thing is if you remove the throttle boss you got a gap and gaping hole in its place. shuda come with a spacer if you want to ride without. my hands are XL and feel the TB digging in the hand, not used to it, will try it some more see if i do. the widow set certainly adds to looks but footpegs are spread bit wide if your lane splitting. time will tell i guess.

perhaps coz the grips came with the TB and not bought seperately. there was an option to get the grips without the TB.

with TB http://www.cruisercustomizing.com/premium-widow-grips-w-throttle-boss-harley-davidson-models-w-dual-cable-throttle-control-82-newer/part/KY-6270

replacement cap http://www.cruisercustomizing.com/widow-throttle-boss-and-replacement-end-caps-fits-clutch-grip-throttle-grip-wo-throttle-boss/part/KY-6277

yes you wuda thought it would come together.

Nice work! i like the flush mount caps. Do you have much trouble popping them up if your hands are a little greasy/oily/wet?

Great looking bike Volvi. I do like the Night train!!!

Couple of new toys to play with:

Volvi ... how have you found the heal rest foot pegs so far ... is the jury still out or do you think you will keep them .

A couple of handy accessories there as well .

Tim .

jury is still out TJ, having issues with shotgun shock atm so havent been able to ride much on them, will give the rundown on the shock when all sorted.

definitely dont like the throttle boss on day to day riding, took it off. grip feels great tho, especially after going on my Hayabusa which grips are alot smaller diam.

widow gear change too small can get by with it but needs to be bit longer, have something in mind.

I still cant give you the full write up on the shock as it aint installed yet. But this much I can say the mob in NSW (I wont name them) kinda piss farted me around with no result (whos supposed to handle the warranty for JD), personally I dont think theyre properly set up to handle these goods and may place them a low priority as they have their own work to do. After 3 weeks of waiting with no result (they initially promised me a 1 week turnaround) I contacted JD saying there was no progress and my greatest fear is they will return the unit as a ok only to still find it not working correctly after getting my mechanic to install it yet again. JD without hesitation promised to send me off a replacement unit in the morning, which he kindly did. Arrived 8 days later at no charge. I got to hand it to the bloke he stands by his product and puts his money where his mouth is. I also note he now offers a LIFETIME WARRANTY on his product, you cant go wrong with that. So I am plugging JD's operation Shotgun Shock he deserves it. It will be a little while yet before I can install the unit as Im unavailable for a short while.

Meanwhile the NSW mob informed me (after 4 weeks) that both shock and compressor checks out a ok and must be the harness that I left on the bike, at least so they say. But we fully checked the harness and all contacts at the time and all power was feeding through as should be. So I havent a fukin clue but I dont fully trust what the mob up north says, but now have a new unit so now should definately be a ok. Will keep you updated...and a big Thanks to JD for his prompt and excellent customer service.

Sorry to hear about the dramas mate. I'm waiting on a set of shocks from JD, and from all the headaches I've had from having places doing the work I didn't have time for on my bike, I'm now doing everything on my bike no matter how long I have to wait till I get around to it. Now I don't have to listen to bullshit lies about why they charge so much or how things damaged wasn't their fault but just appeared there some how

amd ill second that about JD, he definitely goes out of the way to keep his customers happy

And your switches should be right now as well.

all going in tomorrow finally so will give the report a short while thereafter. been off the train about 6 weeks now, me missing it, but the busa got a good thrashing in tassy.

Far out mate that's one hell of a stuff around. Be like riding a new bike by the time you get it back

your not wrong there squid. well Im back and the unit is in. with the way things were going i also took the stock shocks with me in case in case the brand new unit wont work for some reason which at that point id truly give up, rip the whole fuker out put stocks back on and syonara to air ride. well that did not happen.....almost but not quite.

The biggest wank is the fitting of the compressor and trying to make sure its in its right position so theres clearance for the shock body below that. well I dont know if the comp. changed since the last unit but the previous one would go all the way to the oil line and you can rotate its head a bit upwards but not this one the air nozzle coming outa the head prevents any rotation upward. not sure if they changed position. either way it was a matter of getting the comp.hi up as possible and flat so theres no interference to shock body. eventually with about 2 mm clearance all was assembled. all plugs attached now time to lift those buttons and raise the rear. mech wouldnt have a bar of touching them buttons he was almost as afraid as I was. So I did.....with a big sigh of relief the rear was raising, raising and raising, the fukin switch when off wouldnt stop the power feeding thru and comp.running till the only thing to do was pull the fuse out to stop it. WTF were all looking at one another!!! what fukin now! switches were new, all was new. turns out young mech put the relay in a nice recess at the back behind the oil tank only prob as rear was moving it was crushing the fukin relay and that caused the prob. fuk me dead what next? put the older relay in and all seemed to work fine, power stopped when released. didnt want to fuk around with it too much, bike was up, thats it done let me get the fuk outa here. so whats the damage?....$495, four ninety whatttttt? u gotta be kidding? Nah, how many hours have we all spent on it, you want me to pay for it says boss. I says but hey be reasonable bla bla. bottom line ATM $400 cash, not to mention previous $100, so all up $5fukin undred. for a 500 unit. oh well now its a new 1200 unit i guess. but still not happy Jane! but gotta wear it. bottom line they were cowboys and should never have been offered to do the job in the first place. but i chose them now i pay them, so much for the initial $90 price. cheap aint always cheap in the end.

give a report on the shock? ask me in a few months after this frikkin nightmare is but a faded dream. I cant fault JD but perhaps the design or installation of compressor aint what it should be. will be interesting to hear from others what comments they may have on the installation in theyre night train.

Holy shit mate, sounds like a nightmare. For those reasons I don't let even HD touch my bike any more. I do everything myself. I use to pay others so I had more free time on my days off but not anymore.

I will be fitting my shotgun shocks and progressive front end this break, I'll let you know how I go

Some pics from today, Shotgun Shock at various stages. Apologies if bit repetative.

Looks great Volvi. Looks like you got nice weather down there too. How you going with the shocks so far? Hey are those 17" or 18" rear rims? Those solid chrome rims always look like 18"

frikkin hot, 32 out there and almost 7pm. hate the heat. still trying to find that best spot on the shocks but after adjusting I noticed if you sit up and down on the bike, bounce it with your bum your able to feel just how soft or hard you may have adjusted to, so that helps a bit to but still trying to pin down that sweet spot. rear size? I think its 17 but sure looks more with fender raised otherwise Im frankly not sure.

Wow I never thought it got that kind of heat down there, just chuck a nice pack in your helmut. I've randomly come across good spots while riding but I'm always having fun playing around with it and keep losing it. Though that link you have me painted a good picture in my head on exactly what it's doing with every flick of a switch, which has helped me heaps when adjusting. I have to say with all the different qualitys in roads (up here it changes every 100m) I don't think with any shock there's a perfect spot for it all. But I've definitely found that rear end soaking up a hell of a lot of bumps while the front end is taking some hard hits, so maybe we are setting out expectations a little too high? Though I do read most take awhile to get use to working out adjusting it to a good spot at first.

Yeah I'm pretty positive yours is 17. I've always wanted an 18x6 solid rear rim, or close to solid as possable. It sucks all after market rims come in 18x5.5

Sorry to hear of your Shotgun troubles Volvi...

I picked up mine through the Brisbane dealer the other week.... they said bout 4hrs install.... had it done in 2! so picked up some other kit while i was there.  Only 500 klm on them so far... but enjoyin the ride bigtime.

The run to Cains in May will be the testa...