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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 08:37 PM
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i am going to do the sweepers +2 on my limited this winter. not planning on chroming it out. kinda like the black grips and controls. going to get a painted black inner fairing too.

saw a previous post with pics of black handlebars and they looked pretty good. think it would be too black? i would probably have to switch out my levers to black too. dont get me wrong, i'm not trying to black out the bike. i like some chrome.

also thinking about the black true duals with black monster ovals. they look very nice.

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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 08:49 PM
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if you have a black front end cool... if not I think chrome bars
 
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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 09:01 PM
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My bars & grips are black, & my levers & switch housings are chrome. I like the way it looks.
 
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Old Oct 19, 2010 | 09:24 PM
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I vote chrome.
 
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Once black, never back!
 
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If not going to do black out, then you need chrome to offset for the contrast
 
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black can scratch, I mounted my Zumo on my bars then wanted to change - removed the mount only to find that the mount scratched the bars, so that is where the mount will stay.. chrome will not do that
 
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Once black, never back!
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I tried the black bars this time just because I didn't want to go the whole chrome switch housing and levers again. All that chrome looks better, but staying black was a lot cheaper.



 
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Originally Posted by Texas Fat Boy
I tried the black bars this time just because I didn't want to go the whole chrome switch housing and levers again. All that chrome looks better, but staying black was a lot cheaper.



yours was the one i saw. i think it looks great. are you still glad you did it? or bored. i am painting my inner fairing and was going to do black, but if i do black bars, maybe i will do the blue on the fairing . i have the blue and black limited.

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