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Everything Breakout! Find out everything you need to know! Some topics include:
• Customizing you bike
• Seats
• Risers
• And much more!
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• Customizing you bike
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• Risers
• And much more!
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The Everything Breakout Thread
Road Captain
Joined: May 2017
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From: Indian Creek Village Florida
Dealerships order and stock their showrooms with the bikes that they think will sell! Most of the bikes I saw at Barnes HD were Street or Road Glide models or Softails, and one highly customized FatBoy S that had a Heartland rear kit, low bars, and low seat (for that Breakout look). 
Jim G
Jim G
it is so common here.
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From: Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
If you are considering footrests in order to get the feet a bit rearward for comfort, a miuch better solution is getting an aftermarket seat with the sitting position customized one inch forward. This makes handlebar reach and footpeg/shifter reach both better.
Jim G
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From: Great State of Canada
Footrests don't work well on a Breakout.Its gorund clearance is too low and itsa front suspension dives too much. It would in my opinion be unsafe. Heck, I am a very conservative rider and I drag the footpegs on some turns.
If you are considering footrests in order to get the feet a bit rearward for comfort, a miuch better solution is getting an aftermarket seat with the sitting position customized one inch forward. This makes handlebar reach and footpeg/shifter reach both better.
Jim G
If you are considering footrests in order to get the feet a bit rearward for comfort, a miuch better solution is getting an aftermarket seat with the sitting position customized one inch forward. This makes handlebar reach and footpeg/shifter reach both better.
Jim G
LA Dog's front end fix gets rave reviews and for good reason IMHO. I'd do that mod first. I've done all these mods and installed a fork brace too. I have a MUCH better handling ride than stock.
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From: Stuttgart, Germany
Be really careful about parking your bike with the kickstand on the "crest of a hill" (caused by the sloping tilt of the street. Look at the car parked down the street to see the slope) like in your photo above. It causes the bike to sit much more upright than normal, and makes it easy for a passing trobulemaker, or simply the wind, to knock it over.
Jim G
Jim G
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From: Stuttgart, Germany
I'm not a conservative rider but I never scrape my pegs. The first thing to touch the ground are my heels, they're my early warning system
There are couple of guys around here who swapped their pegs for floorboards and they are still riding their scoot w/o any trouble.
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From: Sulphur La.
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Road Captain
Joined: May 2017
Posts: 563
Likes: 135
From: Indian Creek Village Florida
Footrests don't work well on a Breakout.Its gorund clearance is too low and itsa front suspension dives too much. It would in my opinion be unsafe. Heck, I am a very conservative rider and I drag the footpegs on some turns.
If you are considering footrests in order to get the feet a bit rearward for comfort, a miuch better solution is getting an aftermarket seat with the sitting position customized one inch forward. This makes handlebar reach and footpeg/shifter reach both better.
Jim G
If you are considering footrests in order to get the feet a bit rearward for comfort, a miuch better solution is getting an aftermarket seat with the sitting position customized one inch forward. This makes handlebar reach and footpeg/shifter reach both better.
Jim G
Jim, there are things you can do that vastly improve your ride. That lousy front end is an easy fix with fixed rate springs and a set of Ricor Intiminators. See LA Dog's thread re this mod. Straight pegs with no feeler then work without issue and 2" fork extensions will get you a bit higher off the deck as well, if you like. With the extensions though, you need to install a 1 1/4" shoe on your kickstand.
LA Dog's front end fix gets rave reviews and for good reason IMHO. I'd do that mod first. I've done all these mods and installed a fork brace too. I have a MUCH better handling ride than stock.
LA Dog's front end fix gets rave reviews and for good reason IMHO. I'd do that mod first. I've done all these mods and installed a fork brace too. I have a MUCH better handling ride than stock.
If you are looking for foot pegs that are closer to your body, I bought a reduced reach seat from harley. brings your body closer to controls and a little lower to the ground. Unfortunately it is very uncomfortable. I had to install a gel cel pad, rides great now.
https://www.harley-davidson.com/stor...16-52000099--1
https://www.harley-davidson.com/stor...16-52000099--1
I made a big mistake with LePera Solo reduced reach seat - they said it pushes you 2 inches forward but it seems more like 3 inches forward ...
I'm a normal height 5'8" and dont have reach problems - the only problems i found were when i need to make sharp tight turns at parking lot (the bar goes so far forward depending on which way i turn so it's really hard to sit up right in order to turn the bike sharply.
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From: Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
Jim G
Road Captain
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From: Indian Creek Village Florida
Yes, you always want your feet ready to hit the brake pedal or change gears! The extra time required to move your feet to your controls from a "remote" peg or highway bar could be enough to kill you when a car moves into your path, and having to move your feet off one set of pegs to another during an emergency maneuver seriously compromises your ability to execute the maneuver successfully without losing control of the bike.
Jim G
Jim G