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Jun 7, 2007 | 11:57 PM

#11

Guilty

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RE: Scraping floorboards - no give

Even with the floorboard nuts overtightened, at some point they will fold up...it just might take some equal force to get them back down in postiion again. Sounds like a good investment in the stabilizer, it'll probably my next purchase.

Jun 8, 2007 | 12:21 AM

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Bryan1724

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RE: Scraping floorboards - no give

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ORIGINAL: Guilty

Even with the floorboard nuts overtightened, at some point they will fold up...it just might take some equal force to get them back down in position again.

Well when you just touch them for the very first time and you have to stop and pickup your heart from the road.............. and then realize [sm=WTFsgign.gif] the boards never moved when they touched the road, the wheels start turning really quick. Something is a skew here. [sm=confused06.gif]My left board was froze up. I'm not a small person and with all my might I couldn't budge that left board. Corrosion, road gunk and probably a Gorilla that tightened the nuts up, that left board was solid. [:'(]But it's all good now.

Jun 8, 2007 | 12:40 AM

#13

PhilM

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RE: Scraping floorboards - no give

In addition to the two "hinge" bolts on the bottom of the board, it is possible that the mounting brackets are not aligned properly. They should easily "flop" up & down when you slightly loosen the bolts in Bryans pic. If not, then you need to check the brackets ~ where they are bolted to the frame.

Jun 8, 2007 | 01:44 AM

#14

sanaga

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RE: Scraping floorboards - no give

man.....i scrape my floor boards and the bracket too....the floor board can be fold up itself when u srcape hard...its happen to me all day long on the twisty road.....
please believe or not, im also scrape the edge of my lower fairing.....yeah LOWER FAIRING!!!!

Jun 8, 2007 | 12:36 PM

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iclick

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RE: Scraping floorboards - no give

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ORIGINAL: Streetrunner
The bike leans so good that I am now scraping the floor boards, even making a turn at 20 mph! Well, I just realized that my floorboards don't retract. Never realized it before 'cause I wasn't cornering as hard prior to the Touring XR.

If you don't like the lean angle and scraping floorboards, raise them up a notch. They can be raised at the front and rear bracket, so raise both. I did this and I have yet to scape the boards since doing it, although my kickstand still scaptes fairly easily on left corners. The SG is lowered which doesn't help in this regard, although I installed 12.5 in. shocks (up 1/2") which helped marginally. I also have floorboard extenders (out 3/4"), which I installed first and exascerbated the scaping problem I already had, which is what prompted me to raise the boards. That fixed the problem and after the first five minutes of riding I didn't even notice the height difference in foot position.