Have a 09 street bob, and want to slap on black shocks...since my pockets aren't deep, I'm thinking bout putting some air shocks from a touring bike....pretty cheap off ebay. Searched the threads and been reading how the ride is great on the straight aways but lack on the cornering. I'm wondering if that has to do with the way people are installing them. I've read some slap schrauder valves on them and wondering if that is why cornering sucks as compared to have the shocks twined into one schrauder valve. Any thoughts??? Anybody know what specific bike i should target for the shocks...thinking i wanna drop the rear an inch..so i know i need 11's........ tanx

 

Yeah I think that using one valve will mean if you have a leaky shock, you won't know about it. With two valves you're getting two separate readings and you can tell when one shock needs adjustment rather than getting one reading from one valve.

 

im wondering if u will have a better ride if the two are twined 2gether...in a turn it will allow the inner shock ur leaning on to compress and pass air to the outer shock of the turn....to balance out i guess......

How are they run on a touring bike??

 

Well first of all if you use Harley shocks from a touring bike the shortest they come in is 12".That will be FLHX (Street Glide) shocks or (profile) shocks and they'll run around 250 new on Ebay if you're lucky you might find a decent used set for 150.Then there's regular FLH or Road King shocks they're every bit of 12 3/4" they're way cheaper like 70.00 you could use lowering blocks with em but I have a feeling they'd be way too soft.Good Luck.Also there are some aftermarket versions that are around 150.00 new but the quality is suspect.

 

That's a good question I'm not quite sure how they come from the factory on a touring model. My buddy's Street Glide has them hosted together with one valve at the end. But my understanding (and I could be wrong) is that this is done for more ease of adjusting the shocks, rather than for any performance reasons such as you pose in your turning example.

On a touring bike with out the hoses and one-valve system, I think the hardbags would need to be removed on each side to reach the valve on the top of each shock. That'd be a pain in the butt.