Wife's Cougar Mod (passenger)

I Love the other mods for the passenger floorboards they have been great idea's!

I was even making a set until I talked with GunnyButch and had him shoot me

so photos and with the new conversion to trike I can not have them in that area.

Finding Afterwords that my wife needs more forward leg

room anyways do to an old injury. she needs to stretch them

while riding once in a while. so going down-word

will not make her happy....

After saying that.. This is what I came up with on

my proto type.

I made my templates out of Aluminum (easier cutting and drilling)

In this proto type I used the aluminum that I had

laying around. the angle was 2 inch. ( will go to 1" Steel)

But you must use a 1 inch die aluminum rod for

the pegs to bolt on perfect (peg clamp).

I will be making the bottom support out of steel

painted black, the round aluminum will be polished like chrome

when I am done The length now on the rod is at 6 inches long.

Just want to make sure the height requirement before I cut to the

right size and round the top.

I also used the same Kuryakyn Pegs as I use for the front (7980 Longhorn Dually 1" clamp)

I got to thinking of Dons Center Stand, and bolted to the same spot

he did. also adding two large hose clamp on each side of that helped as

well for even more support to the bikes frame on the underside.

Anyways , shoot away with any comments you have so I can learn

and maybe even make this better.

Not having the center stand anymore, I am thinking that even if you

still had one on there you could use longer bolts and still be able to

attach at the same point.

Here are some pics..

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I have a few other idea's and I will Post when this project is complete

If it seems to be a winner I will to a write-up on the dimensions of it .

That looks like a wreck waiting to happen. The lean angle of the machine has just been cut down severely.

The angle barley sticks out though.

Looking at some of the other stuff on

the bike looks as if it would hit first.

The bike is being triked next week anyways.

so no angle problem there.

I will look much better when finished as well

I should have waited to post *lol*

BUT this is what I need to hear..keep them coming

Jeff

Cougar,it looks good...

I think Diamond R makes a set of flip out passenger pegs for the 2nd Gens.

I working on making something similar to go on our 1st Gen...

Jeff,

That is a very good start. Can the angle iron be shortened so it doesn't extend beyond the frame or just short of the exhaust header? Then put a 90 degree bend on the round stock and weld it to the inside of the angle iron. That way all you would see is the round stock curving up from under the exhaust. Once it was fabricated you could always have it chromed.

Ok guys.. I need to take a better angle picture..

If I look straight down from the top of the bike, the

whole thing sticks out only 1.5 inches. now remember

I will be using 1 inch steel. what is on there now is

2 inch alm angle.

So end result is 1.5 past the header , heck I think there

is stuff out farther then that on the bike now.

AND only 1 inch below the frame of the bike..

the 1 inch steel angle will be black and not much there.

the other part will be polished alm. (pretty) ~S~

Just for the heck of it.. how many of you lean that far anyways? Ummmm

my goodness. maybe I did when I was younger!

Gunny. Can I Bend 1 inch round aluminum?

Now ya got me thinking.. great idea. shorter angle stock

bend coming around and up past the header. Ummmm

As far as the chrome part I can polish this as well to look like chrome.

But your saying have metal bent and welded I think.

Dan, yes I looked at Diamond a couple years ago.

but I ask them about the hight. I is higher then

the stock passenger board but will not go down-word

If they did I would have got them a long time ago.

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Interesting idea. That would be okay for a trike, but I could never use it. I have scrapes on my kickstand.

I've been trying to come up with a way to mount some pegs in almost that exact spot. I'm looking at the frame member that goes in front of the exhaust Y and trying to figure out how to mount something to that, but don't really have anything yet.

Holy Crap... scrapping the kick stand? wowzer!

I scraped my engine guards once................when I dropped the bike.

Yeah, wouldn't these LEANER'S hit the driver floorboards

and the crash guards if they lean this much?

I love this learning stuff!

Lynn, I will look in that spot today , see what I find.

Yeah, if I scrape the kickstand up very much more, the kick down lever is going to fall off of it. Anything that stands proud of the exhaust pipes is in a bad place.

I'd like to put some footpegs right about where the horn is on the right side. I don't think that side would be too difficult. I can always relocate the horn. But I can't figure out how to get one in the same spot on the left side.

I like the Idea, I also didn`t read all the other posts, so this Idea may have allready been mentioned, but how about using round stock all the way instead of it welded to the angle, and just weld some tabs on the round stock to fasten to the brackets under the bike??

Again sorry if this has been brought up, too lazy to read all the posts..

K

AS I understand it your wife needs to straighten her legs out more than the floor boards allow. What about trying to mount something to the existing passenger floor board mount (passenger floorboard to frame)that extends foward then has a flip out dually peg ...this would solve all the lean angle issues. and I think you could make it look really good if you put your creative mind to it.

I would probably clamp something underneath or use longer bolts to attach it with the bolts that attach the floor board to the bike, go out to avoid the side cover and exahaust then up where you need them to be. Maybe even drill into those mounts to attach something to them.

Hell if it was painted black to extend to the position you wanted then attach a set of chrome foot pegs on it, I do not think it would look bad if you had a good paint job on it.

I like others here do not like the decrease lean angle...if you have never scraped the ground in a turn...you will be surprized and with that sticking out the side... it could happen easy. Let me tell you the first time I heard part of my bike scrap the ground , there was a pucker factor I had to deal with cause I was not expecting it at all. I really did not think I was that low, nor was I trying to get down that low.

Good concept you have there...I just think you may be causing some unintentional consiquenses.

Kbay,

Thats an Excellent Idea. I have to find out

how or were to bend solid round steel.

OR

I wonder if I could use something like a conduit?

The wife came home from work and the angle,

distance and resting area is in right location now.

Now I go from there with the Ideas and more modifications.

CMIK,

I will not have lean problem as the bike is being triked in the

next week or so.. I also did try and make brackets, even have

and extra set of OEM passenger floorboards that I was going to

hack and cut up for one of my projects. come to find out after

Gunny sent me some picture. the new trike body wraps right

around the floorboard. so that idea is out until I can see it

visually on my own bike one day. You guys are certainly coming

up with some GREAT idea''s though.

Jeff

Just for the heck of it.. how many of you lean that far anyways

Holy Cow FLB Sheesh.. You should get an award for that kinda

leaning! how do you keep from sliding the rear around leaning

that far? I would not be brave enough to lean that far!

A little confused I work in the welding industry, just how do you weld aluminum to steel?

A little confused I work in the welding industry, just how do you weld aluminum to steel?

JB weld?

Wow, that muffler picture is great! And he does that on a car tire.

I do get a kick out of watching other people's heads turn when they hear the awful noise when I touch down in a corner.

A little confused I work in the welding industry, just how do you weld aluminum to steel?

Maybe weld was a poor choice of words, it seems to me there would be some means of bonding the two metals though. That's why you guys make the big bucks.

Jeff, Can your source for the round stock bend it to the angle you need? It is certainly something that falls into the "do not attempt this at home" without the right equipment.

Yep, your right. and I am thinking l Like that idea.

Get 1" Round Steel have it bent perfect! kinda like a "U" shape.

Then have a steel square flat pad welded to the center

for the bolt on.

Then after all is good. (HAVE IT CHROMED)

At least I have my proto-type to get the right measurements from now

for a machinist to help me out.

Jeff