My wife is used to having grab handles on the back of my previous motorcycles. I'm now on a Sport Glide and looking to do some touring this summer with my wife on the back. All the passenger grab handles I can find were for 2013 and earlier touring bikes. I'm thinking about fabricating some for the Sport Glide. I'll wait until I get a new passenger seat this spring for design fitment (the stock Sport Glide passenger seat is a bad joke).

I wanted to check around here and see if anyone has fab'd up some kind of passenger grab handles?

 

Maybe something like this?

https://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/mpo...791789092.html

 

I see tons of those grab handles for sale everywhere. I am trying to avoid drilling holes in my fender to mount the older touring style. If I don't come up with a better solution, I may go that route.

 

 

I'm looking for some rigid and bike-mounted.

The biggest advantage to bike mounted grab handles is allowing the passenger to hold herself back during hard braking...whether during aggressive riding/cornering or emergency braking. We have had experience with the latter. A truck turns left in front of us pulling a triple-axle trailer of scrap metal. Luckily my wife was holding on to the handles when I put the works to the brakes. Otherwise, she would have slammed in to the back of me ... possibly upsetting balance or interrupting my maximum-effort braking.

 

I ended up fabricating my own solution. I got some handles off Amazon, then made some mounting brackets out of 3/16" flat stock.

Prototype...



Assembly and fender strut modification...





Final product...

 

Nice job.

Harley will be offering this as an option, something like $800 per side.

 

As long as I don't go on a diet, my girl has plenty of handles to grab onto. LOL

(I can't believe no one else said that first)