Gimp Apes
I gotta jump in and offer some negatives...
I ordered a set of 16" black Gimps from Nash on 12/30/07. I didn't get them 'til 2/29/08. If you're not good at math, that's 2 months or 60 days I had to wait. AND I'm still waiting for my t-shirt.
Another thing, the powdercoating on the bars isn't that great. It's super thin and comes off very easily. If you want a set of black bars from them, get the raw bars and bring them to your own powdercoater. It'll end up costing you a little more, but it's better than f'd up bars...like mine.
Besides those negatives, the bars look killer and feel pretty comfortable. I haven't taken them on the road yet so not 100% sure on that...but soon! I already had 16" apes so it's not going to be that much different.
Running the wiring through them can be a pain because of the extreme bend, but fish through some thin solid line first and then attach it to your wiring very well and just yank! I used super strong fishing line with a little ball weight on it to fish it through the bars.
Good luck!
I ordered a set of 16" black Gimps from Nash on 12/30/07. I didn't get them 'til 2/29/08. If you're not good at math, that's 2 months or 60 days I had to wait. AND I'm still waiting for my t-shirt.
Another thing, the powdercoating on the bars isn't that great. It's super thin and comes off very easily. If you want a set of black bars from them, get the raw bars and bring them to your own powdercoater. It'll end up costing you a little more, but it's better than f'd up bars...like mine.
Besides those negatives, the bars look killer and feel pretty comfortable. I haven't taken them on the road yet so not 100% sure on that...but soon! I already had 16" apes so it's not going to be that much different.
Running the wiring through them can be a pain because of the extreme bend, but fish through some thin solid line first and then attach it to your wiring very well and just yank! I used super strong fishing line with a little ball weight on it to fish it through the bars.
Good luck!
I had a similar problem with their service at Nash. I was like 6 weeks before I got mine. They told me that they were at a big bike event ( Daytona, Sturgis or similar ) and that slowed production and that the powdercoater that they use takes a while as well. I must say otherwise that I am more than happy so far with the quality of their product. I also ran the wires through the bars and found it hard at first to get through the 90 degree bend at the bottom. To remedy this i wraped the wires in electrical tape, offset the wires ( so they would be narrow ) tied a string to them, with a nut tied to one end and used baby powder as a lubricant, rather than a wet lube ( which never goes away and may damage the powdercoat ) and this made it much easier. I was then able to blow the powder out with shop-air. In addition I used the 12in apes and didn't have to extend or cut the wires at all.
Well whatever you do don't order them from Tejasthumpcycles.com. I did and waited and waited and waited and called and waited then after bitching them out for a week and playing email tag I suddenly got my gimps in the mail from none other than NASH !!! F&ckers charged me forty or fifty more than Nash and all they did was order them from them. But in my defense I didn't know about Nash when I ordered.. Now I know
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