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Old Mar 8, 2020 | 09:50 PM
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Which Dyna frame has a rake most similar to a Sportster XL?
 
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Old Mar 8, 2020 | 09:55 PM
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I think the Fat Bob has the steepest rake of the modern Dynas, and only the FXDX is steeper by 1 degree iirc.
 
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Do you mean "Frame Neck Angle" or "Fork Angle"? ... They may or may not be the same

For example, gleam's Fat Bob has 29° frame (like all 06-later Dynas except the FXDWG Wide Glide), but has Negative Rake Trees for a 28° Fork Angle


Gleam, all the 05-earlier Dynas other than Low Rider and Wide Glide used 28° Frames with 0° Trees = 28° Fork Angle
 
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Good question multihdrdr, and I don’t know the answer.
 
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Originally Posted by multihdrdr
Do you mean "Frame Neck Angle" or "Fork Angle"? ... They may or may not be the same

For example, gleam's Fat Bob has 29° frame (like all 06-later Dynas except the FXDWG Wide Glide), but has Negative Rake Trees for a 28° Fork Angle


Gleam, all the 05-earlier Dynas other than Low Rider and Wide Glide used 28° Frames with 0° Trees = 28° Fork Angle
Thanks, I'm always grateful to learn and this got me thinking about some things. Does that mean there was a different frame unique to that Wide Glide?

I wish there was a reference for all this model information somewhere. Alls I can find is sales mumbojumbo whenever I look for it.
 
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The 06-later WG had it's own frame with a 34° Neck and some Tree Rake for a total of 36° Fork Angle

The 05-earlier WG shared a 32° Frame with the Low Rider and I believe also No Rake in the WG trees
 
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