Configuring the Dyna for short 2up trips... Yuck!
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Road Warrior
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RE: Configuring the Dyna for short 2up trips... Yuck!
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FYI Thump, your stock bike looks the *****. The tank seems bigger than my 05. I like it. TK
FYI Thump, your stock bike looks the *****. The tank seems bigger than my 05. I like it. TK
PS - I was in the Air Force for 6 years and stationed at Scott AFB, IL the entire time. Had a few different jobs, but I was a paralegal in the JAG Department most of the time.
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Road Warrior
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RE: Configuring the Dyna for short 2up trips... Yuck!
By the way, I "think" the tank on my bike is considered a "Fat Bob" tank. Are they all called "Fat Bobs" on the Dynas? I have no idea.
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RE: Configuring the Dyna for short 2up trips... Yuck!
cant you get detachable side plates and hardwear for an 06 and just put the year you have sissy bar and luggage rack on it. the detachablehardwear is just replacing the two fender strut screws w/some plastic spacer bushings for the detach side plates. just a thought.
I have detach sissy bar and rack, windshield, e-z brackets for bags, and big old comfy seat for the misses, when she not w/I go out stripped naked!!!!
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I have detach sissy bar and rack, windshield, e-z brackets for bags, and big old comfy seat for the misses, when she not w/I go out stripped naked!!!!
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RE: Configuring the Dyna for short 2up trips... Yuck!
Thump, you can still switch back and forth between your short backrest and the taller one- it's just 4 bolts. I do that (though the tall one with the luggage rack rarely goes on). I also have 2 seats that I can switch back and forth in a minute with one finger screw (same for saddle bags), and the windshield takes seconds.I even change theAC cover for long trips now.[8D]I can do all of the above in a few minutes. It's not as quick or invisible as the newer quick release stuff, but it does the trick. No need to give up your bike's stripped look all the time.
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RE: Configuring the Dyna for short 2up trips... Yuck!
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By the way, I "think" the tank on my bike is considered a "Fat Bob" tank. Are they all called "Fat Bobs" on the Dynas? I have no idea.
By the way, I "think" the tank on my bike is considered a "Fat Bob" tank. Are they all called "Fat Bobs" on the Dynas? I have no idea.
Yes, that sissy bar is sort of what I had in mind, minus the pad. I was just thinking it might be easier to swap bars than to remove the pad and have to put it back on. Then again, there are 4 bolts to be removed to swap the bars as well I believe - so either way.
Good luck
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RE: Configuring the Dyna for short 2up trips... Yuck!
not sure why your saying one of the later seats wont fit ? I have a `96 lowrider. Fornt mount on the seat hooks under a square sectoin tube welded to the frame and the back just fixes withthe usual thumb screw. Could be all you have to do is chaged the rear bracker. I know thats the only difference between wide glides and the rest of the dynas . I will whip the seat of tomorrow and takes some pics for you.
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RE: Configuring the Dyna for short 2up trips... Yuck!
ORIGINAL: tb2377
cant you get detachable side plates and hardwear for an 06 and just put the year you have sissy bar and luggage rack on it. the detachablehardwear is just replacing the two fender strut screws w/some plastic spacer bushings for the detach side plates. just a thought.
cant you get detachable side plates and hardwear for an 06 and just put the year you have sissy bar and luggage rack on it. the detachablehardwear is just replacing the two fender strut screws w/some plastic spacer bushings for the detach side plates. just a thought.
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RE: Configuring the Dyna for short 2up trips... Yuck!
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not sure why your saying one of the later seats wont fit ? I have a `96 lowrider. Fornt mount on the seat hooks under a square sectoin tube welded to the frame and the back just fixes withthe usual thumb screw. Could be all you have to do is chaged the rear bracker. I know thats the only difference between wide glides and the rest of the dynas . I will whip the seat of tomorrow and takes some pics for you.
not sure why your saying one of the later seats wont fit ? I have a `96 lowrider. Fornt mount on the seat hooks under a square sectoin tube welded to the frame and the back just fixes withthe usual thumb screw. Could be all you have to do is chaged the rear bracker. I know thats the only difference between wide glides and the rest of the dynas . I will whip the seat of tomorrow and takes some pics for you.
I thought the Dyna frame itself was different in '91-'95 than later years?
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RE: Configuring the Dyna for short 2up trips... Yuck!
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If my wife had only ridden on mine, she wouldn't have known the difference. She still would have bitched but she would have just though it was nature of the beast. But my arsehole bro-in-law (her brother) took her for a ride on the back of his Heritage right after she climbed off the back of mine and all I heard was how I bought a P.O.S. bike that she can't ride comfortable on and why didn't I get something like he had. Hold on there - I bought this bike for me and when I bought it, you were teetering on divorce because of itand swore you'd never go within 10 feet of it! Women! She still bitches because the sissy bar pad vibrates against her back and gives here the "bumble bees" she calls it. But that feaux-leather sofa cushion HD calls a seat, she likes. I bet if the seat were vibrating and the sissy bar pad wasn't, she wouldn't be complaining as much. Second thought, yes she would.
If my wife had only ridden on mine, she wouldn't have known the difference. She still would have bitched but she would have just though it was nature of the beast. But my arsehole bro-in-law (her brother) took her for a ride on the back of his Heritage right after she climbed off the back of mine and all I heard was how I bought a P.O.S. bike that she can't ride comfortable on and why didn't I get something like he had. Hold on there - I bought this bike for me and when I bought it, you were teetering on divorce because of itand swore you'd never go within 10 feet of it! Women!
She still bitches because the sissy bar pad vibrates against her back and gives here the "bumble bees" she calls it. But that feaux-leather sofa cushion HD calls a seat, she likes. I bet if the seat were vibrating and the sissy bar pad wasn't, she wouldn't be complaining as much. Second thought, yes she would.
This whole paragraph has got to be the funniest junk I've seen on here in a while.
I rarely post from work .... but this deserves it !!! Too Funny!! On the whole issue of going 2-UP ..... It's almost impossible to leave a bike stripped down if you do more than around town rides. Passenger or not, you need some place to store stuff. I never visualized my bike as2-UP when I bought it, but it's gone thatdirection.Hit the pic threads and try to find the best-looking 2-UP bikes you can ......bikes that really catch your eye as cool-looking ...... thenmove yours in the direction of those.
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RE: Configuring the Dyna for short 2up trips... Yuck!
That's gotta suck Thump (Not being able to find the detach. plates and being stuck at one base the whole time). I was in 9 years. Stationed at George AFB in Ca, Camp Darby, Italy(with the Army), Loring AFB, Me, Camp Red Cloud, Korea (Again with the Army) and ended up at Vandenberg AFB in Ca. I was in Civil Engineering, Electric Power Production. Had the time of my life overseas. 
Went TDY a lot, Germany, Austria, Greece, Spain, Japan, Phillipines.
Went TDY a lot, Germany, Austria, Greece, Spain, Japan, Phillipines.