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Old Feb 5, 2010 | 02:13 AM
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Throttle cables are too long I think. I still have to mess with them and see if I can make them work but I might have to lose a couple inches. What do you think.

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Old Feb 5, 2010 | 05:35 AM
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Bars look FABULOUS, hard to tell from photos about cable length. But looks fine from what i can see!
 
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Old Feb 5, 2010 | 05:38 AM
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Killer. Like those Bars!
 
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Old Feb 5, 2010 | 06:17 AM
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might be able to reroute them. now you need a black front end to match the rest. wonder if they make black chrome forks. any way looks good.
 
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Old Feb 5, 2010 | 06:22 AM
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Great looking bars. Cables look ok from here. What bars did you go with ?
 
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Old Feb 5, 2010 | 06:58 AM
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Lookin good man! Those cables are not too long . . . . . MINE are too long . . . . . lets just say . . . . . . I re-routed them. Get you somethin to hold them in towards the bars and your in business.
 
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Old Feb 5, 2010 | 07:15 AM
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Bars look great, cables are fine, but I would just reroute the idle and throttle cable. Route them so that they come out from the frame and when they are installed lay in front on the handlebar instead of in back. That way when your rocking down the highway on that beast the cables are pushing against the front of your apes and not flopping around in the wind. I had the same issue with mine and that too care of it.
 
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Yeah as said before try re-routing....you can pushthem forward a bit....but form the pics it's hard to tell they look good though.
 
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Great looking bars. Cables look ok from here. What bars did you go with ?
Sorry, I didn't give much info. The are Hill Country Customs 14". Very happy with HCC. Powdercoating had a couple inperfections, but I am really picky. I still have to throw the brake line on their and bleed the brakes.

For anyone thinking of doing it themselves for the first time, do it. It is a frustrating damn project but well worth it.
 
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Very nicely done ! bars lookin great!
 
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