Here are some pics with the Legend Air mono shock installed, plus my new lights and grips. I also have a Trask Assault Charge air cleaner coming and then plan on getting the Thunderbike Headlight cap/fairing. I am loving this bike!

 

I wanna slam my fxbr sooo bad. Did you install this shock yourself? How difficult?
How much?
How slammed can you ride it? (Solo, of course)

 

I had a local shop do the install (3 hours). The shock itself is around $1600 US ($2600 cdn in Canada!). My shop knocked off a few hundred bucks for me.

I had all the same questions and the guys on this forum were super helpful. I will answer based on just a bit of riding time after the install.

I went back and forth between Legend and Shotgun. The advantage of the Shotgun is you can add air back into a soleniod to keep the suspension firm when you want to ride low, but I preferred the simplicity of the Legend design and the handlebar mounted controls on the Legend.
In reality the bike is already pretty low at stock height for daily riding (not hard to scrape the pegs on harder turns, ... ). Staring at the awful fender gap when the bike was sitting was what was killing me. So I concluded that I wouldn't be doing much riding while slammed on to the bump stops anyway and went with the Legend.

What I do is air the shock up until it is firm (around stock height). At that height there is still more sag when I sit on the seat than with the stock shock (I weigh 170 lbs). So I am already a bit lower than stock, then I release a touch more air to go a bit lower and ride at that height (probably an inch and a bit below stock ride height). The ride seems at least as good as with the stock shock to me. Then I release all the air to slam it when I park--looks so good!
* You can cruise around town with it slammed but you are on the bump stops so there is no travel. It is certainly tolerable but you might do some scraping on turns

Hope this helps.

 

Helped ALOT! Thanx.
Did you consider one of the "lowering" kits at all? What have you heard about those? (Man, I don't wanna spend that much money!)

 

No, I didn't. I really wanted Air.

I have heard that those lowering kits result in a pretty stiff ride. Personally, having driven lowered vehicles my entire life, I know I could live with it, but it all depends on the person! Might be worth a shot if that's your budget, or you could go with a shorter Progressive shock.

Good luck.

 

You're not wrong. I installed a Progressive lowering kit on mine, lowered it 2 inches and it rode like crap. I felt every single bump on the road. I raised it an inch and it's better but doesn't look as good.

 

I'm not interested in that then....

 

air every day all day long...!!!

 

 

Very cool. Did you have to retune the bike?