Why does HD make the Narrow Glide?
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I've been around bikes for a long time now and this is the first time I've ever heard the term "Narrow Glide". I even looked for the terminology in the "Complete Harley- Davidson Book of Knowledge" and came up with exactly nothing, zilch,zero, goose eggs. Must be an Asian sort of thing.
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Who knows, maybe it's a regional thing. I've had Harleys for 45 years and this is the first time I've seen anyone refer to a regular old normal front end on a Dyna, FX or anything else as being a narrow glide. Wide glide, yes. Narrow glide, no. My experiance has been that those with a wide glide refer to it as such. Those that don't have a wide glide just don't distinguish it as being narrow. I.E. The forks on my wide glide vs my forks. My front end vs my wide glide front end. That sort of thing. I've heard guys that have done a mod to a bagger say that they put a narrow front end on their bike, but I never heard them say I put a narrow glide on my bagger. Who knows. It's not important anyway.
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I was just wondering why Harley even makes the narrow glide front ends?Does it serve some purpose? seems like nobody likes it and changes it out on thier bikes,hence all the narrow glide conversion kits.I would really like to know.I have ridden both and don't really feel a handling difference(very slight).
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Yeah it doesn't really matter I guess, but for me, the narrow glide term popped up after the creation of the 49 mm mid glide. Again for me, the mid glide is the perfect Dyna front end, but so is the wide and narrow, lol...
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