angled triple trees, lowering shocks and ride quality.???
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angled triple trees, lowering shocks and ride quality.???
here is my plan and i need info. i am buying my 11" rear shocks from PSI this friday and am planning my next mod. i am mainly going for looks but safety and ridability is more important. i was looking for a raked triple tree. only a little bit more then stock though
i am riding a 2007 streetbob. are the trees raked stock on this bike?
is combining lowering shocks and racked trees safe if you maintain stock tube length? does anyone know how much trail i will have?
if i am satisfied with what the ride and safety will be i am going to do this but first i have to find a place to buy the trees. all the sets in JP say not for my year dyna???????
i am riding a 2007 streetbob. are the trees raked stock on this bike?
is combining lowering shocks and racked trees safe if you maintain stock tube length? does anyone know how much trail i will have?
if i am satisfied with what the ride and safety will be i am going to do this but first i have to find a place to buy the trees. all the sets in JP say not for my year dyna???????
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Plenty of people have 11" shocks and are pleased with them, although they are not the preferred setup for all-out performance. Rather than raked trees, you can get raked neck cups that will give you 3* more rake. Do a search, all of this has been covered...a bunch.
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3 degrees of rake has always been the recommended measure for dynas that I have heard. My indy says he recommends 3 degrees but 5 wouldn't be "dangerous" if you wanted to go that far. Anything beyond that and the ridability starts to go away on you according to him. As someone else said though, in my opinion, not worth it for 3 degrees but to each his own. 11" shocks can and has been done but you do cut down on your travel and the ride will likely suffer, especially on not so good roads. Much of that will depend on how much weight is on the bike and the type of shocks you are getting. I dropped down to 12" shocks but I upgraded to heavy duty models and my ride actually improved as I was almost at the weight limit recommendation for standard shocks at the time - 250 lbs. I'm 30 lbs lighter now but still like the ride better even though many do not seem to appreciate Progressive 412 shocks as a significant upgrade.
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I am putting 11 inch shocks on my wideglide this weekend and will give my 2 cents after i try them out if you want. I have been throwing around rake options for a while now and from what I gather 3 degrees won't hurt anything and I talked to Joe at vulcan today (people that make the cups) and they don't change the handling at all to speak of. I have heard that some folks don't like the look of the cups once on the bike. I have some and am planning to put them on to see if it does anything for me.
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I have the 11" heavy duty Progressives and it rides pretty rough.So much so that I'm thinking of going back to air shocks. I wouldn't waste my money raking the front end with stock length tubes but if you lower the rear without doing anything with the front it will increase the Dyna's inherent instability in high speed cornering. This can be easily rectified by sliding the tubes up in the triples about 1/2".