Rocker Handlebar Question
Road Warrior
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8 inch rise on my 1.5's .......> https://www.hdforums.com/forum/membe...bums-bars.html they just miss the speedo by a bees dick...
Dan
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8 inch rise on my 1.5's .......> https://www.hdforums.com/forum/membe...bums-bars.html they just miss the speedo by a bees dick...
Dan
Dan
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I just fitted Wild One Chubby Drag Bars W500 with 6" risers. The bars are awesome, they LOOK great BUT they are about 2.8" further forward and about 2.2" lower to the ground than the stock bars when measured at the grip ends.
I am leaning forward too far for my personal comfort so will be looking at the 8" riser ones that have another 1" in pullback too. This is a VERY difficult science to master BEFORE fitting and riding. Wild One have a good chart of measurements of stock bars on stock bikes and of their Chubby bars too. Worth a look at least. The Carlini Bars are excellent too.
Chubby Bar dimensions: http://www.wild1inc.com/chubbydimensions.html
Stock HD bar dimensions: http://wild1inc.com/DIMENSIONS.pdf
There is also a virtual bar fit screen that may even help for other models too:
http://www.wild1inc.com/virtual_demo.html
If you look side-on at most stock bikes with the front wheel dead straight and imagine a plumb line dropped from the tip of the grip, it falls down a line that is pretty damn close to dead center of the air filter. Incidentally, the regular HD Indicator Re-Location Kit # 69433-08 looks pretty OK too.
Hope this helps a bit.
I am leaning forward too far for my personal comfort so will be looking at the 8" riser ones that have another 1" in pullback too. This is a VERY difficult science to master BEFORE fitting and riding. Wild One have a good chart of measurements of stock bars on stock bikes and of their Chubby bars too. Worth a look at least. The Carlini Bars are excellent too.
Chubby Bar dimensions: http://www.wild1inc.com/chubbydimensions.html
Stock HD bar dimensions: http://wild1inc.com/DIMENSIONS.pdf
There is also a virtual bar fit screen that may even help for other models too:
http://www.wild1inc.com/virtual_demo.html
If you look side-on at most stock bikes with the front wheel dead straight and imagine a plumb line dropped from the tip of the grip, it falls down a line that is pretty damn close to dead center of the air filter. Incidentally, the regular HD Indicator Re-Location Kit # 69433-08 looks pretty OK too.
Hope this helps a bit.
Last edited by kiteman; Apr 8, 2009 at 11:25 AM.
Road Warrior
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From: Oz
... happy to try to get ya 1 tho...
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what im saying is ill trade you your seat for some chrome LOL
yeah mon see what you can come up with out of all the seats
i like yours the best since im all the way in chicago it will still
be like yours is the only one lol seriously see what you could do.
yeah mon see what you can come up with out of all the seats
i like yours the best since im all the way in chicago it will still
be like yours is the only one lol seriously see what you could do.
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