Chaz, you flatter me, I always thought your bike is bad ***..
I will get on the rotation and pics once I get back home from business tomorrow ..

Once the bars are rotated they are 2" higher and cops in Ontario where I live get really pissed with high bars, so I will move my spring seat a notch up and forward at the same time , no biggie.

As for the bike, well, it is a story, I had a few good years racing tracks on a GSXR600 and on the street on an R1, then I felt I don't want to be mashed up, time to get a nice Harley, I got me an 01 Standard and fell in love with the new ride, I was just thinking I need some apes on it.

Next I know.. a cager U-Turns into me, Doctors telling me I may lose my leg, long story short, spent one year in bed surgery after surgery to save my leg, but Canadian health system is good (don't listen to anything else, I'm living proof )...

During this time I read many books about bike cutlure in North America and Canada, and many books on building choppers and bikes etc.. I moved from a geek who likes the way bikes look to someone who wants to wrench.

So, on a cane a year later I go shopping, landed this 01 Standard with drag bars on it.. and it has been a year and a half now, I basicly changed the fork lowers, and dropped the front 1", back 1.5", changed the seat (had Mustang solo, then Lepra barebones, finally the spring seat), the fork boots were a good ebay find, not fancy like the ness ones but I wanted 'no fancy', the white wall was just me tinkering and it worked well, I put some extra pinstripping and decals, changed engine covers and the bars ofcourse.

Next year I am hoping to fine tune the seat situation, powdercoat the triple trees black, and hopefully paint the bike flat black or Millitary green (think MASH ), and maybe poweder coat the rims copper/orange to highlight the white walls.. but this plan is ... more of a dream than a plan really, I like the bike the way it is now, and I am thinking of saving more money like the rest of us..

Ramble end..time to sleep

Thanks man again, I always read your posts and admire them.

Regards

A.

 

In case you are not aware, all you need to do is loosen the top bolts on the riser clamp. Only loosen them a turn or two and move the bars. Tighten them back up. Ride and see if it works for you. My bars are quite forward and that is the only way i am comfortable with them.