My 99 fat boy is an awesome bike other than the fact that my solid wheels are like sails here in the desert, I picked up some 05 heritage spokes from a buddy and got the front on with a new rotor and wheel spacers so no big deal, the rear though is fighting me. I got a new sprocket and rotor and a wheel spacer kit from lowbrow customs but I can't get the belt to quit rubbin the tire unless I swap to different wheel spacers that obviously do not work.... I'm at a loss on what todo now, other than the hub changing from the 6 year difference in not sure what else would be different. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Offsets changed when going to 130 tire widths to 150 width.

 

Loosen the spokes on the left side an 1/8 of a turn and then tighten the ones on the right an 1/8 turn until you have belt clearance!

 

What sprocket did you get? They are not all created equal. You can use a pulley spacer if needed

 

get a pulley spacer...I had to do that on my 93 when I put a 170 under it

 

Make sure the belt has enough space to move out on the secondary drive with the new sprocket spacer, otherwise it needs to "bend" and it is not designed to do that.

You can also think about a 20mm belt (if you not already have that size), it is 5mm narrower than a 1" belt.

 

I don't like spokes. Just a pain to do a tire repair and something else to go wrong when they get loose. I just sent my front wheel to shiny ***** and had them do the cutouts on the solid wheel. Still heavy but does better in the crosswind

 

That sounds like a really bad idea.

I have had this bike for 10 years and I think the whole wind and solid wheel thing is BS.
I also have a spoke wheel bike and if its windy they both get blown around.
JMHO

 

We should ask Mythbusters!!

 

My wife rides a 2013 Fatty and says it hasn't bothered her at all. And we can get some winds off Lake Erie ridding over the Sandusky bay bridge.