My Indie has some new mag wheels that may fit my 2018 Heritage Classic. But he asked if it has "Cush Drive". Anyone know if the rear wheel is cush drive? He said its common on touring but hadnt seen a new softail so wasnt sure.

I really want mags.

 

no cush drive

 

My Low Rider does not have cush drive, it is solid mounted pulley.

 

Assume Indie = Indian.

I didn't know any bikes with belt final had cush drives. Common on Japanese chain drive street bikes (like e.v.e.r.y. s.i.n.g.l.e. o.n.e. going back to my 1968 Honda CB450)

Can't see any reason why a cush drive wouldn't work on a belt drive bike if you can get all the alignments correct, but not at all needed on a belt drive bike. The belt provides the cushion.

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EDIT - "The belt provides the cushion" may be the wrong answer. Now that I think about it, I think Harley uses a compensator on the crank instead of the cush drive on the rear wheel.

Here's a bunch of **** on belt drives on a Norton forum for any techies.
https://www.nortonownersclub.org/sup...do/belt-drives
Haven't read it all but it looks interesting.

 

In this case “Indie” probably meant independent service shop...

And I think baggers have cush drive, don’t they?

 

Duh. What was I thinking? LOL

 

You are correct, sir! From a Road Glide microfiche

 

Thanks. I read that the touring bikes have the cush drive. Question was whether the new softails did. Which I gather, they do not.

I can now go forward on installing mags. Although I like the looks of spokes, I really need the ease of running tubeless mags given the road conditions where I live and the number of flats we incur. Plugging a tubeless is simple compared to pulling the wheel to get to the tube.

 

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Tubeless-Kit...0/291502584775

 

Cush drive came out in 2008 to counteract the torque pulse complaint when they went to the 96 inch motor and lightened the flywheels. My 2007 was ruff and jerky till I installed the '08 cush drive. It would be nice on a softail if you could make it work with the torque of the M8.