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I was an inch away from picking up a set of extended forward controls for the sporty. I'm 73 inches tall, and all of you can picture how my seating position is without forwards. (highway bar excluded)(and now removed because I hate the damn thing)...
I was 10 minutes away from the buy, and decided to ask the seller a little more info. He took some measurements for me, and needless to say the extended forwards are gaining a "fair" amount of length from the seated position, but not near enough to get the job done.
The sale fell through, and he was very understanding...
I'm too tall for the extended forward controls on either a dyna, or sporty, and I'm gonna venture way out there to you fabricator types for some serious advice.
I work in a fabrication shop, and can bend, fit, weld, cut and destroy just about anything I want to.
Is it a doable thing to create a set of custom forward controls, using the existing hardware perches, and re-locating them on the sporty ??
I can lengthen the rods and such very easily.
The mount point will be the bottom section of the down tubes where the highway bar was bolted on...By creating a new bracket assembly, I can mount the factory hardware to the new bracket system, and miss the exhaust..( I think ) those babies will be stretched out roughly 38 inches from the seat position, diagonal to the lower down tube mount plate..
After careful examination laying on my back for 2 hours on the garage floor, I honestly think it is, and I'm willing to create a unique set of forward controls just for me....
If anyone has done this over the years, or has knowledge of this type of fabrication, please reply to this thread...( and If you dont, reply anyway..)
I'm not worried about a chrome finish (yet) as I can chrome it later, but need to create a workable, and durable solution...(no, I'm not buying another bike cause thats cheating)...
Your thoughts ?????...........g
I was an inch away from picking up a set of extended forward controls for the sporty. I'm 73 inches tall, and all of you can picture how my seating position is without forwards. (highway bar excluded)(and now removed because I hate the damn thing)...
I was 10 minutes away from the buy, and decided to ask the seller a little more info. He took some measurements for me, and needless to say the extended forwards are gaining a "fair" amount of length from the seated position, but not near enough to get the job done.
The sale fell through, and he was very understanding...
I'm too tall for the extended forward controls on either a dyna, or sporty, and I'm gonna venture way out there to you fabricator types for some serious advice.
I work in a fabrication shop, and can bend, fit, weld, cut and destroy just about anything I want to.
Is it a doable thing to create a set of custom forward controls, using the existing hardware perches, and re-locating them on the sporty ??
I can lengthen the rods and such very easily.
The mount point will be the bottom section of the down tubes where the highway bar was bolted on...By creating a new bracket assembly, I can mount the factory hardware to the new bracket system, and miss the exhaust..( I think ) those babies will be stretched out roughly 38 inches from the seat position, diagonal to the lower down tube mount plate..
After careful examination laying on my back for 2 hours on the garage floor, I honestly think it is, and I'm willing to create a unique set of forward controls just for me....
If anyone has done this over the years, or has knowledge of this type of fabrication, please reply to this thread...( and If you dont, reply anyway..)
I'm not worried about a chrome finish (yet) as I can chrome it later, but need to create a workable, and durable solution...(no, I'm not buying another bike cause thats cheating)...
Your thoughts ?????...........g
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