fat bob cornering
Road Captain
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From: Ponte Vedra, FL
RE: fat bob cornering
<laugh> Didn't realize I was that transparent. My best friend's kids call me "Wicked Evil" as in Wicked Evil Stepmother LOL
I'm really not THAT mean, a little sadistic maybe, but not mean!
Snow huh? I sincerely hope that it's the last of the fluffy white stuff you will see this year.
(SEEEE, I can be nice!)
I'm really not THAT mean, a little sadistic maybe, but not mean!
Snow huh? I sincerely hope that it's the last of the fluffy white stuff you will see this year.
(SEEEE, I can be nice!)
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Scotland
RE: fat bob cornering
ORIGINAL: Scooter Wench
<laugh> Didn't realize I was that transparent. My best friend's kids call me "Wicked Evil" as in Wicked Evil Stepmother LOL
I'm really not THAT mean, a little sadistic maybe, but not mean!
Snow huh? I sincerely hope that it's the last of the fluffy white stuff you will see this year.
(SEEEE, I can be nice!)
<laugh> Didn't realize I was that transparent. My best friend's kids call me "Wicked Evil" as in Wicked Evil Stepmother LOL
I'm really not THAT mean, a little sadistic maybe, but not mean!
Snow huh? I sincerely hope that it's the last of the fluffy white stuff you will see this year.
(SEEEE, I can be nice!)
Sunday I was on the Easter egg run for the local Kids hospital about 13000 bikes turned up and the sun did too !! Great day lots of burned out clutches .
Don't get too excited it was still only about 7 degrees !!
Jury is still out on the mean thing . Need to see lots more of the nice stuff !!! LLLLLOL
Road Captain
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From: Ponte Vedra, FL
RE: fat bob cornering
7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With no zero behind it???? As in a single digit??????????
OMG man, that is just wrong!!!!! Do you guys wear electric thermal underwear or something??????
I definitely must be spoiled rotten if I don't even want to ride when it's in the 50's! I'll do low 40's if I have to but that's the limit!
7! I can't even imagine. What do you wear on your face?? Insulation? Mudpacks? Fur? (Trying to think of anything that could be warm enough to keep you warm in that temperature)
Okay, you are going to laugh. I live in Florida, I have a Dodge Magnum R/T. It has heated seats in them and I USE them!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The coldest it got here this winter was in the low 20's a couple of times. Gonna get me some of those heated gloves for long winter rides next year! LOL
With no zero behind it???? As in a single digit??????????
OMG man, that is just wrong!!!!! Do you guys wear electric thermal underwear or something??????
I definitely must be spoiled rotten if I don't even want to ride when it's in the 50's! I'll do low 40's if I have to but that's the limit!
7! I can't even imagine. What do you wear on your face?? Insulation? Mudpacks? Fur? (Trying to think of anything that could be warm enough to keep you warm in that temperature)
Okay, you are going to laugh. I live in Florida, I have a Dodge Magnum R/T. It has heated seats in them and I USE them!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The coldest it got here this winter was in the low 20's a couple of times. Gonna get me some of those heated gloves for long winter rides next year! LOL
Road Captain
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From: Ponte Vedra, FL
RE: fat bob cornering
Wait, something just occured to me. 7 degrees C or F???????? If it's 7 degrees C then that's about 45 degrees F and that wouldn't be so bad!!!! Please tell me you're talking celsius!!!!
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RE: fat bob cornering
Um, back to the Dyna cornering deal and its rubber mounts...
Last week in a long swooping deep leaning left turn at ~60+ mph I hit the rear left passenger mount structure hard on the pavement and scared the s__t of myself....because this immediatedly caused a massive side to side oscillation on my 2005 FXDI which I had never experienced before and I was subsequently all over the lane on a 2 lane road with no shoulders.
What's up with this lateral instability on rubber mounts? I rode my '73 Shovelhead for years and never had this kind of issue...
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Last week in a long swooping deep leaning left turn at ~60+ mph I hit the rear left passenger mount structure hard on the pavement and scared the s__t of myself....because this immediatedly caused a massive side to side oscillation on my 2005 FXDI which I had never experienced before and I was subsequently all over the lane on a 2 lane road with no shoulders.
What's up with this lateral instability on rubber mounts? I rode my '73 Shovelhead for years and never had this kind of issue...
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From: Alberta
RE: fat bob cornering
Wolfgang; your Shovel was bolted to the frame, unlike the FXD'x where the rear wheel, swingarm, tranny and engine are free to flop around in rubber mounts inside the frame. Subtract rebound dampening, add flimsy front forks (for an 850+ pound load) and, yeah, handling can get exciting when pushed.....but the vast majority of HD riders will never find out. Before anyone says the old "Why don't you just buy a crotch rocket" it's 'cause I ridden a few bikes and none have the torque and sound I enjoy with my 103 FXDXT. It wasn't cheap, though.
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RE: fat bob cornering
ORIGINAL: Gilly
OK, that description is a mouthful. What it is is a small shock absorber that still allows the bars to be moved left/right to full deflection, but puts a small (in most cases adjustable amount) of drag on the bar. Not enough to keep you from doing what you need to do to manuever the bike around, say into a garage or parking stall, but enough to dampen out oscillations at high speed cornering. It mounts to one fork leg on one side (or sometimes to the triple clamp somewhere), and to the frame of the bike on the other.
Gilly
OK, that description is a mouthful. What it is is a small shock absorber that still allows the bars to be moved left/right to full deflection, but puts a small (in most cases adjustable amount) of drag on the bar. Not enough to keep you from doing what you need to do to manuever the bike around, say into a garage or parking stall, but enough to dampen out oscillations at high speed cornering. It mounts to one fork leg on one side (or sometimes to the triple clamp somewhere), and to the frame of the bike on the other.
Gilly
Very good description......but if you want to put it into simpler terms, steering dampner= no tank slappers with the handlebars.
RE: fat bob cornering
Sharkey's bike is to me the definition of harley that actually handles well.
def. did it the right way.
Metal mike: wish i saw those shocks before i plopped down 500 on the Sway a Ways
are those off the shelf?
def. did it the right way.
Metal mike: wish i saw those shocks before i plopped down 500 on the Sway a Ways
are those off the shelf?