Hey Tad,
Don't knot your brain up like that bro! You're going to give yourself a hemmaroi..., a hemorrhag..., aw crap, a brain fart!!
Here some measurements: with Jim's Spacers and stock BA risers, it's 3" to the middle of the bars from the top of the tree. After installing the buckhorns, I added 4" to the clutch cable (Barnett - $70 rush shipped) and brake line ($43 - local shop) and everything routes nicely with proper slack. The stock (right now) throttle cables have been re-routed along the right side of the backbone and have plenty of slack. The wiring harnesses to each control have about an inch of slack.
Now I have to pull it all apart again to polish up the spacers as Fryguy's polished risers way too nice not to....
I think if you go with Speedy risers and the buckhorns, you are going to love it!
Forgot something.... if you go with the longer (4") cables/lines now, even if you don't go with the buckhorns, they will just bow out a bit more. Won't look bad at all. If you do eventually go with the buckhorns, you will have a very easy swapout and not have re-do anything.
btw, here's a pic of the Barnett clutch cable. It is one thick cable compared to stock! Oh yeah, that big orange thing in the middle? Soon to be relocated to the light bar...
