Nothing like stepping onto a Harley and going right to the top!
Welcome to the board.....there are a lot of us here from Nor Cal. If you're scrapping floor boards on your first ride out, you'll fit right in, here!
Here's a ride that you may be interested in...... http://www.cvoharley.com/smf/index.php?topic=17797.0 and another thread here for conversation regarding it..... http://www.cvoharley.com/smf/index.php?topic=17796.0
Lookin forward to puttin some miles down together! 
I have to scrape them, I live up in the Santa Cruz mountains and there aren't any straight roads around here.

Can you make them foldable, like footpegs?
That looks like a great ride. Someday when my kids are older I'll be able to do something like that.
And it didn't take long to get my first "mod", I just ordered a taller Clearview shield. So I guess my

is popped and it's all down hill from here. I've been thinking about some RHTD's, a new A/C and a SERT, just strictly to lower operating temps of course.