A while ago I was discussing farkles with Diesel and remember him saying the best farkle he has ever had on his ST1300 was the Highway Blades and that he would recommend them to anyone
(can’t shut him up about them
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Now I had been looking at getting some of these for some time and thought
, stuff it I have the money and should get a set before bills have to be paid again and the money disappears... so I got a set
I ordered them from MCL and they arrived in a reasonable amount of time and packaged beautifully
(boxes inside of boxes with packing foam everywhere)
The Highway Blades have a stunning finish (nice shiney black) and are very straight forward to install (for the most part... I did make one mistake
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Anyway install went something like this…
1st Unpack the blades (top and bottom plate for left & right side), little bag of nuts & bolts and tip over bar covers. (They can’t be installed on the wrong side as they wont fit.)
**I forgot to take a photo of this
2nd Remove the original tip over bar cover (one bolt on the bottom)
3rd Grab a brush and give the area a bit of a clean.
4th Place the top plate of the blade over the tip over bar (they are grooved to fit to the bar)
5th Place the bottom plate in place the under the bar and screw the 2 bolts into it (the bottom plate is also grooved to fit the bar)
6th Thread the locking nuts onto the bottom of the bolt to lock the plates in place.
** This is where I stuffed up… I thought the bottom plate was just a tight fit to the bolt (it’s actually threaded like a nut) and I tried to pull the bolt through the hole by tightening the nut… the nut snapped the bottom of the bolt off
)
Anyway…
7th Carefully place the new tip over bar cover into place (it has little tabs that fit into grooves in the faring) and replace the original bolt to hold it in place.
8th Go for a ride