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[MObe]

Mobe - I was hoping for a better answer   Do you have the updated/upgraded grips in hand because my dealer is saying they are on national backorder with no release date given.  Hopefully they're starting to distribute the new ones.  PJ

PJ I finally got mine a couple of days ago. They were ordered in August.

[Elvis]

Mobe,
How about letting us know when you get your 725's installed and what you think.
And remember.... [smiley=worthless.gif]

thanks,

elvis

[MObe]

You got it Elvis. As soon as they get here I will take pics of the install and post.

[MObe]

Gave up on the 725's. Ordered the 650 28715's. They have these in stock and they ship today.

[Elvis]

Gave up on the 725's. Ordered the 650 28715's. They have these in stock and they ship today.

You go boy.  Here's hoping they solve the problem for you (and me).  Also will be interested to hear if you think the stock cables will work with those bars, as that is what Flanders claimed.  

Also, just how tough is it to do my own internal wiring?  Is it relatively simple to get the harness thru or would I be better off paying the, aaargggh, 4 hours of labor to my local stealer to do it....?  

elvis

[MObe]

 It's a pretty straight-forward deal if you take your time and do some planning. You will need to make yourself a map of where the wires go on the connectors when you disassemble them, (best to have a shop manual to show how to take the connectors apart, + they have a map in case you mess up). If you aren't putting heated grips on it's a lot easier, ( 2 less wires to thread through). You will need to cut down an allen wrench to take the top clamp off without taking a bunch of the fairing loose. You will need a set of ball end allen wrenches to take the radio out.
.............on second thought it can be a real bitch the first time that you try it, unless you have a lot of time and patience. The first time I did this I added heated grips and the whole project took about 12 hours. The second time I did it, it took about 4 hours, the third time also took about 4 hours. 4th time coming up!

[ccr]

Elvis,  Let me caution you here on what Mobe is telling you. If you have ever read about the paint problems that Mobe has survived, you will realise that this is a man of abundant patience.  Unless you are this kind of man, I'd pay someone else to do it.  But then I'd pay anyone else to do almost anything to my bike, as I am not a wrencher. When I think of all that Mobe has been through, all the posts he has posted about running wires in handlebars including pictures I think that I don't know very many people with his kind of forward planning and patience.  Seriously, I encourage you to just read his past threads.  He can even drop a wrench on his own much replaced by the MoCo fender, and then go to the edge of a cliff to throw over some rocks, beat a couple of saplings then find peace that he has to buy one of his many replaced tin parts himself.  This is a man with much patience.   My hat off to you Mobe with continuing to wrestle with this handlebar issue. I thought the WildOne 575 was the answer. I know I love them.  

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[MObe]

Candy;   I really like the wo 575 bars also, but I want just a little bit more pullback and I would like my hands tucked behind the fairing just a bit more. I have to pull everything back apart anyway to put on the "A" series stealth heated grips, so I figured I would check out some of the Flanders bars. The 575's were almost there but I just love to tinker.
  Believe it or not I just got a call the other day from my local HD shop asking if I could provide them with information on how to contact Caliber for another customer because HD would not give them the numbers!

[ccr]

Buddy, I sure wish that Virginia and Missouri were a whole lot closer together.  I am so happy you love to tinker.  I know my husband and I go to the garage and I am the one that is supposed to get the... get the whatever needs to be gotten... and I don't know nothing about what a wrench, screw driver, seee.... I don't even know the names of the tools let alone the size of them are. My husband has a lot of work benches and tool boxes full of tools.  I am not sure how to use them or what they are all for. He knows a lot more than I do, but he is really a world class chef, not a mechanic.  I am a web builder not a mechanic.  What a waste of valuable talent when it does not help you with your real passion in life and that is riding a bike that fits you.. Mobe, again, I take my hat off to you.  You are a very patient guy.  As for more pull back.... I am Ok where my handlebars are for the moment. I just have to figure out my seating situation. I have a corbin seat from my road king.... using the stock tour pak pad on my relocated tour pak and it pushes me forward on the seat.  I don't get to use the whole seat, I am pushed forward (not a bad thing) but the seat from the road king really does not sit right on the SEEG.  Arghhhhh! I hate spending good money after good money, but I think I have to get the right seat, and then start chasing down the tour pak relo, the handle bars etc.  Is there not a one stop shop to get it all right the first time?  

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[MObe]

Candy; I have seen a thread around here someplace where a guy took 90 degree aluminum angle bars and mounted one set to the bottom of the tour pak, and one set to the tourpak mounting bracket. He was then able to move the tourpak back and forth on the bracket by sliding the brackets past one another and bolting them together when he had things set the way he liked them. Think of an L and a 7 when looking at the brackets from the end. The leg of the L and the leg of the 7 slide past each other for adjustment and a bolt is put through the predrilled holes in 2 places to secure it when it is set properly. It's cheap and it just might work.    Cheers!

[hogasm]

Where are you ordering your wild-1 bars from?

[Twolanerider]

Where are you ordering your wild-1 bars from?

Hogasm, my best recollection is folks ordering either through their dealership (some dealers wouldn't install if they didn't sell the part) or (more commonly) ordering from Wild 1 directly.  

[MObe]

 

[MObe]

2737 Stock bars right side

[MObe]

2738 Stock Bars Back