How to use a Malo bar on any 2015-17 Road Glide CVO

This is not a step by step video on how to do your install. The purpose of this video is to show you how to use a Malo bar for your 2015-17 Road Glide CVO using 1" riser clamps. This video is only for CVO's.

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Harley Davidson Risers.

Probably one of the hardest parts about manufacturing a handle bar is knowing which riser to make it for. We ask you a lot of questions before you make your initial purchase because we want to make sure we get you the correct handle bar. For years Harley Davidson was always 1" diameter and no matter what handle bar you had it would work. Well times have changed and Harley Davidson now offers quite a few different risers on bikes. We don't know exactly when but we do know it all started with the CVO models when Harley changed the diameter of the handle bar to 1-1/4" for a more beefy look and they decided to spilt the risers for the springers. In 2015 when Harley introduced the re designed Road Glide it was not only 1-1/4" diameter but it had the wire hole facing forward and a pin in the riser. We try our best to make sure our handle bars will fit your bike but there is some cases where we just can not make a one off custom bar to fit your risers regardless if they are Harley Davidson. Factory 47 is a handle bar manufacturing company and we run all of our bars in production so to stop all of our production for one handle bar would shoot up the cost of the bars. But there is a solution if you happen to have a riser that we do not offer a handle bar for, simply change your riser. If we do make you a custom handle bar we charge at least $100 but it is simply just easier to buy a riser that is the standard 1" Harley Davidson diameter not to mention they cost less then $100. Now we understand if you are concerned about safety, we too are riders and always put safety as our top priority. So just make sure they are Harley Davidson brand so you can be sure they have gone through all the safety requirements required by law. Another reason to change your riser is simply just the look, most customers including ourselves who put the Maddogger on the Softail will change to the older style riser because the new riser is way to high and pulled back. Whenever we look for risers a simple solution is Ebay, just search Harley Davidson riser. We really hope this article helps you and trust us after you put a Factory 47 handle bar on your bike the riser is gonna be the last thing someone looks at. In case you need some technical help please use the diagrams below with our techs so they can further assist you.

Road Glide Riser Pin (2015-2023)

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.