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Sep 27, 2012 | 10:08 PM

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HDexplorer

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Sep 27, 2012 | 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by XFXDX

Haha! What's the length of those 970's? Could be a nice upgrade for the DX. Their tuneable rebound, compression, and pre-load, right? I've blasted off a few curbs myself, no scraping or bottoming out, but I definitely felt it...

12.5" Threaded preload adjustment, deflective disc valved main piston and a deflective disc valved compression piston (piggy back). About 20 clicks of adjustment

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Originally Posted by HDexplorer

These shocks have always sounded great but it is my understanding that I can't get a set of 11" for my Fat Bob?

Keep putting a bug in their ear, you guys wont have any regrets running with 970's.

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Originally Posted by TXcruzin

Cool story and great endorsement.

Any idea how much longer these are than stock on the current generation Wide Glide ? did it increase your wheel gap ? Where did you buy them ? 1000 bux from the site ouch.

The 970's are 12.5 inch.

The FXD, FXDC and FXDWG had 12.6 inch shocks from 06 to 09
The rest of the 06-09 Dynas had 12 inch shocks.
All the Dynas went to 12 inch shocks in 2010

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Originally Posted by swbob

Try Jc motors much cheaper(get some you wont regret it, awesome shocks)

Great advice, check it out

Sep 27, 2012 | 10:51 PM

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parts eeter

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How much do you guys weigh that are running these 970 shocks?

Sep 28, 2012 | 10:46 AM

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ynots

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I weigh 190 give or take a few beers. I keep my sag set for 2up (340 lbs). When riding solo I just turn down the compression dampening about 5 clicks, you can adjust it while riding down the road

Last edited by ynots; Sep 28, 2012 at 02:43 PM.