Ape Hangers on a Deuce
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Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Fort Worth, TX
Not sure if I missed it, but what size cables did you use when you installed the apes? I am strongly considering installing 14" chubby apes. Your bike looks great with them.
Road Master
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Batavia, NY
depends where you wanna be. I have 14" apes on mine and I'm 5' 11", at ride position my hands are an inch or so above my shoulders. If you're only 5' 6", 16"s would have you reaching to the sky. Here are a few of my 07, 14" Wild1 Chubby's. Couldn't tell you exact cable length, I didn't measure, they came with the bars off another softail and fit perfectly.
Road Master
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Batavia, NY
Thanks! I relocated my front turns right after I bought the bike last year, I hated the way they looked on the bars. I like having them down on the forks by the headlight, looks a lot cleaner in my opinion. Plus this way, I don't have to run even more internal wiring through the bars. I did the wiring extensions myself, staggered the splices, and even with 1.5" chubby's, it was still kind of tight feeding the wires through the bars. Adding 3 more wires per side would have been a huge pain in the ***.
Novice
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Fort Worth, TX
Thanks! I relocated my front turns right after I bought the bike last year, I hated the way they looked on the bars. I like having them down on the forks by the headlight, looks a lot cleaner in my opinion. Plus this way, I don't have to run even more internal wiring through the bars. I did the wiring extensions myself, staggered the splices, and even with 1.5" chubby's, it was still kind of tight feeding the wires through the bars. Adding 3 more wires per side would have been a huge pain in the ***.
Road Master
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Batavia, NY
I bought a kit off ebay, the wires were already color coded to factory wiring, 30 inches total length, and came with shrink tubing. I think I ended up extending my wiring 12 inches per side. the kit was under 25 bucks, if I recall. if you do your own, you will not have room to use traditional crimp butt connectors with the plastic coating. get crimp or solder butt connectors with the shrink tubing coating already on them. im at work now on my phone, but if need be I can be more specific and post pics or a link later when I get home.
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Joined: May 2010
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From: Massachusetts
Am I the only that's thinks ape's just don't look right on a deuce? Just breaks up the flow of the bike to much if you ask me.
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Road Master
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From: Batavia, NY
to each their own, that's the beauty of the bike being yours. I think fishtail exhaust and whitewalls look like *** on any bike, but people don't put them on their bikes to impress me, they do it because its what they like.
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Joined: Jan 2010
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From: auckland,new zealand
no i agree, i dont no if its the slim tank or what, but dont think they look right,i think 12" may look ok as they suit the rocker, but the rocker has wide *** and different fender