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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 06:36 AM
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Welcome! Congrats on the bike. I have an 08 Rocker I bought in 09 and love it!!! Suggestion - if you don't ride 2 up, they make some awesome after market seats (danny grey, etc) that are way more comfortable and put you in a lower/back position. Way b etter. Even the regular rocker seat is a big improvement (2" down/2 " back) and can be found on ebay cheap (just saw one for 75 bucks...). Hey, headsup, watch the wheel bearings, folks are getting failures on the road (chinese junk). I have had 2 failures, last one at 65!!! You can get both wheel bearings replaced with Timken or ALL ***** for less than a hundred bucks. Well worth it!!! Do a search on this site and you will see it's serious issue, but an easy/inexpensive solution. Ride safe.
 
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Rodzilla6
Hey, headsup, watch the wheel bearings, folks are getting failures on the road (chinese junk). I have had 2 failures, last one at 65!!! You can get both wheel bearings replaced with Timken or ALL ***** for less than a hundred bucks. Well worth it!!! Do a search on this site and you will see it's serious issue, but an easy/inexpensive solution. Ride safe.
Holy crap. Not a good feeling after just buying an American bike! Thanks for the heads up, I'll search around today.

Thanks Rodzilla.

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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 09:09 AM
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Congrats from a fellow softail owner.
 
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 09:30 AM
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Congrats and welcome. If you haven't already looked through the Rocker picture section,
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/softa...-pictures.html
 
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 10:10 AM
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Kowan
Congrats and welcome. If you haven't already looked through the Rocker picture section,
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/softa...-pictures.html
Guess I need to post 5 times and be a member 5 days before I can actually see a lot of the pics ... <twiddling thumbs>
 
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 10:20 AM
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Sorry, I forgot about that.
 
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Old Jan 10, 2012 | 07:45 PM
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Welcome to the Forum from Nashville TN. Nice bike, too bad there are so many chrome goodies to add, say goodbye to all your money. Hey, we're all broke this way, but what an addiction!!
 
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