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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 12:35 AM
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Alright here is the deal. The headlight visor on our bikes is pretty weird. Lets see some pics of altered headlight mounts. Obviously you need to have your speedo relocated first or you are not going to have much room. I know you can pretty much DYI you own mounts, but lets see some differnt headlight options.
 
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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 07:25 AM
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Mount.


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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 08:12 AM
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Holy crap, that thing is ginormous!
 
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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 08:22 AM
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Can you see me now?!
 
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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 09:31 AM
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I'm interested is seeing some lights mounted to the triple tree. A bullet style if anyone wants to post them and where they got the light.
 
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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 09:39 AM
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This is what I did:

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/sport...ld-school.html
 
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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by NightsterAl
Mount.


Light.
Thats awesome. I am assuming you just fabbed the metal brackets up?
Also what kind of headlight is that? I dont really know what headlight are compatable.
nice work and thanks for the pics.
 
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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 12:01 PM
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Yessir...
The bracket was super easy to fab up. Just made a couple bends. The light came with a bracket to mount to the lower tree, but I was a bit worried about making the lower tree weak and I wanted to do something different than everyone else. I'm putting my apes on this weekend, so we'll see how it looks with those. If the lines dont flow, I'll just drill the triple tree and mount it lower. Thanks for the compliment and I'll post some pics once I get my Burly 14"'s on.

Oh yeah, I got the light on ebay. Just follow the link.
 
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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 05:13 PM
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Home brew mount.
 
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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 06:16 PM
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Sweet motor drum. You just flipped the stock light. Looks smooth. I like your route too.
Looks pretty simple.

thanks for the link AL. Did you fab up your own mounts on the light too? I am also assuming the cable for the headlight has the same plug as the stock light.

Man these are 2 really good options. Thanks guys!
 
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