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Puddle Jumper
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Oakdale MN | Been working on the bike and finally figured out how I can do it.  |
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Cruiser
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Visionary
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | WHY!!! |
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Visionary
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| Not my cup of tea. Post pics when you have them on.
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Iron Butt
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Southeast Iowa | I'm sure it will look....ah...er...hum.......unique. This will be the first Vision that I know of with apes and I can't wait to see the results. Please post pics when complete. |
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Iron Butt
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Richmond, Virginia | Better you then me. However I do want a photo so I can pass it around. The physics of a front end heavy bike combined with low center of gravity added to ape hangers will be very difficult to steer and maneuver. Anyone who knows physics will concur, so this
I gotta see. BTW do you already have a new Vision on order? LOL |
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Visionary
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Pittsburgh, PA | will that effect the cruise control and other electronics which the wires will be shorter to reach the bars? or did you figure out how to lengthen that as well? I like to see it.. im be VERY curious to see how the lines of the bikes and flow with the bars.. Like it if looks out of place or not.. Of course looks are a matter of opinion. I like anything different, thats why i have a vision...! |
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Tourer
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20 miles west of Chicago. | When you do this, could you please post the details of how you lengthen the wiring going to the controls? I'm hoping that Someone (Santa Rosa V-Twin has been talking about it for quite a while now...) will eventually come out with pull-back bars for the Vision and if and when this happens I'm anticipating having to perhaps get longer brake and clutch hoses and throttle cables and extending the wiring. Thought there might be enough slack in the cables, the wiring looks pretty tight. |
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Cruiser
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Prescott, Az | donetracey - 2010-02-28 10:13 PM
WHY!!!
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Tourer
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Gettysburg, 2008 Tour Premium | Never been much of a joiner (I have a vision), or payed much attention to group think. I am old enough to have been around the first time apes had some popularity. Never understood them then and too old now to care. Your bike, your choice, go for it!!!!!!!! |
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Puddle Jumper
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Oakdale MN | It is actually suprising if you take the stock bars off and put them flat on a bench they have almost 14" of length to the bars that comes straight back I plan on being able to rotate the bars and they will go vertical 15" and all stock legth wires and lines will work.. I just modified a set of risers and clamps I had sitting here from my Harley days. I will post pictures of the bike with the bars back on it when the bars are back from the powder coater. and at the same time I will post pictures of the hiway peg brackets I made hat I think came out very nice and will be back from powder coater at the same time. |
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Tourer
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Goldsboro, NC | MY Vision already has apes.... great big apes... with helmets
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Tourer
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Albuquerque, NM | Trying to picture this mod in my mind and I see swapping the 14" of pullback for 14" of vertical height will require the rider to stretch an additional 14" forward and 14" upward. Don't sound too
comforable to me but to each his own. |
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Tourer
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Dallas, Texas | I am still working on 'why', not that my wonder/opinion matters much. Apes on a Vision, seems to me, to be the same as apes on a Gold Wing. Maybe a better fit on other Victory models, but not a Vision. imho...but to each his own. |
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Visionary
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | It astounds me that people would go to the top of the heap with a Vision, and then modify it to look like a Harley.....
Cycle Canda recently had photos of a guy with a Victory that he had heavily modified to look exactly like a Harley Street Glide. Pitiful. |
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Tourer
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| trailbarge - 2010-03-01 11:30 AM
MY Vision already has apes.... great big apes... with helmets
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Tourer
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Simi Valley, CA | Why would anybody do this? |
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Albuquerque, NM | rcvision,
Looks like your getting alot of flak on this one cuz I don't think you've really thought it out. The attached crude pic of a ness vision with the apes approx. in the position of your intended mod. Sure you wouldn't need longer cables but your grips would be up by the windshield. Imagine where
your seating position would be. Apes would have to be up as high as you want but you'll need the same if not more that 14" of pullback on the bars. You would obviously need longer cables.
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Tourer
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seattle, wa | To each his own. No need to criticize. I say go for it. |
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Puddle Jumper
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| I also would like to see some pics. Go for it!
Edited by rbarrera1 2010-03-01 8:46 PM
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Iron Butt
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Central New York | Come on guys! Tell me you haven't seen a Caddy with a jacked front end and spinner hub caps. |
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Visionary
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | glighto11 - 2010-03-01 5:48 PM Come on guys! Tell me you haven't seen a Caddy with a jacked front end and spinner hub caps. And again: WHY? |
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Tourer
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Goldsboro, NC | Give the guy a chance....
Apes are not my style, either... but let the guy do what he wants a see what becomes of it. The ribbing is on its way over the top.
Consider it basic research. Other good stuff could come of it. I, for one, am 6' 4" and weigh 330 lbs. In a tight turn (figure eight, U-turn) I can get a bit jammed up. I wouldn't go ape, but his method could show a way to get the handlebars 2-4 inches higher for big bears like me. That, I might take advantage of.
Some people think that fewer lights are "cool". Most posts around here try to christmas tree our bikes. It's a personal thing. |
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Puddle Jumper
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Oakdale MN | I knew I would shake things up a bit but Wow. I live life this way Do it the way you want to its to short to worry about what the other guy is doing.
I have built many bikes for people and of course did not agree with some of the things they did but well if they like it more power to them. I look at this the same way I love my Vision but hate the riding position thats just me and I'm ok with so I will make it the way I want. I may find out the first set I made don't work that well once the snow is gone and I am out on the road no big deal I'll respec the bars and get new ones bent up. The big thing in this is it is not that hard to get a riser set up that will work.
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Cruiser
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Salinas, Ca. | rcvision - 2010-03-02 10:49 AM
Do it the way you want to its to short to worry about what the other guy is doing.
I second that! |
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Visionary
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Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | Don't get me wrong, guys. I support ALL the efforts you make to create your own 'statement' - after all (and I have said this before) - the more you modify your Visions, the more 'custom' my mostly STOCK Vision looks !!!!
I have modified EVERY ONE of my 21 bikes - including making a dirt bike out of a Honda Street Twin 160 back in the 60's. And many may not have agreed with MY modifications over the years.
I just like to 'tease' - you know - poke 'ya in the ribs to see what you're really thinkin'..... keep up ALL your efforts! |
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Puddle Jumper
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Oakdale MN | Agreed and it's all in good fun and conversation. I'd sit back and down a beer with anyone i've chatted with on this site. Lord knows we are all different and have are bikes for different reasons. Mine I'm a biker true to heart with a colors on my back and ride in a pack of Harley's (up front of course) no actually I run tail gunner and also have the throttle to get to the front and stop the pack if there is a problem. |
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Visionary
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San Antonio, TX | Personalty, I am looking forward to some pictures of this Vision with the Apes.
Ride on and have fun! |
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Cruiser
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Salinas, Ca. | rcvision - 2010-03-02 2:19 PM
Agreed and it's all in good fun and conversation. I'd sit back and down a beer with anyone i've chatted with on this site. Lord knows we are all different and have are bikes for different reasons. Mine I'm a biker true to heart with a colors on my back and ride in a pack of Harley's (up front of course) no actually I run tail gunner and also have the throttle to get to the front and stop the pack if there is a problem.
Huh, we have ALOT in common my friend! |
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Puddle Jumper
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| I thiird that! |
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