The stock 'L' bars, like so many chopper-styled bikes, feel okay when you are sitting on the bike while it is parked (like in the dealer's showroom back in the day).
But they suck the big one when you actually ride the bike.
And there is very little difference between what is now called a 'Daytona' bend handlebar and a 'superbike' bend. Unless all Daytona bars are black...
I had another 1000L many years ago, a 1980 model.
Don't you love that seat? Actually, I hated that bike, mostly because of the bars, and sold it (for about twice what I paid for it). I had other bikes at the time, as you can see - that's a '75 Gold Wing wearing the Tracy fairing and four into one Jardine pipe, a sweet '76 GT-750 w/ superbike bars and bar end mirrors hidden behind the 'L', and on the right is 'The Kid' (as we called it), a '74 GT-380 that was just a fantastic, fun bike (soon after this photo was taken, it got a black w/ gold pinstripe gas tank and side covers from a '76).
Unfortunately, except for the 1000L, eventually I sold all three of the bikes in that photo to very close friends, and each and every one of them wrecked their bike soon after they bought it! Really ****ed me off - certainly I can't be the only one that can own and ride a bike w/o wrecking it, can I?
When I found my current 1000GL about two and a half years ago (sitting in the garage of the ex-wife of the original owner, where it had been languishing for some 24 years), I was looking for an old shaftie GS, although not another 'L" model. But I knew that I'd be happy with the bike if I just switched the bars.
Heck, I changed the bars before I even got it running and took it for it's first ride down the driveway.
Many of you have heard this story before, it had 11K miles on it, a tank and carbs full of crap that I guess was gasoline at some point, an inch of crud on it that I guess was accumulated dust but had the consistency of salt crystals, bone dry brake hydraulics, and some of the most dry rotted tires I had ever seen. It was also missing the right side (points) cover and all of the pieces inside (magnetic pickups, mechanical advance, etc.).
I gave her $200 for it.
It now has 40K miles on it. And, incidentally, the original seat is beneath that wooly mammoth (bathroom rug) seat cover and is still in mint condition.
And let me remind owners of GS-L models that I think you are nuts if you are running any tire other than Dunlop Elite 3's - they grip, look great, and last almost forever!
LUV them bars! 
