I eventually got round to getting the last of my diamond black foot-pegs.
I wanted to have the rear pegs matching the front but wasn't too sure whether I wanted to have the back and rear ones the same diameter. As the large diameter ones cost just over £70, I have been putting off buying them for months now. They are one of the few HD bolt-on extras that I prefer over almost every other after-market pegs and grips. Harley seem to think that all we want to stick on to our bikes are blingy chrome things.
So, having finally made my mind up, I went down to West-coast to pick them up, having ordered them last weekend.
Twenty minutes later (getting the "ping-f*cks" off was a real pain and I had to file down the points on my circlip pliers) and I'm now absolutely sure I made the right decision. The wider diameter pegs look much more substantial and I'm certain that they'll go really well with my front end when, one day I get round to swapping that for a wider, beefier and all-round badder one!
WCHD are having their open day today. This is the annual HD "let's show off our next year's bikes and see if we can sucker anyone into buying", fest of bikes and goodies. Clyde Valley hog are doing their usual BBQ so I may just go back and pig out on bikes and burgers.
P.S. I did go back down but wasn't too impressed with the new look 2011 range. As far as I can see, all the MoCo has done is tart up the existing models by adding lots of expensive and IMO unnecessary extras, like ABS and more electronic things to go wrong. (All the things I'm in the process of trying to remove.) Then they can bump up the price! There were a couple of second hand bikes which have been added to. I hesitate to use the word customised as only one of them, a night train, was what I would think of as a custom. The other just had a load of, "out the Harley catalogue", bolt on extras bolted on. Still, I did enjoy just looking and dreaming and trying to get ideas for things to do to my bike.
One thing I did buy, as I hadn't paid as much as I thought for the pegs, was a set of black covers for the rear spindle nuts. Looks much better and really shows me up as a hypocrite for buy bolt-on Harley extras.
So, having finally made my mind up, I went down to West-coast to pick them up, having ordered them last weekend.
Twenty minutes later (getting the "ping-f*cks" off was a real pain and I had to file down the points on my circlip pliers) and I'm now absolutely sure I made the right decision. The wider diameter pegs look much more substantial and I'm certain that they'll go really well with my front end when, one day I get round to swapping that for a wider, beefier and all-round badder one!
WCHD are having their open day today. This is the annual HD "let's show off our next year's bikes and see if we can sucker anyone into buying", fest of bikes and goodies. Clyde Valley hog are doing their usual BBQ so I may just go back and pig out on bikes and burgers.
P.S. I did go back down but wasn't too impressed with the new look 2011 range. As far as I can see, all the MoCo has done is tart up the existing models by adding lots of expensive and IMO unnecessary extras, like ABS and more electronic things to go wrong. (All the things I'm in the process of trying to remove.) Then they can bump up the price! There were a couple of second hand bikes which have been added to. I hesitate to use the word customised as only one of them, a night train, was what I would think of as a custom. The other just had a load of, "out the Harley catalogue", bolt on extras bolted on. Still, I did enjoy just looking and dreaming and trying to get ideas for things to do to my bike.
One thing I did buy, as I hadn't paid as much as I thought for the pegs, was a set of black covers for the rear spindle nuts. Looks much better and really shows me up as a hypocrite for buy bolt-on Harley extras.
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