I just did the ape install on my Train. There is a ground wire that connects behind the right side of the tree to the under side of the right riser bolt. Well I put the Gooden Tight riser bushings in and they have a flush mount bolt that is not wanting to get real tight with the connection from that stupid ground wire. Can I remove it the ground wire? I'm a cop not an electrician.

 

I did on my fxstc with no problems. check all your switches after removeing it.

 

You can do anything that you like to your bike!

That said, your bike will try to find ground through the neck bearings. It'll do it but, in time, it will destroy your neck bearings.

DaFish

 

Uhhhhhhhhh!!! OK Thanks!

 

You don't need it... Leave it off!

 

I'm an electrician you'll be fine. It is a safety ground to keep you from getting a shock. Ruining neck bearings now I've heard everything!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Getting a shock from what? DC voltage? You can put your fingers across a car battery and it wouln't shock you. It's there to ground whatever needs a ground. The guy who said it would ruin your neck bearings is right. I don't want that electrician wiring anything of mine.

 

If you're concerned about taking it off just drill and tap a hole under the triple tree and use a machine type screw to hold the wire in place with an electrical ring. If you're unsure of how to do it just take the bike into a local car stereo store and ask a tech to do it for you.

 

And to the non-believers thinking 12v isn't enough to do anything try taking a wrench and laying it across the positive and negative terminals of a battery and see how fast it tries to weld itself to the posts.

Will it mess up neck bearings? I don't know for sure but I wouldn't want my bike to be the test subject.

 

Your body is a pretty good insulator. Put a bit of a load on that battery then break the wire and let the voltage run through your hand. It will be shocking I assure you. All the lighting on the front end of his bike carries a positive an a negative wire to each light therefore making that ground strap a safety wire incase of the event of a ground fault.