1) Drink beverage of choice and pull out back-up list of curse words in case you run out.
2) Remove handgrips from both sides. They're glued on, and can be a pain. Work it baby.
3) Remove tank or cover it with a THICK pad (don't ask).
4) Remove controls and let them hang freely
5) Remove 4 bolts holding tach cover, and rotate tach forward to gain more access
6) Turn bars to left, and remove 2 bolts underneath risers (under the triple trees). Have someone hold bars while you're doing this.
7) You'll probably have to drill out the left side hole where the riser bolt goes in. There's a plate under the trees (it has your wire looms on it) which for some reason seems like the left side hole is smaller). Just take a drill, match a bit to the hole, and ream it up and down a couple of times from the top. This will make putting your new riser bolt in a lot easier.
8) Have same someone hold new bars in place while you bolt them from the bottom. Use the same stock rubber washer/spacers between risers and triple tree. Don't overtighten, or you will have vibration issues -use a torque wrench. Having said that, I didn't. I just tightened till it felt tight, but not crazy tight. I have no issues (I'm saying this in case you don't have a torque wrench).
9) Put Clutch Perch back on. If you don't it will probably be on the wrong side of the drilled out hole for your wiring, and you'll have a heck of a time getting it past said wiring. You CAN spread the clutch perch and slide it past, but it will often crack and you'll be buying a new perch. Don't ask me how I know. Loosely assemble the left/right controls, so that you have your wiring available, and not hanging loosely anymore.
10) Cut wires about 5 inches behind headlight bucket. You don't want to cut too close, or you'll be soldering them back together in an awkward place. When you cut them, stagger the cuts so that you don't have a huge blob of soldered joints all right next to each other.
11) Strip plastic sheathing off of wires. Leave about 3 inches on the 2 wire clutch switch, but go all the way to the left control housing for the other wires. (or you can re-tape the clutch switch wires if you choose so that they match -if so, then cut all the sheathing off of that as well).
12) Take a piece of light twine, and stick it into the lower drilled out hole. Put a vacuum cleaner nozzle on the end of your bars (block off the other end for now with a piece of tape or something) and suck the light twine through the hole and out the top hole. You may have it come out the end of the bars, but then it's easy to fish through the pre-drilled hole at the top.
13) Attach a piece of strong fishing line to the twine, and pull it through. You may be able to suck the fishing line through with your vacuum. I never tried, since I had some twine laying around, and I know that works well. But if you don't have twine, it's worth a shot.
14) Get some high quality electrical tape and wrap your wiring bundle TIGHT. Wrap it from the top where it goes into the control unit. Wrap the clutch wiring seperately for a few inches, then wrap the main bundle tape around the whole thing and continue on until you reach the bottom. Wrap past the end of the wiring, and make a pointy end with your tape.
15) Tie your fishing line TIGHT to the bundle (above the pointy end, where you can sink the fishing line in deep). Really tie it tight.
16) Grease the whole thing up.
17) Push/pull it through. If you do it right, it will go in one pass, and won't take but 30 seconds.
18) Unwrap the pointy end, and start soldering the wires back together one at a time -so that you can easily match them up and you won't need a story board.
19) If you have to, now is when you splice/solder in a 5 inch (or so) section of wiring for each wire.
20) Make sure you put heat/shrink wrap on each end of each individually soldered wire.
21) Wrap the now spliced in section (if required) with electrical tape
22) Tighten controls where you want them
23) Test everything. Remember, the headlight won't come on until you start the bike
24) Drink another (or your 6th or whatever) beverage of your choice, admiring your work and thinking "Dammmm I just saved 200 bucks"
I really should write all of this down, so I don't keep writing it down