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Old Jul 31, 2015 | 12:40 PM
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Hi, my wife is taking over my sporster iron 2015.

If I can manage to lower the bike then I'm sure I would have an even happier wife.

Is it difficult? How do I go about it?

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Old Jul 31, 2015 | 12:53 PM
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Youll get about a hundred responses saying to go with the Burly slammers. My suggestion is that if you REALLY want a happy wife, you go with Progressive lowering shocks front and rear
 
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Old Jul 31, 2015 | 01:09 PM
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Youll get about a hundred responses saying to go with the Burly slammers. My suggestion is that if you REALLY want a happy wife, you go with Progressive lowering shocks front and rear
Thanks. What's better about progressive's lowering shocks? How difficult are they to install?
 
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Old Jul 31, 2015 | 01:14 PM
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DK Customs sells a rear lowering kit kit for around $69. Very simple to install as you only have to jack the bike up and disconnect the bottom shock bolts to install them.
Good quality product and you support a for vendor.
 
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Think it depends on how low you want to go...bury slammer is 10.5" eye to eye.
 
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