Gonna finally swap the OEM bars for Heritage bars on my RK. Picked them up today + the parts guy highly recommended swappin out the OEM riser bushing for the polyurethane. Claims it makes a world of difference in the steering. Anyone got any experience on this? Those suckas were $50 bucks + don't wanna bother unless it's a noticeable difference. THANX

 

I prefer stock rubber style bushings.

I have carpal tunnel and the rubber do not transfer vibrations as well.

the poly ones do

mike

 

They transfer vibes but they also take away the play in the bars. I have to switch out sometime soon, I have play in my bars. The play is not noticeable on drags or short bars but very noticeable with apes

 

I have a 01 RKClassic and installed 16" apes last year. The bars were sloppy with original rubber, so i put the poly ones in shortly after and it tightened the bars right up. better to do all at once, where rubber or poly , i would install new ones with new bars. I got them for on $10 ebay. Well worth it imo.

 

Buy the bushings off Amazon or JP Cycles for almost half.

 

When I did my 10" mini apes, I decided not to change the stock bushings.
My bars are nice and tight, no different then they were with the old bars.
I'm sure the difference would come more into play with higher bars,
but with 10", the stock ones work fine.
That helped keep the price of swapping the bars to $230.
$199 for the WW mini apes, $25 for the one piece clamp, and $6 for the wires.
Labor was free.
I'm too cheap to spend money where it isn't needed..

 

Don't wanna go in twice. Just do it. The higher the bars the faster the stock ones will wear out. The higher the bars the sooner you'll notice too. Just a matter of time b4 you need them. You can wait if you wanna going again someday and swap them but sooner or later...

 

I swapped out mine with the poly ones when I did my bars, They feel great and I wouldn't say they vibrate a lot.

 

Do it! I changed my bars out to 14" burly bagger bars and kept the rubber bushings in for about a year. they would go forward and back a good 1 inch under braking and acceleration. Swapped to the polys and they hardly move now with the same vibration as before. The bike feels a lot more stable now as well, just feels solid.

 

I have poly bushings, and I don't notice the vibration on the bar any different than the rubber bushings.