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Old Sep 12, 2008 | 07:44 PM
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Question Tall sissy bar & pad

Just got the tall removable bar and pad. It fits fine, but looks too upright to be very comfortable. She's under the weather and hasn't tried it yet, but my observation is she won't like it. Any thoughts?
 
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Old Sep 12, 2008 | 10:24 PM
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I have the tall sissy bar on my RKC and agree that they made the angle too upright. My wife finds it OK, but you give up the back part of the seat because it pushes you forward. I feel her inching onto my rider seat which isn't a problem, but again I think they should have angled it back more. Nothing much you can do as the mounts have no angle adjustment. I asked the same question myself a while back and at least one responded they had heated the side bars and bent them, but the chrome may crack.


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Just got the tall removable bar and pad. It fits fine, but looks too upright to be very comfortable. She's under the weather and hasn't tried it yet, but my observation is she won't like it. Any thoughts?
 
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Old Sep 13, 2008 | 09:58 AM
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I swapped my medium height bar for a tall bar and bought a different, larger backrest pad. No complaints form the wife, I guess it was such an improvement over the med bar w/comfort stitch pad so she likes this set up a lot better.
 
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