Front Crash Bars - You won't believe this!

[Bull Durham]

I bought my 2005 last fall. It's been years since I've been around a Nomad, last one I was around was about 10 years ago, the '99 model. Anyway, the guy I bought it from never did anything to the bike, kept it stock except he put a Mustang seat on right away and probably the Kuryakyn Foot pegs, unless they come stock, I don't know.

Something never looked right to me, had a nagging thought in the back of my head that something was wrong when I looked at my bike, when looking at the front crash bars on the bike. Thought they looked kinda weird, was never impressed with them. Could never figure out what was bugging me.

So tonight, I was looking at the lowers sold by Xncrman in the Vendors section of KawaNow, wondering if I should get a pair. I've looked at them before, but wasn't sure if they would fit my bars as mine narrow towards the top of the bike. Reread all the messages on his topic, say's they fit all nomads, 1500 and 1600's.

Went out and looked at my bike, came back in and tried finding some of your signature pics where I could see the crash bars well. Was kinda confusing, as I see some people have a one piece crash bar on their bike that runs all the way across the radiator, others have a two piece like mine, bolts on each side, then some of the 'green / green' 1999's have nice, big, exaggerated bars, which I like and am more used to, like my crash bars from the '70's.

Go back and look at my bike and realize the crash bars are upside down and on the wrong side of the bike! What the hell?!! I take them off and put them on the right side, correctly. Now I'm pissed. I have some pics I got from the previous owner, I'm looking at them and see they have always been on backwards / upside down. You think the Dealership put them on that way? In fact, the one pic in my sig line is from the previous owner, just the bike pic.

I'm used to aggressively riding twisties and cornering, and enjoy scraping my floor boards often. Just the way I like to ride. So now when I put the crash bars on the correct way, the bottoms are now the tops, and I've been scraping my crash bars too, besides my floor boards!

Now it's driving me nuts as I've got all these road rash scrapes showing on the top.

Poop. Guess I'm going to have to be looking for new crash bars in the future, or just bring a big wrench down to Maggie Valley for those midnight specials!!
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Anyone ever have the dealerships do something stupid to your bikes?