Road Glide Riser Pin (2015-2018)

When Factory 47 first designed the Signature handle bar for 2015 Road Glides we noticed three new things about the riser. The first thing was it now was standard for the Road Glide to have 1-1/4" handle bars and riser diameter, second was the hole for the wires on the handle bar and riser where now forward and not facing down. But last we noticed that there is now a pin in the riser. This pin as you know if you are reading this article started to become an issue, for one you can not adjust your handle bars up or down so you are stuck with a standard position. Second we assumed it was a new safety feature so we did not want to pull it out. So we designed our signature handle bar with a slot on the right side of the handle bar. We took advantage of the pin and we used it as a stop so when you are setting up your Signature handle bar if you go to far forward it stops you before you hit the fairing or if you go to far back it stops you before it hits the tank. You wouldn't notice this installing the handle bar until you where all done and turned the bike and hit something. This was a great solution and will always work for the standard or special Road Glides. 95 percent of our orders for Signature handle bars are those models but we do occasionally get an order for a CVO or Ultra Road Glide, and this is where we ran into another issue. We have no explanation why but Harley Davidson decided to put the pin on the other side of the riser for those models, it is the exact same riser only the pin is on the other side. Now a simple solution would have been to put another hole on the other side until we found out what the pin was for. The Road Glide riser pin is not a safety pin as we assumed it is only a pin to speed up production so when they are assembling the Road Glide they always know where to place the stock handle bar. This is why there is no pin in any Road King, Street Glide, Softail, Dyna or Sporster. So if you do have a CVO or Ultra we do apologize for the inconvenience but you will have to pull out the pin. But don't worry it really only takes one minute, just grab some vice grips and pull up. Hopefully this article truly helps you out and we hope you don't think we are just trying to pull a fast one on you, we are riders like yourself and have been in the handle bar manufacturing business for years so we understand to put safety first above all aspects when designing our products.