yeah. So there's no way I'm paying $300 for highway pegs. So I took off the covers and low and behold there are some bars there that items can bolt to!
So I look around for cheap accessories and highway pegs. Hmmm....there's the online retailers (JC Whitney type folks), but I wanted to see them myself. So where do you go when you're looking for stuff to bolt on a motorcycle? A HARLEY DEALERSHIP!!!
So I explain I'm looking for some cheap bolt-on highway pegs. Boom. Up on the on wall are some $40 pegs that say Harley on them. As tempted as I was, I chose the $35 dollar ones that only have Harley written on the bottom and are solid black on top.
So as you can see, I bolted them far forward, but on that bar. The pegs were designed for a 1" to 1 and 1/4" bar. Our bars are smaller (7/8" I guess?). So I stopped by service and asked if they had an old inner tube from a bike that they were throwing out. Yup. So I got a busted inner tube for free to cut up and insert as a rubber spacer for the clamps.
Well, after taking off the fairing and bolting it down tight, dremeling the side covers, re-dremeling the side covers to make it fit, dremeling yet again cause it didn't fold up easily and was rubbing, the finished product is very acceptable for $35.
Pros: Cheap. Works. Doesn't look half-bad. Folds up out of the way when you don't want it.
Cons: Because the bar is set in from the tipover part, you can just rest your heel on it. I may in the future look at a way to extend the bar further out or bolt something on/around it to make it longer. Also, it's canted forward EVERY so slightly. But not too noticeable. And I would have preferred flat black to the chrome. But for that cheap, I'm ok with it.
So I look around for cheap accessories and highway pegs. Hmmm....there's the online retailers (JC Whitney type folks), but I wanted to see them myself. So where do you go when you're looking for stuff to bolt on a motorcycle? A HARLEY DEALERSHIP!!!
So I explain I'm looking for some cheap bolt-on highway pegs. Boom. Up on the on wall are some $40 pegs that say Harley on them. As tempted as I was, I chose the $35 dollar ones that only have Harley written on the bottom and are solid black on top.
So as you can see, I bolted them far forward, but on that bar. The pegs were designed for a 1" to 1 and 1/4" bar. Our bars are smaller (7/8" I guess?). So I stopped by service and asked if they had an old inner tube from a bike that they were throwing out. Yup. So I got a busted inner tube for free to cut up and insert as a rubber spacer for the clamps.
Well, after taking off the fairing and bolting it down tight, dremeling the side covers, re-dremeling the side covers to make it fit, dremeling yet again cause it didn't fold up easily and was rubbing, the finished product is very acceptable for $35.
Pros: Cheap. Works. Doesn't look half-bad. Folds up out of the way when you don't want it.
Cons: Because the bar is set in from the tipover part, you can just rest your heel on it. I may in the future look at a way to extend the bar further out or bolt something on/around it to make it longer. Also, it's canted forward EVERY so slightly. But not too noticeable. And I would have preferred flat black to the chrome. But for that cheap, I'm ok with it.
