Finally put on my Ultimate seat & rider backrest compliments of tmac00333.
Come on spring!

 

Installed a new battery in my 2018 Heritage. Job was not as bad as I expected since on the 2018 the battery is below the monoshock. I watched a youtube video and it was spot on on how to complete the job. It does take some patience, but I saved the $64 the dealer wanted to install. It took me about a half an hour,

 

After a thumbs up inspection from my main man, I put a 160 mile test hop on my winter project, the custom Softglide Trailer and custom Hitch.


I built the trailer last fall and tested it behind the HHR on 2 trips to Manistee Mi. on my annual Salmon fishing trips, held all the gear for 2 people with room to spare, and pulled like it was part of the HHR. But all winter I was worried about how it would pull behind the much lighter small Softail. I also was not sure how well the hitch I made would handle its job, @ 13lbs. total I was hoping it would be heavy duty enough for the task. After today, running state highways, county roads, city streets, hilly winding terrain and over 70 mph emergency swerve and stop tests,,,, I am relieved it passed with flying colors!



Oh ya, and the first big ride of the 2020 season, what a day, going to make them long trips a lot more frequent this year!

 

Looking good Catter, great job.

 

Ive been thinking about a back rest, I have a 2003 FLSTC what year is yours? How makes it how hard to install?

 

Road King touring pack, on a custom mount I built. But pick the touring pack you like, and fabricate a mount to fit your bike, I used the factory sissy bar receiver for the rear mounting bars, and the two forward fender strut bolts for two front mounting bars which support the stainless steel frame welded between the two. With 8 fusions in my spine. and a pinned and plated beck with busted vertebrae in it, It was something I had to have if I wanted to ride more than a few mile at a time.

I'm not sure but I think they offer a one up mount, you would just maybe have to relocate the mounting holes for the pack to get the proper location of the backrest to suite you, or natbe get lucky and it would be just right as it comes? hope that helps!

 

Looks great! I can't help but notice, that orange rear "bumper" would make a nice taillight mount, for optimum visibility.

Hope you enjoy yours as much as I've enjoyed mine. Same bike, same trailer, many memorable adventures in between...
Sturgis 2003

Sturgis 2015

 

Thanks Pepe, that bumper is an old steel lawn chair rear legs, I intended it to be for storage, so I can stand it on end and bungy it to the side wall of the garage. For the rear visibility, I used a set of 9 LED lights, with 5 LED's on each one, for a total of 45 LED's, they do light it up! You can tell how bright by the reflection on the gravel drive, the HHR shows no red behind it, but the little camp trailer makes a huge reflection on the ground.


The one thing I am going to add is a 24" fiberglass rod (the top 2' of an old Loran "c" antenna I had from years ago before GPS) I found backing the trailer behind the HHR as it will do double duty behind the HHR as well, you can't see a dam thing it's so narrow. It will double as a flag pole when heeded, and a rear trailer indicator when backing for visibility in the mirror.

I don't throw anything away, the trailer frame is an old lightweight boat trailer from my old 12" aluminum boat, I new it would come in handy someday, the bumper was one of three old lawn chair frames that I couldn't buy webbing to replace, that Loran "c" whip off my old navigation system just adds a touch of class, the floor for the charging centers battery and the cooler was an old lp bottle cage a station was going to pitch, the hitch was some old scrap plate I had drug home, nothing like fabricating new stuff out of old junk! I got more money in the Kuryakyn wire harness and 5 to 4 wire adapter that everything else.

Plus since I din't have any hardwater this winter to fish on, it saved ne a bunch money keeping me busy,,,, well except for using it for a reason to buy a new Lincoln Multi-purpose welder, now I got stick, tig and gas and gasless welding in one unit, and a new welding cart I built just for it. Having no winter weather this year sucked, but I got a lot of stuff done.

 

If you are referring to my rider backrest it has a tongue that slides into the seat so installation is a breeze but you gotta buy a new seat.
I have seen others that mount on the rear two seat hold down screws but can't vouch for them. With my fender bib, rack and seat I can barely get the hold down nuts started (you run out of thread with all those things).
ETA: mine is a 2008.

 

Sorry I thought he was referring to the backrest on the trunk, but ya that ultimate touring seat is fabulous, I have the same one if its the Wide Touring, and like you said, them seat nuts are a bear! I couldn't mount the rest your talking about on mine, and the bad thing is I didn't by the seat W/the rest so I can't use the one you got, Mustang offers it but if you don't buy it from the get go, like me it wont work. But yer hona love the seat, I can;t explain hot much better the comfort zone is, but yer gonna find out!