engine guards
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RE: engine guards
The way your bike is set up you can do engine guard pegs without a problem. If the engine guard and pegs were the only accessories, the pegs would become the focal point. But you have a pseudo touring set up now. The engine guard and pegs would complete the theme. It would blend in fine.
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Does anyone have an engine guard with foot pegs?? I have an 03 XL883C and am thinking of getting one, but I'm curious to know how it looks on the Sportster's narrow frame. Any pics would be great!
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Does anyone have an engine guard with foot pegs?? I have an 03 XL883C and am thinking of getting one, but I'm curious to know how it looks on the Sportster's narrow frame. Any pics would be great!
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Thank you to everyone who answered. I think I am going to get them. Those Linby's are nice looking. Probably go with the HD model though. I have a Leatherworks trunk bag that is actually on the bike now due to 5 night trip to San Diego and back. I will probably leave it on and have it be my touring bike for the summer! Thanks again!
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I put footback which fold up on my engine guard (they are HD - adjustable)- that way, when I'm not using them, you hardly notice them and they don't stick out, when I'm riding on the highway and want them, I kick them down and ride.
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RE: engine guards
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I think I am going to get them.
I think I am going to get them.
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Good call on the passenger footpegs! My son rides with meonce in a while so I"ll leave mine intact, but that is a good idea. I've got my eye on the skull footpegs since that is what I have on my controls. The only thing that I'm wondering about as far as that goes is whether or not it will look bad when they are folded up. The reason for that is that I will want them to on an angle so that my foot will rest on the face of the peg, and on an angle, when they fold up, they would not run with the bar of the engine guard.
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I don't know how many of you will relate to this, but as a tall guy (6'3") with long legs, after about 200 miles the forward controls on my bike, although plentiful, just are'nt enough and I end up putting my feet over the footpegs and letting the ankle part of my boots rest on the edge of the footpegs so I can shift some of the weight to a different part of my cheeks. Works fine, ran all the way to Oregon and back (almost 1400 miles) like that. But as I'm riding, I'm thinking about how bad it would be to catch anything on my foot or feet as I'm buzzing down the I-5, it would surely snap my ankle like a twig. Hence the research into getting an engine guard with some highway pegs. I wonder if anyone has does anything other than engine guard/highway pegs to accomodate long legs??
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Like I said, I stretch/hang my legs over my Linbar and use it like the foot rest of a recliner. I call it my 'easy chair position,' and if I had any pics of me riding it like that, I would post them, but I don't. I guess I'll have to get a friend to take one sometime when I'm running 70 down a highway or something like that.
The Linbars are lower and straight acrosson the top, making it easier to ride like that.
My feet are well out of the way of catching anything, they being up that high, so there's nothing to fear from that aspect.
My personal opinion is that the Linbar not only looks the best on a Sportster, but most importantly it provides the most usefullness. 'Not knocking the others, but it's just that the Linbar is built smaller and to fit the Sportster (the Sportster model of the Linbar) and not look out of proportion like the other bars that usually are made for the larger bikes.
I'll try posting another pic of it from a driver's eye position, so you can see the rest it gives an operator's legs and feet.
Go with whatever is right for you, though.
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The Linbars are lower and straight acrosson the top, making it easier to ride like that.
My feet are well out of the way of catching anything, they being up that high, so there's nothing to fear from that aspect.
My personal opinion is that the Linbar not only looks the best on a Sportster, but most importantly it provides the most usefullness. 'Not knocking the others, but it's just that the Linbar is built smaller and to fit the Sportster (the Sportster model of the Linbar) and not look out of proportion like the other bars that usually are made for the larger bikes.
I'll try posting another pic of it from a driver's eye position, so you can see the rest it gives an operator's legs and feet.
Go with whatever is right for you, though.
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By the way, here are the Lindbyclamp-on footpegs that you can put on a Lindbar as well, thus causing it to have two different locations of foot rests on it, something you won't see on the HD bar.
http://www.lindbycustom.com/shopCart...mp;Category=24
I haven't got these yet for mine, but I'm planning on it so I'll have evenmore ways to adjust my leg andfeet positions on long rides. I have a spine problem, and because of that I can get some nasty leg and feet cramps from time to time while riding.
I know I may seem to be coming across as a Linbar salesman, but it's just that I know it's the best bar there is for comfort, style and usefullness for a Sportsterthat I have ever seen.
http://www.lindbycustom.com/shopCart...mp;Category=24
I haven't got these yet for mine, but I'm planning on it so I'll have evenmore ways to adjust my leg andfeet positions on long rides. I have a spine problem, and because of that I can get some nasty leg and feet cramps from time to time while riding.
I know I may seem to be coming across as a Linbar salesman, but it's just that I know it's the best bar there is for comfort, style and usefullness for a Sportsterthat I have ever seen.
