This post is an answer for Patsy who is also having a problem mounting their passenger armrests on their Harley trike her comment was “Hi I just noticed that you were having problems putting arm rests on your trike. We too are in the same boat. We have a Harley Trike and need to get our arm rests on our bike. Could your friend Bill tell us how he did make them work?” As you can see from the photo below Bill did figure out a way to attach my passenger armrests.

The 2nd photo  Bill removed the seat so I could take a picture of the steel bar which he got at Lowe’s. It’s the one that is unpainted and it’s a 12 inch long 1-1/2 inch by 1/4 piece of stock steel. He had to drill 4 holes. From each end they were 1-1/2 and 2-1/2 on center and they were 1/4 inch holes, he had to use the spacers and it’s connected where the tour pack should have been, but he had to move the tour pack back.

It should have been a piece of cake to mount them, but there was no room to attach them to the tour pack where they would normally have gone. If it had been a regular bike there would have been no problem what so ever. I’m really glad he figured out how to make them work because I really love them and I was afraid he’d have to send them back. I hope the information helps and if you have any more questions Patsy please don’t hesitate to ask.

I am updating to add that we lowered the air pressure in the back tires to 25 they had them at 40 and we have one of those small somewhat expensive pumps we got at our Harley shop for our shocks Bill pumped them up to 35 since we are 2 up and it really feels different when you go over bumps it seems to flow easier and not hit so hard. Those are things that you can play with and adjust till you find what feels best for you and everyone has a different opinion.

I’m certainly happy with the trike and feel so much safer in traffic around all those drivers that besides finding me invisible that don’t seem to see motorcycles either this thing at least stands out to them. We don’t have reverse on ours and so far we’ve never needed it, it rolls so easy, but we always try to take care where we park and we like the special places they let us park at the motorcycle events, we’re getting spoiled. Have a great weekend.