kind of useless.Until they make heated grips that warm the back of our hands then no thanks.Youre better off with heated gloves
Can't agree.
I've been using heated gloves for years and years. Heated grips do a different job, in my opinion. Heated gloves heat the back of the hands, heated grips warm up the fingers. And warm fingers are important.
Yes, my heated gloves have wires running down the back of the fingers, and they do heat up, but in actual practical usage at speed, they don't accomplish anything at all. The fingers are exposed to the wind, the heat is evaporated before it ever reaches the fingers. And heated gloves (at least the several I've used) don't do a thing for the palm, so if you're using heated gloves in 30 degree weather, the back of your hand is warm and your palm and fingers are gripping a (literally) freezing bar of rubber-wrapped metal.
In the end it's all about opinion and your own preferences as how you ride and how long and what you want to put up with. I'm an IBA member, I sometimes find myself riding for hours in really cold temps, and I find heated gloves inadequate by themselves. Heated gloves plus heated grips is a big improvement. Heated gloves plus heated grips plus handguards may equal the ultimate, we'll see. (Well, I guess if you wanted the ULTIMATE, you could add Hippo Hands, but... ugh.)
(one thing I love about heated grips is that they're always there. If I set out during the day with light gloves, and stay out too late and it starts to get cold and I didn't bring heated gear, I can always flip the switch and at least have *some* heat coming through, which I'm always grateful for).
I've been using heated gloves for years and years. Heated grips do a different job, in my opinion. Heated gloves heat the back of the hands, heated grips warm up the fingers. And warm fingers are important.
Yes, my heated gloves have wires running down the back of the fingers, and they do heat up, but in actual practical usage at speed, they don't accomplish anything at all. The fingers are exposed to the wind, the heat is evaporated before it ever reaches the fingers. And heated gloves (at least the several I've used) don't do a thing for the palm, so if you're using heated gloves in 30 degree weather, the back of your hand is warm and your palm and fingers are gripping a (literally) freezing bar of rubber-wrapped metal.
In the end it's all about opinion and your own preferences as how you ride and how long and what you want to put up with. I'm an IBA member, I sometimes find myself riding for hours in really cold temps, and I find heated gloves inadequate by themselves. Heated gloves plus heated grips is a big improvement. Heated gloves plus heated grips plus handguards may equal the ultimate, we'll see. (Well, I guess if you wanted the ULTIMATE, you could add Hippo Hands, but... ugh.)
(one thing I love about heated grips is that they're always there. If I set out during the day with light gloves, and stay out too late and it starts to get cold and I didn't bring heated gear, I can always flip the switch and at least have *some* heat coming through, which I'm always grateful for).
heated grips wont watm up the outside of the fingers on the cold/heavy wind.Thats where the hamd guards will help.But heated grips on their own in the winter aren't worth **** imo.
I see where you're coming from; I believe the heated grips are a great addition to heated gloves, and not a suitable replacement for heated gloves. In any case, I'm glad to have them both, and hoping the handguards do that extra bit to go from "tolerable" to "comfortable" in the freezing weather.
For anybody that has straight piped their factory headers, any insight on the best way to go about it? The two routes I can think of are cutting on both sides of the cat, then mounting everything up to check alignment before welding a new section of pipe back in the middle behind that cross-pipe. Otherwise, I would think you could just cut once and drill them out like on other models. This seems like some more effort overall but simpler to realign everything. Any other pointers or items to think about, maybe some other methods that I haven't thought of yet?
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