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sesamestreet Full Member Offline Posts: 122 Mississauga Gender:	Swapping out drag bar for Biltwell keystone 01/16/14 at 20:25:30 Will the controls need to be rewired? or is there enough slack?
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mpescatori Serious Thumper Offline Romanum Thumperium Cavalco, yeaaah !!! Posts: 3547 Rome, Italy Gender:	Re: Swapping out drag bar for Biltwell keystone Reply #1 - 01/16/14 at 22:45:45 Hi. I replaced the stock dragbar on my 1988 4ps. Savage with a 30 or 32" dragbar (same OEM risers) and the wires were juuust right. I had to renew the brake line, though, so I went for braided hose
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Demin Serious Thumper Offline We need more chlorine in the gene pool Posts: 2435 Warren,Ohio Gender:	Re: Swapping out drag bar for Biltwell keystone Reply #2 - 01/17/14 at 06:19:19 The drags have just enough for them and that's it.But if you shorten your risers,depending on how high the bars are.You MIGHT get away with it.
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Re: Swapping out drag bar for Biltwell keystone
Reply #3 - 01/17/14 at 07:35:47

I replaced 05 drag bars with Biltwell Frisco bars. Had to do some modding. Removed risers from equation. but still used the handlebar clamps. In order to do this I had to buy some longer bolts to fit down in clamps and go through triple tree. Once that was mounted, I could mount my bars. I had just enough slack after taking brake line out of holders. Right now my brake line is zip tied in a few places to keep it from just being loose. Also had to fiddle with throttle cable a bit and slightly twist throttle control so cable would have a bit of slack. Should I have gotten new cables? Probably. But I'm cheap and it works for me. BTW my bars are 7" rise I believe.

Definitely do some measuring and what not, but really I just started in and fixed as I went....isn't that the way youre supposed to do it? Roll Eyes

Good luck!

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Duckman24 YaBB Newbies Offline Life's better on 2 wheels! Posts: 13 Ottawa, Canada	Re: Swapping out drag bar for Biltwell keystone Reply #4 - 01/17/14 at 08:34:43 I'm thinking of doing the same to my 05 . On the Biltwell site it has the Kestone handlebars listed with a 5" rise? As this is my first time working on handlebars, I sure would appreciate any tips on grip replacement! Nick, can you tell me what size bolts you used to go through the triple tree? Thanks. Duck
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sesamestreet Full Member Offline Posts: 122 Mississauga Gender:	Re: Swapping out drag bar for Biltwell keystone Reply #5 - 01/20/14 at 06:21:59 I'm thinking of getting the 1" bar and i THINK the stock bar is 1", so hoping i can reuse the stock risers.
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Re: Swapping out drag bar for Biltwell keystone
Reply #6 - 01/20/14 at 11:34:23

duckman, I would think the 5" rise should be fine. as far as size, I honestly cannot remember. I just took the little mounting bar in the store and got the size that fit down in there. I got the same kind of hex keyed bolt head though, that way it would slid down in the recess. and for grips, just whatever you want, in a 1". I got some Kung Fu grips from biltwell and love them, but the throttle tube is too long, so about half an inch shows on the inside. If i get time, and you haven't already got the parts, I'll take my bars off and take some shots of everything and measure. might be next weekend though.

sesamestreet, yea, stock is 1" and I reused the flat piece that held the drag bars on top of the risers. so you should be good.

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sesamestreet Full Member Offline Posts: 122 Mississauga Gender:	Re: Swapping out drag bar for Biltwell keystone Reply #7 - 01/20/14 at 14:31:37 So you're saying the throttle tube can't be reused?
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Duckman24 YaBB Newbies Offline Life's better on 2 wheels! Posts: 13 Ottawa, Canada	Re: Swapping out drag bar for Biltwell keystone Reply #8 - 01/20/14 at 14:43:45 Nick, if you could take a few pics that would be great . Like Sesamestreet asked, did you use the stock throttle tube, I'm thinking of going with black coke bottle grips.
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Badass94Cad Senior Member Offline This space for rent Posts: 313 Mass-->Jerz-->PA! Gender:	Re: Swapping out drag bar for Biltwell keystone Reply #9 - 01/20/14 at 14:50:41 You can reuse the throttle tube. I reused the stock tube with coke bottle grips on a hybrid Keystone/ Frisco bar.
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nickthe_human Full Member Offline Posts: 172 Arkansas Gender:	Re: Swapping out drag bar for Biltwell keystone Reply #10 - 01/22/14 at 12:26:19 Yea. I reused throttle tube. The grips I got are just shorter so the inside shows a little. I will try to take some shots as soon as i get a chance.
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