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Posted by Slider
- December 14, 2012, 13:31:49 PMGotta throw my 2 cents in. Hope that it is not a day late and a dollar short.
I work with a couple of guys that ride Vulcans. One is an 800 Classic and the other is a 900 Custom. For both bikes, I noted that the part of the frame with the foot peg mounts was identical to my 800 Vulcan Drifter, once you take the mount cover off. I installed Kuryakyn boards with the splined adapters. I needed to tweak them a little to get the splined adapters to be completely rigid against the frame, but they are very workable. They cost a bit more, but I was trying to get passenger boards to match my front boards. I did not get a exact match, but it is pretty close. Between the Kuryakyn boards and the Corbin dual seat, I am fairly satisfied with the mods, including the new look.
Slider
Posted by pcarrell
- December 07, 2012, 22:11:01 PMI'm not a "give a man a fish" kinda guy, but I'll teach you to fish! 
Posted by CDNRatMan
- December 07, 2012, 21:44:41 PMok can not out do you....I surrender.....
now give up your floor boards for me..........
Posted by pcarrell
- December 07, 2012, 21:07:22 PMI lived in Cheyenne, WO for a while, and it gets cold in the winter there. One night, admittedly with wind chill, it got down to -75F........let me tell ya what, THAT'S CHILLY!
I know cold!
Posted by CDNRatMan
- December 07, 2012, 20:55:21 PMlol I would love to see some of you out on the ice for a day in -40* weather........ 
but enough about my clothing......
Posted by pcarrell
- December 07, 2012, 20:52:46 PM......if only you'd wear them..........
Posted by CDNRatMan
- December 07, 2012, 20:42:19 PMyou guys are hung up on clothing...must be a thing with you all down south. My seal skin pants and coats are more then warm enough in all weather..........
Posted by pcarrell
- December 07, 2012, 20:26:54 PMQuote from: Drift1 on December 07, 2012, 20:23:24 PMForget that....lets work of fabricating some clothes!....let's work on the next one....fabrication of that snow shovel,so your not whistling why you work
Posted by pcarrell
- December 07, 2012, 20:25:21 PMThis is the link to the boards I used: http://www.jcwhitney.com/emgo-universal-highway-floorboard/p2006697.jcwx?filterid=c14701u0j3 (They've gone up a bit in price sice I bought them) They are aluminum, so you could paint them black or have them anodized (powder coating wont stick). I dressed mine up with some leather trim, but used the stock mounting points with my custom brackets. http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Drifter/Pipes.jpg
At the very least, it's cheap enough that you could try it and if you want to later invest in something more you'll know if it's worth the investment. Those $200+ dollar ones do look nice though.
Posted by Drift1
- December 07, 2012, 20:23:24 PMThink PC's rout is the way to go,RATMAN.That's easy enough to do,plus Realy the only real cost your looking at is the floor boards...now that you have that fabrication solved let's work on the next one....fabrication of that snow shovel,so your not whistling why you work
Posted by CDNRatMan
- December 07, 2012, 19:46:49 PMwell here is a thought, for all oyu 1500 riders who have the solo seats and ride alone take of you rear floor borads and mounting hardware and send it to me to adapt for my 800....
$200.00 for them does sound like a lot, so it is somehting I will wait till I win the lottery as I have removed 3 people from my list of winners I will have more then enough money to spend on the boards......
Posted by 49Reo
- December 07, 2012, 19:43:33 PMForget the floorboards, you sitting on the bike makes it look so much different than the norm! Save the money, man!!!
Regards and such,
49Reo
Posted by pcarrell
- December 07, 2012, 19:39:37 PM$200+ dollars seems like a lot to spend for something used so seldom.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- December 07, 2012, 19:29:49 PMtHanks Phil, this is just an idea right now because I normally ride alone, so it is not ahuge issue, but I just think it would make the bike look so much different then the norm. Starting this weekend on my lift for the 800, and going to be in the back room with an angle grinder and chop saw to do the work. I'll have to post pic's for 49 to follow along.....
Posted by pcarrell
- December 07, 2012, 19:20:59 PMYou know, I don't have a lot of metal shop type tools available to me either, but I've found you can do a lot with a hand held angle grinder, a few good grinding disks and a few good cut off disks. I made new custom mounts for some generic floorboards using just those tools, and they've been on the bike for 4 years now with not a single issue. I used 1/4" Aluminum bar stock, shaped into a "T" shape with my $30 handheld grinder, then drilled a couple holes, added a couple bolts and some $50 generic highway bar mounted floorboards that I just left the back half of the bar clamp off of. A little black paint (that needs touched up after 4 years of use now), and that's it. I don't have $75 wrapped up in the project, and they're strong enough I can stand all of my weight on just one of them and they don't move a bit. And yes, they fold up.
Here's a link so you can see what I did: http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Drifter/Passenger%20Floorboard%20Brackets/IMG_2467.jpg
Something lick this may open up a lot more possibilities for you........food for thought.