I still have the HD 2" touring pullbacks on mine...i like them better than stock and was able to change these without any cable upgrade plus i did it myself so it only cost me $50 for the bars so it was a cheap winter upgrade...not sure i want my hands in the wind in the winter...

 

I went with 16" Gangsters on my Road King and love them.

 

my 12's work just fine.

I see you're going to go with 14's......good deal

here are a couple pics of 12"s.





I'm 6'2 and the seat is a Le Pera that lowered me several inches, so keep this in mind if your still sitting on the factory sofa seat.




~Joe

 

Joe do you get any wind protection on your hands with the 12's from the fairing. I recently moved up to a SG from an old Vulcan 900. I had 18" apes on it and loved them. Want to do bagger apes on the SG but have come to enjoy warm hands lol

 

Those look great. What kind of bars are they? They dont look like wild1s. What year is your bike, and how tall is the windshield?

 

These are the 12" bars Harley Davidson sells. They are 1" dia. bars.

Windshield is a Klockweks 8.5 inch

bike is 2011 Streetglide

Seat is a LePera King Cobra, which sits me about 1-2 inches lower, and 3-4 inches back.

The stock seat made me feel like I was humping the tank....I like being behind and below the tank. On a stock seat, the bars will "feel" lower.

the BEST route, in my opinion, is to spend the $$$ and get the High Country Cycles COMPLETE kit, already wired with all chrome controls, levers everything, and it comes with the braided lines/cables.

Yes, it's expensive, but they just look good. I went the cheap route.....I just replaced the clutch cable, and re-routed my existing brake line.

~Joe

 

THX. I will look into the HCC kit. Ive been thinking 12s and after seeing yours I think thats what Im going with. Thx for posting up the pics, it was real helpful.

 

Not trying to start a flame war but I would be careful of the HCC set-ups. When i was researching a bar change I was coming up with lots of feedback that their braided lines were of questionable quality, I have no first person knowledge but if you are going to do it, at least check the claim out. It would suck to go through the process and 6 months later find out the lines are crap and all yellowed up.

 

I am having the same debate about whether to go with 12 or 14 inch apes for a 2012 Glide. I'm 5'11".

I would really like to be able to use the fairing mounted mirrors. It seems like the higher the bar, the more likely you can use the fairing mirrors.

How many of you out there with 12 inch apes are still using the fairing mirrors? To the OP, please post pix of your new bars.

 

I was able to still use my fairing mirrors on my 12.5 Wild ones. I ditched them as I didn't like them but if I had, they still worked fine. I am 6'0.