New FXFBS Rider
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Mine came with black fasteners; perhaps yours was ordered earlier? I ditched the bottom ones in favor of my Willie G skull license plate bolts. Necessitated drilling a bigger hole through the CD plate holder, but they're on now.
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Road Warrior
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You DO have a choice! That screw is in the centre portion of the tire, so you can almost certainly just have it professionally plugged from the inside with a mushroom head plug.
Looks like you have some kind of sealant in there already? Just ride the bike to a reputable bike tire shop and have them plug it properly. They will tell you if it will be OK or not, but I have ridden many thousands of high speed, highway miles on tires with plugged wounds like that with no issue.
Don't just do a DIY job from the outside and call it done whatever you do!
Looks like you have some kind of sealant in there already? Just ride the bike to a reputable bike tire shop and have them plug it properly. They will tell you if it will be OK or not, but I have ridden many thousands of high speed, highway miles on tires with plugged wounds like that with no issue.
Don't just do a DIY job from the outside and call it done whatever you do!
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Road Warrior
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http://www.blackmillperformance.com/...vidson-fat-bob
remove stock bracket, get bolt-on license plate relocation kit now shipping with black fasteners, add CD LED frame and LHS HD stalk, install. cleans up back end nicely.
*Never mind. I figured it out. Thanks. Will be ordering sometime in the near future.
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The Custom Dynamics plate frame came with black hardware.....
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... I also have never had a bike with ABS so I don't know if wheel removal would affect anything with the ABS? Any help and suggestions on this are appreciated. Also I don't know if I could trust a tire shop with removing and installing my wheel properly ... need a service manual to study and familiarize myself with this bike and how to work on it. Can't find any videos or literature online about tire removal on this bike either.
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Right -- I figured that out later, should have edited my comment... yeah, I replaced the bolts with black ones, but it's good to see they're including black with the kit now definitely.
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Road Warrior
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Awesome! I greatly appreciate that! Time to get to work! Thanks again.
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Welcome to the family from Alabama! I did the same thing Saturday had to have it went home with it 😎
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Road Warrior
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Thanks! Nice ride. I really like the white but wasn't gonna wait around for one so I went with what they had. I still dig the black denim as well though.
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Road Warrior
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Tire update
I removed the wheel and tire today and go figure, no shop around here is willing to patch the tire for me so it looks like I'm off the road for a bit until the new tire comes in. At least I'm saving about 180 bucks on labor doing the work myself and the HD shop is giving me a 10% discount on the tire so that's a bit better than full price at least! It just sucks not to be able to ride my new bike but that's life so I just gotta suck it up and deal with it. Thanks again everyone for the suggestions and help. I greatly appreciate it.
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