Road King Ape Handlebar Help
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Joined: Dec 2013
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From: Perth, Western Australia
I have got the new '16 Heritage apes on order. They are part#55800396 come notched for TBW (new for the heritage this year) so they'll go straight on my road king. They are 11" high, have a great turn down angle at the grips. Sat on a '16 Heritage at the dealer and the grip angle is way better than the "Heritage style" bars that came with my '16 Road King.
If you do a search for 56569-09 you can see heaps of photos in the forum of how they look on various bikes. Quite a few have put them on their road kings before, but had to notch them themselves. This part number ('09-'15 Heritage) is the same bar, same dimensions but didn't come ready for TBW. Or just do image searches for heritages of those years.
According to the '12 Parts catalogue the dims for the 56569-09 (and by assumption, the 55800396) are 1" thick 32.50 W 7.00 Pullback 10.00 Rise 11.50 centre
The only drawback to these '16 bars are they are 1 inch - but the upside is they are only $100.
Here's the ones I tried at the dealer
If you do a search for 56569-09 you can see heaps of photos in the forum of how they look on various bikes. Quite a few have put them on their road kings before, but had to notch them themselves. This part number ('09-'15 Heritage) is the same bar, same dimensions but didn't come ready for TBW. Or just do image searches for heritages of those years.
According to the '12 Parts catalogue the dims for the 56569-09 (and by assumption, the 55800396) are 1" thick 32.50 W 7.00 Pullback 10.00 Rise 11.50 centre
The only drawback to these '16 bars are they are 1 inch - but the upside is they are only $100.
Here's the ones I tried at the dealer
Cruiser
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 138
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From: NY
The khrome works do indeed angle down a bit. That's the reason I got them. They are very close to the Harley heritage classic bars but 2" taller. Not the heritage style bars that come stock on the Rushmore roadkings . Those bars actually rose up at the ends and put my wrists at an uncomfortable angle. All manufacturers measure their bars differently so it's hard to tell by comparing published specs. I think Harley says the heritage classic bars are 13" but the khrome werks bars listed at 12" are 2" taller. Good luck hopefully you'll get it right first time . Took me two tries but at least the first set of bars were only $80.
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