10" Paul Yaffe Bagger Bars w/ stock cables
Road Master
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 1,091
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From: new jersey
electrical will fit.. don't really need to re route on the clutch side..for the brake side i cut off a little of the wire loom from the stock main harness..pulled the end of the controll wires around the main fairing bracket and back toward the center of the radio...then i ran the wires down the side of the radio and connected to the wires from the bars...
as for the wires going through the bars...hardest thing i ever tried.. i ended up loosing my patience and taking them to the dealer to have wires pulled....payed through the nose...BUT i did all the other work myself (did bars and painted fairing at the same time) IF you are on the fence about doing the wires yourself i would suggest looking into having Yaffe do them for you..i heard from a guy here on the forum that he sent his controlls and bars to Yaffe and they pulled the wires for like $100... i don't know for sure but WORTH looking into..
oh.. i also went +4 on clutch and brake.. did some nice Magnum black.. cuz i didn't want to "stretch it" and i also wanted to complete the look..like you said you spent a good chunk on the bars....
as for the wires going through the bars...hardest thing i ever tried.. i ended up loosing my patience and taking them to the dealer to have wires pulled....payed through the nose...BUT i did all the other work myself (did bars and painted fairing at the same time) IF you are on the fence about doing the wires yourself i would suggest looking into having Yaffe do them for you..i heard from a guy here on the forum that he sent his controlls and bars to Yaffe and they pulled the wires for like $100... i don't know for sure but WORTH looking into..
oh.. i also went +4 on clutch and brake.. did some nice Magnum black.. cuz i didn't want to "stretch it" and i also wanted to complete the look..like you said you spent a good chunk on the bars....
Tourer
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 373
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From: PA
I am getting this done Monday. I got a longer clutch after reading everything here.. I want it to go through my fairing hole and not around, and I have an 08 with ABS and since nobody ever seems to have done this to an 08 with abs, and it IS different then 09 and later, I warned them and I might get a longer upper brake line if needed. And since its being done at an Indy I have to probably go to an HD shop and have them reset the ABS if it triggers a code.
They asked me if extra wiring would be needed and I told em no, but I'll let em know some reroute might be involved. Of course I am not doing the MBB I am doing the classic apes and just running the electrical outside the bars just like they are now... at 10 inches it won't be real noticeable, and these are only 1 inch and will just be more difficult and a cost added I probably don't need to worry about. If I was doing the MBB I would go internal being 1.25 and all. I still might talk to them about it and get opinions.. but I never ran anything thru the 10s I had on my last bike and there was no fairing to block the bars so they hung out there and they didn't look bad. The braided brake line helped.
They asked me if extra wiring would be needed and I told em no, but I'll let em know some reroute might be involved. Of course I am not doing the MBB I am doing the classic apes and just running the electrical outside the bars just like they are now... at 10 inches it won't be real noticeable, and these are only 1 inch and will just be more difficult and a cost added I probably don't need to worry about. If I was doing the MBB I would go internal being 1.25 and all. I still might talk to them about it and get opinions.. but I never ran anything thru the 10s I had on my last bike and there was no fairing to block the bars so they hung out there and they didn't look bad. The braided brake line helped.
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Tourer
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 464
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From: Indiana
I am getting this done Monday. I got a longer clutch after reading everything here.. I want it to go through my fairing hole and not around, and I have an 08 with ABS and since nobody ever seems to have done this to an 08 with abs, and it IS different then 09 and later, I warned them and I might get a longer upper brake line if needed. And since its being done at an Indy I have to probably go to an HD shop and have them reset the ABS if it triggers a code.
They asked me if extra wiring would be needed and I told em no, but I'll let em know some reroute might be involved. Of course I am not doing the MBB I am doing the classic apes and just running the electrical outside the bars just like they are now... at 10 inches it won't be real noticeable, and these are only 1 inch and will just be more difficult and a cost added I probably don't need to worry about. If I was doing the MBB I would go internal being 1.25 and all. I still might talk to them about it and get opinions.. but I never ran anything thru the 10s I had on my last bike and there was no fairing to block the bars so they hung out there and they didn't look bad. The braided brake line helped.
They asked me if extra wiring would be needed and I told em no, but I'll let em know some reroute might be involved. Of course I am not doing the MBB I am doing the classic apes and just running the electrical outside the bars just like they are now... at 10 inches it won't be real noticeable, and these are only 1 inch and will just be more difficult and a cost added I probably don't need to worry about. If I was doing the MBB I would go internal being 1.25 and all. I still might talk to them about it and get opinions.. but I never ran anything thru the 10s I had on my last bike and there was no fairing to block the bars so they hung out there and they didn't look bad. The braided brake line helped.
