Fat bob not comfortable
Ultimate HDF Member
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 5,384
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From: Out on Deranged
li9ke I said push the seat zone forward with a seat and get pull-back risers or even apes! I sat on a fatbob last summer that had 16" apes and surprisingly they relaxed my arms alot more than the 1.5" pull back risers I wound with.
I surely don't mean any harm, welcome to the forums.
I surely don't mean any harm, welcome to the forums.
Tourer
Joined: Jul 2013
Posts: 426
Likes: 1
From: CT, USA
Hogi, I bought a 12 Fat Bob in the spring this year and after fighting with the bike for over 3mo trying to get it comfortable and ride-able for me. I finally gave up and traded it in on a new 13 Switchback.....This new bike is the bomb 
I love riding it and its everything I wished the Fat Bob was.
I love riding it and its everything I wished the Fat Bob was.
Thx
thank you all for good info! you saved me so much time!
the seat is so nice - I dont want to chang it.
love HD 'Reduced Reach Forward Control Conversion Kit' but way more $$$ than i like to spent now.
if any one know about 'do it yourself' mod for the forward controls - let me know.
until solving the problem - i made this mod and it is doing the job!
the seat is so nice - I dont want to chang it.
love HD 'Reduced Reach Forward Control Conversion Kit' but way more $$$ than i like to spent now.
if any one know about 'do it yourself' mod for the forward controls - let me know.
until solving the problem - i made this mod and it is doing the job!
Like it! more pic's of you'r bike?
Road Captain
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 676
Likes: 2
From: Glendale, AZ
Hey..before you go looking at reduced reach forward controls...ensure that someone did not put on Extended reach forward controls....which are only an extra bracket with that 1.5" extra reach. Then all you would have to do is remove that bracket and change the brake/shifter linkage length. when I bought my wide glide..it had that extended reach kit and I could barely get my foot under the shifter peg.
Cruiser
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 169
Likes: 0
From: Tucson, Arizona
Harley makes a reduced reach kit. Also some of their seats also much you closer by an inch or more. A nice combination of that should help.
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