Yes, I got the stem real hot with a torch, put a socket on the stem & pounded with a dead blow hammer to get it out of the trees. That's the hardest part, installation is a piece of cake.
I look at all your crazy awesome customs and say to my self how I would love that one. And that one and so on an it just ever stops.
But with out the $$ or the time, I know it is just like any other pipe dream of mine. So eventually the all knowing side of me says... Just ride it as is!
Why I bought it in the first place ha ha.
But still love seein what you guys can do. So keep on modding brothers!