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No problems at all, Jay. The risers sit about 3 inches above the tank and is about 3 inches short of the gas cap. Cables do not bind but will have to be re-routed. The only thing that is borderline is the brake line. I had to slide it up about 1/2 inch through the holder on the fork brace. I really don't like it running behind the triple tree so I may opt for a longer one later. but it works fine the way it is.

I bought the risers from a HD dealer on ebay. They were brand new and I got them for $46 shipped to me ($39 + s&h). But keep in mind that you will have to have special bolts made to mount them with. The steel sleeves in the T's triple tree are about 1/16 inch too small for the 1/2 inch bolts to go through. If you had the right equipment you could also just reem out the steel sleeve enough to gain the extra diameter, but that steel sleeve is case-hardened steel and very tough.

It's posible that I may be able to get the bolts made for you. Mine were done for me by a friend who is a machinist. What he did was take a grade 8, 1/2 x 4inch 13 thread bolt and turn down all but 1 1/2 inches of it to a 7/16 inch diameter shaft and re-threaded it on the other end. I'll have to check with him to see if he would be interested in doing more of them and for how much.

All said and done my total cost was $60 ($14 for the bolts and machine work, and $46 for the risers). It was worth the aggravation to me because I was having trouble finding 6 inch aftermarket risers for under $200 elsewhere. The dealer I bought the risers from talked as if he would sell more for the same price if he has them available.

Stan

Skip, I just replaced my existing pics with more detailed versions from photobucket. Problem is I can't figure out how to downsize them for this post. I tried editing the pics size down to 50% through PhotoBucket and re-posting but it did not work. Any thing you can do from your end? If not, then do you know how I can do it from my end?

Stan

For some reason the images are huge when I pull this post up. Re-sizing my screen resolution does not help as you suggested before. It only made the whole post smaller than my monitor. I still had to rock back and forth to see all of the image. But that is not all bad I guess. The extra close up shows some great detail.

Stan

So, your saying that I need to upload the pic seperate from my Photobucket album from say " my pictures " on my harddrive, right?

Stan

Here is one of the links for the special stud bolts. Scroll down to bottom of page, they are next to last item. These are 10mm shanked to fit Kawasaki's and the Hondas are 12mm, but I think they should work just fine. At worse you might want to wrap a litttle bit of foil duct tape around the shanks to build them up a little. I figure that if they are strong enough for Kawasaki aplications, then they should also be for the Honda. This company makes a lot of special accessories for bikes and have some of the lowest priced risers I have found for the quality. Be sure to check out their other items while there.

209.15.36.61/swcart/shop.cgi/page=partskawhandle.htm/SID=1141168520.29749

This is also another source for them.
www.thundermfg.com/store/index.php?action=item&id=163&prevaction=search&previd=&prevstart=0

Stan

Lou, as promised here is the source I bought my risers from. They are buy it now for $45 but he sometimes will do a starting bid at $39 and you may win them at that price. Also, about 2 posts up from this one are the the sources for the ready made bolts. Good luck on your project also.
search.stores.ebay.com/KC...39QQsofpZ0

Stan