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Being my Wide glide like many others have wire spokes that require tubes, have any of you swapped over to rims that you can run tubeless tires on, and what did you go with? I love the looks of my factory wheels, but the down side of running tubes is you don't get a slow leak like you can with tubeless, you'll have a flat rite now. I've been looking on the wanaryd website, and found 4 styles I like for my bike all of which I have to go to a 18'' rear wheel instead of the 17''. Being my bike is black, which one of these do you like the best?
This is where I've found myself as well; so many wheels just look 'wrong' to me on a Wide Glide. I really like the Manhattan black cut black wheels and the Renegade Tahoe wheels but the spokes are tradition. I've bought the 'sealed' spoke wheels in the past; you'll still end up running tubes with them I do think I'm going to go with a solid disc 17" rear powdercoated in vivid black and change up the front with either the Manhattan or the Renegade but I want to keep the rear the same size so the Deuce rear will work well. I've always loved the look of the solid disc rear since the days of the 1983 FXDG Wide Glide.
I'm still not quite ready to jump on new wheels yet so I stick with my stock wheels for now but I do run Pirelli Night Dragons and use Ride On as a balancer/sealant; a serious improvement over the OEM tires
This is where I've found myself as well; so many wheels just look 'wrong' to me on a Wide Glide. I really like the Manhattan black cut black wheels and the Renegade Tahoe wheels but the spokes are tradition. I've bought the 'sealed' spoke wheels in the past; you'll still end up running tubes with them I do think I'm going to go with a solid disc 17" rear powdercoated in vivid black and change up the front with either the Manhattan or the Renegade but I want to keep the rear the same size so the Deuce rear will work well. I've always loved the look of the solid disc rear since the days of the 1983 FXDG Wide Glide.
I'm still not quite ready to jump on new wheels yet so I stick with my stock wheels for now but I do run Pirelli Night Dragons and use Ride On as a balancer/sealant; a serious improvement over the OEM tires
I hear you buddy! I thought about the solid rear as well, and go with a "spoked" front wheel. The 18'' rear limits what you can get on tires to fit as well. The other thing is there's not any of them that are cheap.
Being my Wide glide like many others have wire spokes that require tubes, have any of you swapped over to rims that you can run tubeless tires on, and what did you go with? I love the looks of my factory wheels, but the down side of running tubes is you don't get a slow leak like you can with tubeless, you'll have a flat rite now. I've been looking on the wanaryd website, and found 4 styles I like for my bike all of which I have to go to a 18'' rear wheel instead of the 17''. Being my bike is black, which one of these do you like the best?
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i did, i went with the contrast version of the colorado custom wheel in your post. i did 21" and 18" (21×3.25*& 18×5.5...) but i went wider up front for dual disks and better control/braking/traction. i have no love for the skinny chasing road imperfections.
call them and ask for Bat Masterson. he will walk you through. they will make your wheels to order and can customize them any way you want. you could do black rims and anodized silver spokes. whatever you want... cuz you are gonna PAY! the set cost me ~2300. might as well get them pimped. superb quality and service. took them 2.5 weeks to get them to me. fun fun. just don;t do the nonsense i did.... (8 pages of stupid: https://www.hdforums.com/forum/dyna-...2012-a-51.html)
i did, i went with the contrast version of the colorado custom wheel in your post. i did 21" and 18" (21×3.25*& 18×5.5...) but i went wider up front for dual disks and better control/braking/traction. i have no love for the skinny chasing road imperfections.
call them and ask for Bat Masterson. he will walk you through. they will make your wheels to order and can customize them any way you want. you could do black rims and anodized silver spokes. whatever you want... cuz you are gonna PAY! the set cost me ~2300. might as well get them pimped. superb quality and service. took them 2.5 weeks to get them to me. fun fun. just don;t do the nonsense i did.... (8 pages of stupid: https://www.hdforums.com/forum/dyna-...2012-a-51.html)
Thank you for posting those pictures! That gives me a WAY better idea of how they look on the bike. And your bike looks sweet!
Thank you for posting those pictures! That gives me a WAY better idea of how they look on the bike. And your bike looks sweet!
thanks.
well keep in mind my front wheel is touring thickness @3.25(3.5)withe a 120/70/21 tire not 2.15 with a 90/90/21.
Originally Posted by W.Glide
I hear you buddy! I thought about the solid rear as well, and go with a "spoked" front wheel. The 18'' rear limits what you can get on tires to fit as well. The other thing is there's not any of them that are cheap.
You can buy wire wheels that don`t need tubes, ya know?
Originally Posted by W.Glide
Who makes them that are tubeless?
ultima, paughco, dna, and others.
i did a tubeless front spoke on the dirst dyna i had. it is now in a better place.
i did it again on the current one and it didn't go so well this time around. may have been isolated but, not fun and that's what made me say, "forget spokes" but the spoked bike looked meaner than the cast wheeled bike. somthing about those spokes.
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Question for all you wire wheel owners.
I do think I'm going to go with a solid disc 17" rear powdercoated in vivid black and change up the front with either the Manhattan or the Renegade but I want to keep the rear the same size so the Deuce rear will work well. I've always loved the look of the solid disc rear since the days of the 1983 FXDG Wide Glide.
That gives me a WAY better idea of how they look on the bike. And your bike looks sweet!
