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Old May 10, 2012 | 08:52 AM
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Leaving for work this morning and thought, wonder if my large fork bag would mount on the swingarm... Bingo! I also drilled 2 ty-rap holes up front/bottom to tie around the old saddlebag/peg bolt underdeath. Rock solid. Full velcro lid holds tight.

 
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Old May 17, 2012 | 07:56 AM
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Thanks for the tip on soldering. Built the same wood clip holder. Worked great.
 
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Old May 17, 2012 | 11:26 AM
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dont have any picture of it, did it on a bike a while back. but it seems old school style is coming back more and more. how do you have the clean stripped done look on the bars with all these buttons ans switches? well you can remove 90% of them or you can take a piece of 18 guage aluminum (thin enough to cut with tin snips) trace the stock cover under you dash and cut it out. drill a hole in the bottom to run a bolt through and mount it ont he tanks. pull all you switches and button off the bars and re wire toggle switches between the tanks. for under 20 bucks you have nothing but a break and clutch on the bars with out deleting turning signals or anything. just make sure you put them in a sequence ez to remember so you dont hit the kill sawitch instead of a turn signal.

this is the pattern i ran


row 1-kill switch (togle)
row 2- horn. starter. (push button)
row 3- left turn signal. right turn signal. (toggle)
row 4-high/low beam (toggle)

as for the turn signals, i believe you can run a single 3 way switch, but we ran 2 so it went in pattern 1-2-2-1
 
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Old May 17, 2012 | 08:06 PM
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AWESOME!!




Originally Posted by dion140981
Actually ended up going with the 4 terminal relay using the hi-beam switch, works perfect and only set me back $10 for the relay and tap-in connectors
 
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Old May 17, 2012 | 08:08 PM
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Since the horn acts as an emergency warning, I don't think it a good idea moving that away from your hand. But the rest is killer.
Many years ago my Trumpet chopper had plates in the neck I drilled for a row of toggles. They were there to complete the ignition circuit and not need a key. You had to have them in an exact sequence for the bike to run. No one knew what they were there for, and I wasn't sayin'...
 

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Old May 17, 2012 | 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Quadancer
Since the horn acts as an emergency warning, I don't think it a good idea moving that away from your hand. But the rest is killer.
Many years ago my Trumpet chopper had plates in the neck I drilled for a row of toggles. They were there to complete the ignition circuit and not need a key. You had to have them in an exact sequence for the bike to run. No one knew what they were there for, and I wasn't sayin'...

i guess you could throw a push button on one side for the horn and one on the other side for a kill switch, on the old stroked shovel with straight pipes the horn wasnt audible, simple an extra chrome piece
 
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Old May 18, 2012 | 08:21 AM
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That's some funny sheet right there...I may have posted this here before, but my horn is about a third louder now I took that cowbell off of it:
 
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Old May 18, 2012 | 02:35 PM
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to be totally honest with you, i dont know if my horn even works, in 5 years i dont think ive ever pushed the button. my 87 softail has head work done and a big bore kit with custom made pipes. at last years jamboree ralley i put out 129 decibels in the loud pipes contest, so i normally wrap it up to get people attention
 
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Old May 19, 2012 | 06:22 AM
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Well, mine's not a mouse, but keep that thing off of MY street, okay?
My neighbors wave at me with ALL their fingers...
 
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Old May 19, 2012 | 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Quadancer
Since the horn acts as an emergency warning, I don't think it a good idea moving that away from your hand. But the rest is killer.
If that's the case, then the stock location for the horn button is AFU! I have owned my first Harley for about 2 months and on at least three occasions I went to sound my horn at a cager only to flash him with my left turn signal!!!
 
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