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Old Jun 25, 2013 | 04:28 AM
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Does anybody have pics of the HD batwing bars ?Harley-Davidson® 57485-11 .
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Old Jun 25, 2013 | 10:08 AM
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These are the 12" batwing bars. Wish I would have gone with the 14"s, but I'm happy with them. And they are comfortable.


 
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Whoops. Sorry. Guess you were looking for the black ones.
 
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It seems in all the pics of these bars people have switched to bar-mounted mirrors. Are the fairing-mounted mirrors rendered useless by your new hand location?
 
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Old Jun 25, 2013 | 11:48 AM
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Did you need to change cables and brake lines with those 12" bars? Looks like about what I'm interested in.
 
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Old Jun 25, 2013 | 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Redbeard
It seems in all the pics of these bars people have switched to bar-mounted mirrors. Are the fairing-mounted mirrors rendered useless by your new hand location?
For me they were. If they were a little taller, you could probably see the fairing mounted mirrors with ease, but I couldn't. I also could not get adjusted to looking under my hands for mirrors instead of over the top of them.

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Did you need to change cables and brake lines with those 12" bars? Looks like about what I'm interested in.
Yeah, I had too. I wanna say you need something like +4" on both. But now, I have seen someone stretch their clutch line out and put it between the bars and fairing and that worked, but just barely.
 
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Originally Posted by Jbizzle
These are the 12" batwing bars. Wish I would have gone with the 14"s, but I'm happy with them. And they are comfortable.


Sorry for the late response ,night shift,Are these the Harley Bars?
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Whoops. Sorry. Guess you were looking for the black ones.
Chrome or Black

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Did you need to change cables and brake lines with those 12" bars? Looks like about what I'm interested in.
I changes the cables with my current bars wo577 +6, but I have been told with the HD batwing bars you could reroute the cables and reuse stock.
 
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Old Jun 26, 2013 | 08:57 AM
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Originally Posted by crimson13
Sorry for the late response ,night shift,Are these the Harley Bars?

Chrome or Black
oh ok.


I changes the cables with my current bars wo577 +6, but I have been told with the HD batwing bars you could reroute the cables and reuse stock.
Yes, they are harley.
I'm not sure about the brake cable. But that is true with the clutch.
 
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Id like to go with them also
 
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Old Jun 26, 2013 | 10:55 AM
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Do you notice any movement in the bars? I had a set of 16's on an 07, and got a bunch of movement...
 
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