GL1000 Floorboards

[Gunny]

O.K. Guys, Gunny here (white walls) I purchased a set of floorboards for my 1000 from my local dealer. The manufacturer was Drag and Nothing wanted to marry-up correctly. I sent them back and purchased a set from JC Whitney for about the same price made by EMGO out of Atlanta. The attention to detail and craftsmanship of the Drag set was noticably better but the Emgo's seemed to fit a little better. I am not incredibly happy or impressed with them. It's important to note that I had a 1981 GL1100 that had the floorboards and everything seemed to be fine on that bike. I would like to go away from the stock pegs does anybody have any suggestions of a set that will fit and look nice?

-Gunny

[Zryder]

Hey Gunny , hows it going ? An alternative I personally was thinking is a wide foot peg . What I was going to do is get the floor bourds and changed my mind to get the wide foot pegs instead , and there are alot out there that look really great .


Later Zryder crosso

[Gunny]

I am all over that idea, what am I looking for?

Gunny

[Frenchy]

The problem with just replacing the foot pegs, is that your feet are still under you. I prefer the running boards, because my feet are out in front of me. I have a set of Tripplr A's on mine, & they're considerably better than Markland or Drag Spestialties!!

[BLACKGOLD]

the mounting points are the same on 1000 as 1100. I got a set out of jc whitney that I will sell when I finish the foward controls.I will take some pics as I dont really have a good pic of them other than this:

[Frenchy]

BLACKGOLD,
You'll have to post some pictures of the forward controls: As you make them, & once they're on.

[Brant]

Sabre cycle has some floorboards.
www.saber-cycle.com

[BLACKGOLD]

I guess it depends on what style you want. these are the ones from sabre cycle.



FYI, that set is driver only with heel/toe shifter for $360 US

[Frenchy]

Maybe I mis-understood... Are you going to make forward controls, or get a different after-market set up? I can't use an after market set up on Susan's because if the swing arm.

[Zryder]

I'm misunderstanding what you's meen by forward controls, This is forward controls , or are you all just talking about simple heel toe shifter as a ( forward control ) ???


Zryder

[BLACKGOLD]

I'm going to fabricate my own. I'm 6'6" tall so having the shifter and brake pedal in front of the heads will allow me to sit a lot more comfortably. I haven't been able to find any for goldwings so I figure its on me to figure it out. Besides most of the setups I've seen for other bikes are between $500 and $900. The Hell with that!!

[Zryder]

I'm with you Black Gold , and this is the outfit I'm going to fabficate for my GL this off season , the only thing is as you see here is just to get longer banjo bolts to go to our GL shifter peg .

( Z ) crosso