Mine finally arrived the other day and after working a lot of over time I managed to get a little free time late in the evenings to work on it and man, that free time was well spent. I buttoned it up this evening and bleed the front brakes and rode her home...OMG! These bars ROCK and look awesome. I also did a few other things while doing the install, switched out to braided cables and braided brake lines.

I swapped the stock speakers out for a set of JBL's and put tweeters in the old mirror locations and they sound awesome. Also did the button release gas door thingy. I'll try to get some pictures posted tomorrow if all possible, I have doctor's appointment at 1 PM and it needs a bath bad.

The only down side really was running the wires through the bars, that up and down sharp turn was kind of a pain but a little WD40 helped on that and the rest was a pretty easy.

 

Yeah pics would be great, those are the bars I'm going with as well, did you buy their instillation kit or no?

 

Right on BadX. Mine should be here next week sometime. I can't wait.

Zach

 

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I always wanted to use that

 

I'm ordering mine soon anyone know how backed up yaffee is.

 

Ordered mine on the 20th of March....talked to them today and they will be here tommorrow (April 18th). Nice guys to work with but they are in a bind to get the bars done sooooooooo you gotta wait if thats what you want.

 

ho hum. pics

 

Finally got her cleaned up yesterday and here are a few pictures. I am not crazy about the mirrors but I didn't have a lot of options and I needed some asap so I took what I could and will be changing that around some.

I did get the Yaffe supersize kit with braided cables which came with braided Goodrich brake lines. It was pricey imo but everything worked great and everything was the correct size for the job. It took me two evenings and a total of8 hours to get it done. That included tearing her down, replacing all the cables( I hate pulling off the gas tank...GRRRR) running the wires through the bars, installing the new speakers and adding the tweeters. The only real snag I hit was pulling the wires through the bars. That angle at the top was a little tricky getting around but I got past that everything went really smooth. I love the look and feel of the bars and think it was money well spent. I believe I could have left the stock mirrors on and they would have been very functional where with the WildOne 575's they made them all but useless.


New JBL 357 speakers installed with foam cones over them to help direct the tunes



Get ready to do some soldering.





A close up of the Polk tweeters, these things really add to the sound. They come with a inline cross over and really sound great.


Pimpin in front of the shop

 

Hey BadX, are those bars 16"? I'm picking up some bars in two weeks and trying to decide between 13 or 16".

BTW those look awsome,great job.

 

Your bike is really turning out great.
How tall are those bars?