Just part of owning a FATBOY i guess!
Scraping Floorboards
Tourer
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 438
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From: Florida
One of the guys we ride with installed 2 nut and bolt combos using acorn nuts on the bottom outside edge of his floor board to scrape first and save the floor board.
Ive had my bike 5 yrs now 30000 mi and scrape almost at least once every time I ride. The right side floor board outter edge is mostly gone and I may replace the pan this summer but overall they go a lot longer than you would think.
IMO get used to it its part of owning a HD with floor boards!
Ive had my bike 5 yrs now 30000 mi and scrape almost at least once every time I ride. The right side floor board outter edge is mostly gone and I may replace the pan this summer but overall they go a lot longer than you would think.
IMO get used to it its part of owning a HD with floor boards!
Tourer
Joined: Aug 2008
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I scrape mine just about every time I ride, even coming out of my driveway. I can see no damage to my floorboards and I have had my bike almost four years. Make sure they are not too tight to fold up and have fun scrubbing off those chicken strips.
Road Captain
Joined: Jun 2008
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From: Southern Maryland for now
I ride with two guys on night trains, one on a classic and a fatbob and they all get a kick out of riding behind me on my deluxe through the curves throwing up sparks. I did the bolt mod on mine and its easier to replace a bolt every now and then and not a floorboard.
Tourer
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 283
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From: San Antonio, TX
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Cruiser
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Dallas, TX
In the "Ride Like a Pro" series Paladino says to learn where they scrape and get used to it. He scrapes them on all sharp low speed turns. Personally I get a little creeped out when I scrape on a faster turn; do that too far and you'll lever your tires off the street. I kind of like that idea of putting an acorn nut under there as a feeler.
Then one of my buddies told me, "Careful you don't catch those in a pothole while your draggin' 'em." Sh*t, after that I adjusted my riding style not to drag 'em.
Just my take on it.
