springer front ends
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From: lake elsinore
Ya it sure killed my weekend lol road about 45 min away to a buddies and saw it. Took the front off and welded the rod back then grinded the welds so it could fit in the holes thought I could baby it home. On the fwy about 60 and spring shot up had to get towd home.
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From: Breaux Bridge, LA
A couple of years. Mines pretty much a stock length, though. Could be the extra flex required for a longer front end was too much.
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From: Niles Canyon Ca.
Bud from long time experience with long front ends once you get past 4" over stock length on springers or the old girder frontends **** starts bending or breaking and yours by the looks is at least 12" to 14" over , springers are designed for very little rake to work properly . The dynamics and stresses that long beat hell outa the small parts as your finding out , only 41mm or larger tube fronts that long work and even those wear at an accelerated rate if you ride regular . Wears the tubes and bushing fast . I'm an old chopper guy , bent or broke them all over the years
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From: lake elsinore
Bud from long time experience with long front ends once you get past 4" over stock length on springers or the old girder frontends **** starts bending or breaking and yours by the looks is at least 12" to 14" over , springers are designed for very little rake to work properly . The dynamics and stresses that long beat hell outa the small parts as your finding out , only 41mm or larger tube fronts that long work and even those wear at an accelerated rate if you ride regular . Wears the tubes and bushing fast . I'm an old chopper guy , bent or broke them all over the years
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From: Niles Canyon Ca.
Rake is usually measured in degree's not inchs first off and I see a **** load of stretch on the backbone & down tubes on that frame to give you that long frontend but keeping the overall length down. I have no experience that brand name sorry , sometimes what we want isn't gonna work with the combination you have I'm afraid, all comes down to trade offs verses practicality . I have heard mixed about DNA stuff not just their frontends .
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From: IBEW Local 94
What about a sugar bear springer? My frames a 42" rake. And I wanna stay with the springer look. What would you recommend. Dna needs to go here's a pict of my bike
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Looking at your bike, I think the Sugar Bears would hold up well.
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From: lake elsinore
Ya I'm thinkin that too but man are they expensive but then again I guess its what you pay for.
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I posted a long thread a couple years back about a Paughco Springer vs the DNA. DNA are cheap junk forks. But they work. Paughco, Sugar Bear, Jerrys are good, but they cost a lost. Moco forks ride very nice as well. There is a reason Paughco costs five times as much. I never had a DNA break, but they do rattle and ride awful. Its your bike, its your call. If you searched Dyna Springer, you could probablly find lots of my old posts.
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Sugar Bear springers are expensive, but the best, it's good to see him getting the recognition he deserves.
Three-two choppers makes a great looking upgrade for DNA and Paughco springers.
Three-two choppers makes a great looking upgrade for DNA and Paughco springers.
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From: lake elsinore
I posted a long thread a couple years back about a Paughco Springer vs the DNA. DNA are cheap junk forks. But they work. Paughco, Sugar Bear, Jerrys are good, but they cost a lost. Moco forks ride very nice as well. There is a reason Paughco costs five times as much. I never had a DNA break, but they do rattle and ride awful. Its your bike, its your call. If you searched Dyna Springer, you could probablly find lots of my old posts.