Mine have been crooked from day one. I can straighten it if I turn to the opposite lock and twist. Like the others have said it is the risers. Im just to lazy to take all of the tin off to fix it right.

 

Most Harleys with stock rubber bushings in the risers suffer from this. You can put the tire against a curb and push them back straight, but they won't stay. Poly riser bushings are the only true fix...or just ride the bike and don't worry about it.

 

You can be out of line with the poly's too. Mine were straght with the factory rubber bushings and when I switched to polys I was out of line. You have to just mess with them until you get them where you want them. t's not too bad with drag bars, but we did my boy 16" apes and you can really see there not true.

 

The bars on my NT were out of alignment when I got it. I had the dealer put on braided cables, new risers and the poly bushings and figured they would be straight when I got it back. They weren't, but it's as simple as hspring03 said. I just loosened the risers and aligned them.

 

I thinks he's talikng about the riser bolts that come from the bottom and screw into the riser. They are 1/2"x13 bolts about 2 3/4" long? You can loosen them and adjust the bars. There's more play in them than you might think.

 

Handlebar alignment can become an issue when the handlebar clamp hasn't been torqued properly. Try loosening the bolts on the clamp and then re-torque starting with the two bottom bolts and then the two top bolts. Followed the procedures in my maintenance manual and fixed the issue for me when I swapped bars and risers.

 

Its a known softail issue, poly bushes makes it better but you get more vibration when riding, you can fix it by loosening you risers and straightening, but it will go go back eventually, I've had 2 different places do mine and the second place got it straighter than the first, but it has drifted back a little, you have to live with it, do a search it been discussed many times here.

 

Thankfully neither of my Softails suffered from the "known issue".

 

I recently noticed that my bars were not exactly aligned as well. I also thought that my bike had been dropped but remembered that I had pushed (with difficulty) my bike up into a trailer when I had a dead battery and I must have misaligned the stock risers with unequal pressure. I pushed them back with a bit of force.

 

Just something that they do, easy to align as stated above. Go look in a dealers lot and you will see a bunch like that.