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Frame Stabilizers
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If you want to improve how your bike feels, handles, and rides your first step should be upgrading the suspension. As the earlier post said. I just installed the new Legend AXEO front end kit and Revo shocks on my 14 Limited. The improvements are so dramatic I wish I had upgraded my suspension day one. There are many options out there at various prices. That's my recommendation.
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I whole heartedly agree and did rear shock as the very first mod on my 2013. The issue is that some people want a soft caddy style ride like the stock shocks provide (most of the time) and others prefer the firmer more planted feeling of a spring shock. Same goes for the front end.
I prefer a bike than handles (for an 850 lb beast) decently to one that rides smooth until you hit a huge bump and then bottoms out. Much of this has to do with your perception of how a motorcycle is supposed to ride. I get the feeling from talking to custoemrs over and over that they are expecting a car type suspension on a motorcycle.
To me that is counter productive.
I prefer a bike than handles (for an 850 lb beast) decently to one that rides smooth until you hit a huge bump and then bottoms out. Much of this has to do with your perception of how a motorcycle is supposed to ride. I get the feeling from talking to custoemrs over and over that they are expecting a car type suspension on a motorcycle.
To me that is counter productive.
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The design of the rear engine mount section of the 09+ touring bikes are the same as 08 and below.
Still two rubber donuts that can weaken over time and allow the swing arm to move back and forth just as before.
They will also flex under load so that is what a stabilizer can help with if you feel it necessary.
The front design is much better though.
Still two rubber donuts that can weaken over time and allow the swing arm to move back and forth just as before.
They will also flex under load so that is what a stabilizer can help with if you feel it necessary.
The front design is much better though.
Last edited by lp; Dec 16, 2015 at 07:00 PM.
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The design of the rear engine mount section of the 09+ touring bikes are the same as 08 and below.
Still two rubber donuts that can weaken over time and allow the swing arm to move back and forth just as before.
They will also flex under load so that is what a stabilizer can help with if you feel it necessary.
The front design is much better though.
Still two rubber donuts that can weaken over time and allow the swing arm to move back and forth just as before.
They will also flex under load so that is what a stabilizer can help with if you feel it necessary.
The front design is much better though.
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It's much easier to just say the new frames don't need it and stabilizers for them are a scam, and it's way cheaper too. You however are 100% right about the rear engine/trans/swingarm rubber isolation, 2008 or 2009&up they are the same. And when ridden in similar ways will react in a similar fashion.
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I have one of these installed on my 2014 street glide. I got the death wobble in a 90-100 mph sweeper. After that ride I inspected my tires pressure and for defects. Everything checked out. I ordered this shortly after. Installed it (simple bolt on no modifications) and hit the same turn at the same speed a couple of weeks later. No wobble.
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There is a bracket that bolts to the back of the starter and it bolts to that. As long as you do not have mid frame heat deflectors the hole on the right side is already there as well. If you have the deflectors I think you will have to remove a bolt on that side. But yes, no drilling required.