Highway bars
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Joined: Jul 2012
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From: Bel Air, MD
I really don't think they would look good on a softtail with a 21" front tire. I don't have too many positions to put my legs in even with extended forward controls. I was thinking of the lindybar since it is little more form fitted to the style. I have a design for leather wind fairings for long trips. Does anyone have them on a softtail standard.
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Joined: Oct 2005
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Back in the day, I would never even consider them on my 75 sporty or 84fxr. The benefit of leg protection and less damage to the bike in an accident or dropping it simply did not outwiegh the negative way it would have changed the look of those bikes "to me". Plus I was f*cking immortal 25 years ago, so that had a hell of a lot to do with it as well.
Time and miles roll on... too many years riding electra glides now and crash bars with highway pegs simply look and feel normal to me.
From a function perspective, I saw my dad crash his 05 RK on a ride we were on years ago. The front and rear crashbars saved his leg, body and the bike. I was able to get him to his feet and settled and then get the bike out of the ditch and back on the road. A few minutes to straighten out the flooboards, levers and some minor items and we were able to make the ride back. A year later, I saw a friend lose it in a turn at 45 and the bike slid and slammed into a guardrail. He walked away from that crash. We had to bend the crashbar back and fix the shifter and clutch lever, he needed to have about 2 or 3 smokes on the side of the road to chill out and get it back together again... but he rode that bike off of the mountain pass and made it another 150 miles till we rolled into Vegas that night.
I've seen them in action and hope I never need to use them or that anyone else needs to use them again for that matter, but they are defintly staying on my bike.
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