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The boards are a warning. Lot worse happens shortly after. I thought all the softails were on the same frame? Guess that's too simple.
I remember the salesman asking me to sit on the Fatboy and saying "Better check to see if it fits you". It did. Why would you buy a bike that doesn't fit you?
Frames are the same, the features are not...I've ridden a Fat Boy, and they're not meant to belaid into the curves...afriend of mine will be grinding the boards on his Fat Boy in the same curve my loweredNight Trainis nowhere near the pavement...
A Night Train has lean angles of 31.0/34.0 degrees...a Fat Boy
has 28.0/30.0 degrees...that's simple math...you're going to scrape and have bad things happen much sooner on a FB thana NT...
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