Shocks to lower
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From: northeast
you can use lowering blocks but WILL sacrifice ride... your best bet is to have your seat modded at MCC for about $150 OR save up and buy yourself an air ride system
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From: NY
I tried 1" lowered shocks and loosing the 1-1.25" shock travel is an issue esp if you ever ride 2up with bags loaded"
After goofing around with mult things i ended up using 1" lowering blocks that cost approx $50,2yrs & 16k miles later mostly riding 2up & bags loaded i have had no major issues thus far associated with that setup using stock airshocks on my 09 FLHTCU.
But i did have 1x i scraped a floorboard navigating a tight 10mph hairpin turn when i was going thru it @ approx 8-mph and thats it.
I also changed the oil in the stock rear airshocks from stock 5w to 10w shock oil (not 10w fork oil!) which helped dampening a lot.
It also improved overall ride & comfort too because i could run 50% less air pressure without bottoming out 2up vs when the rear shocks still had the thin 5w shock oil in them.
Scott
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I tried 1" lowered shocks and loosing the 1-1.25" shock travel is an issue esp if you ever ride 2up with bags loaded"
After goofing around with mult things i ended up using 1" lowering blocks that cost approx $50,2yrs & 16k miles later mostly riding 2up & bags loaded i have had no major issues thus far associated with that setup using stock airshocks on my 09 FLHTCU.
But i did have 1x i scraped a floorboard navigating a tight 10mph hairpin turn when i was going thru it @ approx 8-mph and thats it.
I also changed the oil in the stock rear airshocks from stock 5w to 10w shock oil (not 10w fork oil!) which helped dampening a lot.
It also improved overall ride & comfort too because i could run 50% less air pressure without bottoming out 2up vs when the rear shocks still had the thin 5w shock oil in them.
Scott
I tried 1" lowered shocks and loosing the 1-1.25" shock travel is an issue esp if you ever ride 2up with bags loaded"
After goofing around with mult things i ended up using 1" lowering blocks that cost approx $50,2yrs & 16k miles later mostly riding 2up & bags loaded i have had no major issues thus far associated with that setup using stock airshocks on my 09 FLHTCU.
But i did have 1x i scraped a floorboard navigating a tight 10mph hairpin turn when i was going thru it @ approx 8-mph and thats it.
I also changed the oil in the stock rear airshocks from stock 5w to 10w shock oil (not 10w fork oil!) which helped dampening a lot.
It also improved overall ride & comfort too because i could run 50% less air pressure without bottoming out 2up vs when the rear shocks still had the thin 5w shock oil in them.
Scott
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From: Bedford UK
Your swingarm is the most vulnerable to failure if you use lowering blocks, not something I would do! They are known to fracture across the slot the axle moves in.
