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Ive been looking at this board weekly for 6 mths, it's time I said hi to everyone.
I bought my SM 3/06. Learned how to ride in front of the dealership (IM 32yrs old 6ft. tall and heavily tattoo'd 2 sleeves, chest neck and head have their share) I looked more the part of some stereotypical Badass Biker than anyone else in there on multiple visits and was slightly embarrased)Salesman gave me the 5 min crash course and away I went on my 25 mile ride home....talk about a white knuckle workout!!!
Over the past 6mths 5300 miles and THANKS TO THIS BOARD I was able to gut my stock pipes (still didnt like the sound)and pull the snorkel. shortly after rejet the carbs w/ epco pipes from newspeedmaser, and did the homemade AI removal.
Does anyone have any thoughts on mounting a light bar with the turn signals mounted on top. I like the bar (not all the lights). Would the jc whitney bar #01zx1176 and the mounting clamps #3zx019963r get this going? I havent seen it done?
Wanting to get started on the stealth wiring project, want to move signals at same time.

Thanks guys

Gday mate. It's probably a bit late to say welcome to the board, so welcome to the talkative part of it.

I gotta say I did the same thing back in the day - bought a bike and then asked the salesman "OK, now how does it work?". I'm sure you've learned a lot in the last six months of riding, but I gotta say that after 20 years of riding I can really advise you to take an advanced riders course. There's skills they can teach you that no amount of street time will offer and they might save your life sometime. Besides with the way you look it'd be fun to scare the newbies on the training course.

As for the light bar, those bars do with with a bit of minor modification. From memory the holes're too small and slightly off-centre - easy fixed with a power drill and bit of paint to stop it rusting. You'll also find that many of them have very thin chrome (so don't polish it too hard) and are a bit off-centre (measure things before you drill the holes to fix this). There's no reason you couldn't put the turn signals on it instead of driving lights - the wiring for them runs through the headlight bucket so just unplug them from the handlebar harness and wire them in. I'd be tempted to buy something a little more attractive than the standard pumpkins, something like kuryakyn's silver bullets perhaps. If you do use the pumpkins fit the lenses upside-down so the drain hole in the edge is still at the bottom. You can find my website in my signature, there's info there that might help you out.

I have the lightbar from JC Whitney and 5" lights. If you like this, PM me your email address and I will send you my write-up.

I think I'm going to have to order that JC Whitney light bar unless there's a better solution...

It's for a Shadow. They used to include the P-clamps but do not anymore. Smaller lights will give a wider look, obviously. Here's the part numbers:

Bar - 01ZX1176W
P Clamps - ZX019963R
Lights (5" - 55W) - 88ZX8602P

Use the link below and plug these numbers in the search box.
http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/StoreCatalogDisplay/c-10111/s-10101

I wrote the whole thing up and you can download that doc here:
http://storeandserve.com/download/440517/Project_-_Lightbar.doc.html

Well done Phil! Thank you.

what happened to the lites you already have onthere?

Erwin, I was thinking the light bar might look better than the jury-rig clamps I'm using now. Maybe a little winter project...

I dont know about you but I kind of like brents lite bar just a little better than mine. I like the spacing better on his and the chrome bar better on the triumph one.Like that JC Whitney one also.