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YoungSavage Junior Member Offline everyone knows I'm home by the KA-POW! Posts: 89 Monterey, California Gender:	sportster highway bar 04/16/14 at 13:58:49 Hey all, I was just on a stroll and saw an Hd sportster (newer) with what looks like their stock highway bar. Funny thing it looks like it simply uses a single bolt at the top to secure it to the frame. Anybody tried to put one on a savage instead of our tiny stock bar? YS
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Steve H Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1223 Spartanburg, SC Gender:	Re: sportster highway bar Reply #1 - 04/16/14 at 14:40:19 It has to attach somewhere else also. Just one attachment point would make it useless. Any pressure against it and it would rotate about the mounting point.
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old_rider Serious Thumper Offline Backyard Bill Productions Posts: 3147 flordia panhandle Gender:	Re: sportster highway bar Reply #2 - 04/16/14 at 15:13:18 Tongue in groove on bottom and one bolt on top? Would mean you would have to change the top of the tree.
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YoungSavage Junior Member Offline everyone knows I'm home by the KA-POW! Posts: 89 Monterey, California Gender:	Re: sportster highway bar Reply #3 - 04/16/14 at 15:49:41 Sorry didn't explain the lowers. I figured it would be assumed that they would attach to the peg portion of the bike. So attachment points are both pegs and one bolt near front of gas tank on the frame.
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YoungSavage Junior Member Offline everyone knows I'm home by the KA-POW! Posts: 89 Monterey, California Gender:	Re: sportster highway bar Reply #4 - 04/16/14 at 16:48:08 I believe it might actually be a softail hd.
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old_rider Serious Thumper Offline Backyard Bill Productions Posts: 3147 flordia panhandle Gender:	Re: sportster highway bar Reply #5 - 04/16/14 at 16:50:10 LOL, I thought it was a handle bar... I'm used to calling them crash bars or engine protectors.... sorry bout that... I actually used a set off of a Honda rebel, just made a couple brackets to adapt them to fit.
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Re: sportster highway bar
Reply #6 - 04/16/14 at 23:28:29

2 quick cuts and my 98 will be wearing the one off the Panhead. One of my friends is absolutely appalled at the idea of cutting up an "original" 50s crash bar... it was $20, from a salvage yard, and doesn't have any factory coding numbers...

I will have to heat and bend the shifter and brake arms a touch, and probably slide the floorboards back an inch or two for clearance, but... the stock accessory bar is a farce and the Wingerline is not only expensive, it's fugly.

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old_rider Serious Thumper Offline Backyard Bill Productions Posts: 3147 flordia panhandle Gender:	Re: sportster highway bar Reply #7 - 04/17/14 at 09:53:13 Found the link to my wife's bike that the 250 Honda crash bar I used on it. http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1290745273/667#667
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WD Serious Thumper 2005 No Login Offline Professional "scooter trash". Posts: 5207 Rosemark TN Gender:	Re: sportster highway bar Reply #8 - 04/17/14 at 09:58:27 old_rider wrote on 04/17/14 at 09:53:13: Found the link to my wife's bike that the 250 Honda crash bar I used on it. http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1290745273/667#667 That looks like they should look...
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YoungSavage Junior Member Offline everyone knows I'm home by the KA-POW! Posts: 89 Monterey, California Gender:	Re: sportster highway bar Reply #9 - 04/17/14 at 23:46:53 The rebels crash bar on a savage looks surprisingly good! Although WD I like the idea of using an old pan head crash bar too. Both will probably be easy to modify in order to use on the bike.
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