A friend just bought a really nice Road King for $9500.00 with under 20K miles. He got the suspension pump from the previous owner. The seller told him there were two schrader valves on the bike, one for the front "air suspension" and one for the rear shocks. The bike is a 2000, 2001 or 2002 ( I can't remember ).

My 2009 Street Glide has one schrader valve which tee's into both rear schocks. Does an early 2000 Road King have front air suspension or one valve per rear shock? I thought the front ends on those bikes were hydraulic like my 2002 Fat Boy was.

 

Nobody here has a 2000 to 2002 Road King (or is familiar with one) that can answer this?

 

My 2002 RK has only one valve for the rear. I believe 2000's had air assist forks.

 

The 2000's or 01's DO have front air. A friend of mine's RK has that

 

The air assist for the front forks is accessed via a valve in the end of the left-hand handlebar. The handlebar is an air reservoir, connected to the forks via a manifold and an electrical valve. While riding along the air in the forks and handlebars acts like a supplementary suspension spring. On applying the front brake, the valve closes, so only the air in the forks provides that extra springing, which counters fork dive. Early Harleys with this system used the front engine bar, but the handlebars has been in use since the late 80s.

There are three possibilities to investigate, to find the valve. It may simply be a black plastic tyre valve in a hole in a black plastic handlebar grip! The bike may have custom grips with a screw-off end cap, behind which lurks the valve, or possibly a previous owner has disabled it, which is not uncommon.

Hope that helps. Air pressures are similar for the rear.

 

Not all air-fork Schrader valves were on the left grip. My '96 RK was near the grease fitting to the left of the steering head. Some later models had both front and rear valves on the rear fender, left side. I think they stopped installing these after 2001 when cartridge forks were introduced in 2002. Those lasted through 2005, and in 2006 the Moco changed to the non-air fork we know today.

 

My 01 Ultra has 2 on the right side behind saddlebag. The front valve for front forks and rear valve for the rear shocks.

 

CORRECT! 2 valves for front and rear right side behind saddlebag until the cartridge style front ends came out in....02, (I'm pretty sure that was the first year.)

 

My 97 Road King has these two valves too.

 

My '01 RKC has two valves mounted behind the right side saddlebag, one for the front shocks and one for the rear.