Custom built, going to add a back pad for the wife in the future.....

 

Is there any down side to having say a 24" sissy bar? catch the wind or anything like that.do you have to relocate the blinkers ? Sorry for the hijack.
Jim

 

thanks for the thread dude i have been looking to for the wife I like the medium low in black

 

PERFECT!!

i talked with the local bike/fab shop about something very similar (maybe not as tall). he mentioned doing the same thing about welding it to the fender rack, and the only issue i thought of was the seat.

i bought a factory 2 up seat to change out when the wife might want to ride (thanks to a HD forum member).

we (me and shop owner) didn't know how a passenger pillion would work on top of the rack. he mentioned that if i wasn't REALLY attached to the rack, we could try it both ways, weld the bar to the rack, as well as fab up one to replace the rack (use the same type of mount to the fender).

do you have a pic of it with the seat mounted? and what kind of seat did you use?

 

I have the "standard" HD detachable ones.

With:



And without



As mentioned in one of the earlier posts; it is easy to remove (< 1 min). "C" shape at the front, click-in lock at the back. I typically ride w/o and put it on if my daughter (12) joins me for a ride.

 

I just started building custom Sissy bars here is the one I built for mine.

 

Got this 1 piece off of E-bay back in October

 

here is the seat he has: http://www.harley-davidson.com/gma/g...bmLocale=en_US

 

Harley gloss black quick detatchable low. Put the touring pad on it. I want to do the mod from these forums where you mount your saddlebags to the detatchable side plates.

 

Bspike1 gives you the link to the seat that I have. I am attaching some pics of the rack before the sissy bar, and after. When the shop fabbed the bar, I left the rack and seat with them so that they could attach the bar and leave room for the seat to still work. I'm real happy with the job they did. The last pic is the HD low sissy bar that attaches to the clip on seat. If your interested in that instead, PM me and I'll give you a good price.