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Old May 8, 2021 | 07:55 AM
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I'm finally tired of getting my hands banged up and bloody from checking my tire pressure and putting air in the tires. Can I put on those 90 degree value extensions to the existing stems? If so, where can a buy them? It's for a 2015 Ultra.

My bloodied hands will thank you. I had to throw away 3 tire gauges yesterday that didn't work. The 4th one was digital and the battery was dead. Had to go to Batteries Plus for 2 new batteries. It's a Slime model and still couldn't get it to read pressure. I give up!! Please help!
 
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Old May 8, 2021 | 08:04 AM
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FWIW - I went with the valve stem extension.

https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/e...em;sp_cs=UTF-8
 
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Old May 8, 2021 | 08:05 AM
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Hey Gov, I feel your pain lol! It ain’t easy getting old. I use my J&S jack to lift it high enough to get to em without a lot of drama. I don’t know if it would or wouldn’t, but I stayed away from the 90 degree adapters as in my mind, it’d seem to add stress which might eventually cause a break somewhere down the road, probably when it was raining and in the middle of a trip. But that’s just MY luck, yours might be a lot better :-)
 
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Old May 8, 2021 | 08:31 AM
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Hey Gov, what about these??

FOBO_Bike_2

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Old May 8, 2021 | 08:38 AM
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Hey Gov, what about these??

FOBO_Bike_2

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Those are slick, thanks for sharing
 
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Old May 8, 2021 | 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by devron55
Hey Gov, what about these??

FOBO_Bike_2

Dev
YES, I know about them, but the monitor system is only Half the battle. What's really killing my hands is trying to get TO the tire valve with the chuck from my Air compressor. I want something that will help me get the air into the tire with EASE. But thanks for the reply! I appreciate it.
 
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Checking my tires pressure the other day short of the blood had
me wondering about a better designed tire gage for our bikes.


 
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Originally Posted by Oko
FWIW - I went with the valve stem extension.

https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/e...em;sp_cs=UTF-8
I second this, I had 3 bikes in the garage, 1 touring and 2 dynas...this was the easiest, simplest solution I ever found.
 
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And now have this one on the way for 26 bucks. Thanks for the reminder.


 
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