Tarheel, you want to order your new cables from Barnett Clutches, just put that name in your search window. Don't freehang them like mine are, they beat the ever lovin' s**t out of the tank paint, quick fast and in a hurry. For the brake hose, Goodridge, Russel, Earls or Godwin High Performance, with 12mm banjo adaptors. The hoses come with AN fittings (aerospace) for ends, the banjos adapt AN to the bike. Those four companies are top quality. You could go with a cheap rubber hose if you want, they all carry them, but for the long run and funky bends involved with following the apehangers...go with braided stainless hose. Rubber over that long a span can lose pressure to the caliper pretty easily. Think "bendy-art" balloons. If you plan to keep the brake, steel will let it work better, it doesn't expand under pressure.

You'll need to extend the right hand wiring. Buy non-dimpled bars, the later model dimpled bars are oval, you will have to clearance your switch housings to make them work on dimpled bars. The housings need all the beef they can keep, they are pretty fragile as is. With any HD spec apehanger, don't be surprised if the riser caps/bodies need some minor clearancing as well. Just a light 60 grit sanding helps the caps catch the knurling on the bars. And tighten the riser bolts until they sqeak. Otherwise, the bars WILL move when you least expect it. Found that one out the hard way...
-WD

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Fu*k the Mass RMV. Ive had about as much as I can take with the bureaucracy of this state. Fat politicians just sipping off the well write these stupid laws. I'm going to get it inspected, then swap out to a straigt pipe and apes. Then next year I'll swap back right before inspection. Up your arse Mitt Romney!  

Hey thanks man. Did you get a load of all that bullsh*t on the RMV website. They have no idea what ergonomics are best for me. Next thing you know, the Mass RMV will be telling me what color to paint my bike.

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A-men! That is the way it should be red_wine. The only reason the state cares about me and my stinking little bike is that they thay can squeeze another freaking nickel out of me. Oh I'm sorry that my loud motorcycle hurt your ears sir.  Hey you, your blinkers are not far enough apart, your handlebars are too high and your bike makes too much noise. Everyone needs to worry a little more about what is going on in their own lives and a little less about everyone else's.    Sorry if I sould like a lunatic, I go back and forth between anger and despair as I have lost all faith in the machine.  Thomas Jefferson would sh*t his pants if he could see what is happening here.

"FREEDOM. Talking about it and doing it and doing it are entirely different things"
George Hanson 1969

Hola Red! How did you make out with your LS400? Have her fixed from the mishap you had recently?
Read a book recently by American, Patrick Symmes entitled Chasing Che ... in the mid-90's, Symmes re-created Che Guevara's 1952 motorcycle journey around South America ... brilliant! I was particularly interested in the section of the trip which took the author through Chile.
Nightrain ... I'm a bit surprised to learn out the level of bureaucratic regulation in Mass.?? Strangely, here in Canada (where we tend to be much more regulated than the U.S.), there are no stipulations on the type of handlebars a Bike can or can't have (at least in Newfoundland anyways) ... hell, we don't even have to get motorcycles inspected ... annual registration costs $75.00CAD though ...

The political machine wants all of us to be carbon copy, mindless zombie, robot worker bees.

People wonder why I want to move back to the Andalucian coast... Paella, coastal sunsets, mile upon mile of low density roads, why couldn't I have been discharged when I was stationed there   ??? :'(  

Bike laws are written and presented by non-enthusiasts, or those who are outright hostile to everything motorcycle. Unfortunately, they see only the 1%ers when they see a modified bike. They don't see the millions of dollars of tax revenues for parts, fuel, accessories, motels, campgrounds, restaurants, etc.  They don't see the research dollars collected for dozens of international charities, ranging from critters to cancer to MS/MD to children's medical research, etc. They don't see the doctor, lawyer, stockbroker, COP, firefighter, GI, or other normal people (hundreds of thousands if you include quads, dirtbikes) who ride. They see the drug trafficers form the 70s. They don't see the community involvement, the toy runs, hospital runs, the fundraiser for the ambulance/fire services, the new equipment provided to rural communities for the benefit of ALL, not just those of us who ride.

I could go on for hours...for my money, highbars+custom lighting+loud pipe does not =criminal.
Why is my bike so much worse than a "street monster" 4X4, a flatulence piped mega bassed ground scraping "ricer" car, the lowriding Impala full of "guntoting thugs"...

F'n stereotypes chap my a$$.
-WD

Frost wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:04:


You are ALL WELCOME!!!!  

See, it is not difficult to come over here, get a decent job if you have the rights skills (or even start your own company, we latinos tend to enjoy life more, and work less   ), and become respected citizens (or bikers ,  8) )

Plus, it almost never snows in the cities, rain season is short in the Central Regions (non-existing in the mingin-thriving North, but more Seatland-like in the South), and we have gorgeous wine, seafood, fruits (ask Pennsylvanians), landscapes, you name it, so...
just stand in line with your papers at hand!!!  

See you here,

RW

PerrydaSavage wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:04:

My dear Perry,

In fact, the usual working day in Chile for white-collars is from 8:30 to 6:30, but we have a 1-hour lunch break, that can be "extended" slightly, and coffee breaks along the day, and lots of chatting around  

Yes, we are less productive per worked hour, but our salaries are lower, and our living costs also are...  

So, it's a compromise between more $ and more stress, or less $ and more relax...

See you here (you just don't need to wait until your daughter is out on her own, you can come over in your "low season" to our high-season summer and forget about the rest....  

See ya,

RW