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billy Ex Member	making highway bars ? 09/07/06 at 21:59:53 After reading the post about making your own forward controls I cot to wondering, does anybody have any ideas about making your own highway bars. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. thanks Billy
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clueless-FSO Senior Member Offline Posts: 454 Birmingham, Al Gender:	Re: making highway bars ? Reply #1 - 09/08/06 at 04:46:35 I made some. Not using them now as I got some forward controls from Ed_L (which BTW still are awsome). I'll try to find a pic and post. Pretty easy to fabricate.
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Reply #2 - 09/08/06 at 06:25:06

i'm considering that right now. i have several ideas, eventually one of them will settle in and i'll build it.

one idea is a simple cross bar, with standard, cheap, readily available harley pegs hanging on the ends, u-bolts doing the clamping to the down tubes in a fashion that allows height adjustment of the bar/pegs.

another idea is to mock the forward control brackets, and attatch extensions outward that the highway pegs would attach to, similar to the current factory set up on harley fxs.

thirdly, i'm considering a used suzuki crash bar and modifying it to suit my desire.

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Trouble Ex Member	Re: making highway bars ? Reply #3 - 09/08/06 at 06:58:35 I bought 2001 Savage that has the homemade highway bars. They look OK and are held on by U bolts like Azjay described. You still have to be careful that your heel doesn't hit the brake
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thumperclone Serious Thumper Alliance Member Online PGR rider riding with respect Posts: 6085 Grand Junction Colorado Gender:	Re: making highway bars ? Reply #4 - 09/08/06 at 08:56:16 Trouble wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09: I bought 2001 Savage that has the homemade highway bars. They look OK and are held on by U bolts like Azjay described. You still have to be careful that your heel doesn't hit the brake my oem engine guard is held on by u bolts also
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Reply #5 - 09/12/06 at 12:36:29

I made a foreward control kit yself..... and I wonder why I didnt do it the first day I had the Savage..... The ride is much better now Grin

If you have not surfed Jons site yet, you owe yourself to do it, theres a lot of good stuff there ! Amongst other a "how to" for highway pegs that I was thinking of doing !
http://www.jonline.org/savage/Tips___How-to_s/HiWay_Pegs/hiway_pegs.html

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vroom1776 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2110 Gender:	Re: making highway bars ? Reply #6 - 09/12/06 at 17:41:56 Can you weld and/or bend pipe? If so, I may have some ideas. V
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billy

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Reply #7 - 09/12/06 at 21:41:20

Thanks for all ther replies. I have gotten quite a few ideas. Vroom1776 please by all means share. I no longer have a welder, it went with the 'x'. I do have a friend that has access to a machine shop. He has said that he would help out if I did some drawings. So any and all ideas will be a blessing. once again thanks for the help.

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azjay Serious Thumper Offline aridzona... its a dry heat Posts: 816 Gender:	Re: making highway bars ? Reply #8 - 09/13/06 at 08:33:22 vroom1776 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09: Can you weld and/or bend pipe? If so, I may have some ideas. V absolutely! plus we have a full size industrial mill and an industrial 48" metal lathe, lets hear your thoughts! DangMan; nice brackets, i like the hot rod hole drillin'
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Reply #9 - 09/13/06 at 12:15:00

The biggest trick, IMO, is to make something you like the looks of, is comfy, and doesn't get in the way of the header pipe or foot controls.

That being said... I have a couple of ideas...

1) a heart shaped highway bar would require welding AND bending, but should easily attach to where the downtube splits, but I htink it would have to go BEHIND the header.

2) Get some short apehangers, weld to downtube (must be a really good weld). Done. Make sure they don't interfere with turning the bike, though.

3) the top "tubes" that hold the footpegs on could be used to bolt or clamp bottoms of HWbars to, then, you could go up to the neck and weld there. Would be pretty interesting...

4) same as above, but w/ forward controls. Would give you lots of leg room.

I suggest staring at the bike w/ a beer and a cigarette. Keep staring. Any good ideas yet?

I also suggest using 1" OD steel as many footpeg clamps will work.

I also also suggest making amock up first to make sure everything will fit, and not hit the fender or tire.

Hope this gives you guys some ideas.

Good luck!

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azjay Serious Thumper Offline aridzona... its a dry heat Posts: 816 Gender:	Re: making highway bars ? Reply #10 - 09/14/06 at 12:44:18 thanks, yep, considered using old handlebars too
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Ed L. Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline "We All go a Little Crazy Sometimes" Norman Bates Posts: 2808 Sunny Florida Gender:	Re: making highway bars ? Reply #11 - 09/14/06 at 16:24:17 I've been looking at shopping carts as a source of chromed, bent pipe to make custom engine guards out of . Bet you could make a real nice luggage rack out of one also. A torch and hacksaw will go a long way with a little imagination. Still need to liberate the raw materials.
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vroom1776 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2110 Gender:	Re: making highway bars ? Reply #12 - 09/14/06 at 16:41:38 Ed, That is a P I M P PIMP idea! V
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Reply #13 - 09/14/06 at 21:57:42

Ed L. wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09:

I've been looking at shopping carts as a source of chromed, bent pipe to make custom engine guards out of Grin

. Bet you could make a real nice luggage rack out of one also. A torch and hacksaw will go a long way with a little imagination. Still need to liberate the raw materials.

LOL that would be a killer idea, remember to post pictures of before/after cart Grin

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Reply #14 - 09/23/06 at 06:45:22

after spending some study time with a tape measure and a couple beers on the projcet at hand, i settled on the suzuki engine protector. i was at the stealership the other day ordering o-rings for rocker covers(appearantly at $2 @ they're too expensive to keep on the shelf Angry

) when i noticed it hanging on the wall for $85, i put a tape measure to it, and decided i was intending to build one with the same demensions, and mine wouldn't be chromed. we then went the HD shop and ordered a set of clamp-on ISO highway pegs from V-TWIN for $40, they'll be here next week. she's talking about saddle bags next Undecided

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