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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 02:22 AM
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Visited my son in Oregon and we got busy on a few mods to his bike. Many thanks to you great folks here in the Sportster section for all your help with pre-install questions.

He rides a 08 1200c. We put on 16" narrow glide apes, black braided barnett cables, relocated the turn signals and added the motoscope digital speedo built into the riser top clamp along with the LED instrumentation set up. Powder coated the hand levers, headlight bezel and foot controls and added the HD black diamond grips.

Since the photos he has added the black diamond foot pegs and powder coated the risers. All in all it went very smoothly. Although the motoscope wiring was time consuming and a bit of a pita. Here a few photos. Next up is a power commander, powder coating the fork lowers, dropping the rear a bit and bobbing the fender.
 
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 02:46 AM
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That looks really good. Im thinkin of dropping the belt guards on mine.
 
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 05:03 AM
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Looks Good.
 
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 06:31 AM
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Very nice!

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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 09:45 AM
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Looks sharp!
What seat are you sporting? I like that a lot!
Keep up the good work!
 
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 11:34 AM
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Looks great. Are those bars the new Burly 16" narrowglide apes?

The seat looks like the new Lepera barebones or silhouette for 07 up models. I've got the silhouette on my 06 and its a nice seat.
 
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 12:55 PM
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That bike looks awesome!!! Do you know where he picked up that motoscope digital speedometer?
 

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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 01:05 PM
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LED guage is SICK!!!!
 
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 01:18 PM
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I think Motocsope guages etc. are distrubuted by Custom Chrome so any dealer or online source for CC could get it. I bet its pricey.
 
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Old Dec 23, 2008 | 01:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Radalack17
Looks sharp!
What seat are you sporting? I like that a lot!
Keep up the good work!


Correct in that it is the Lepera barebones for the 08 model
 
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