Air ride questions
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Cruiser
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Air ride questions
I'm considering installing air ride this winter. I have progressive coil overs 12inch, so it has a 1 inch drop over factory. Now my question is this I'm looking for that certain stance, to achieve it I'd need 11.5-11-75 shocks. That being said would air ride compromise that by saying having to ride around with say 40psi and barely airing the shocks up so that it had that particular stance. I don't want to ride around at 13 inches because that is what it takes to make a comfy ride and then only be able to drop it when it's parked.
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I have 13 inch air ride shocks. I air up to 13 when riding and then air down as I'm coming to a stop. The trick is that I put an Ultra switch housing on the left with PTT on my Streetglide and used the PTT as my air ride control switch. I can air up and down without having to take my hands off the bars. Easy as hitting the volume control or turn signals.
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Cruiser
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That's the exact point I'm making, I don't want to air up to 13 inches while riding I want it to sit at 11.5. I don't want to put air ride on so that it looks like a stock bike when riding, but only drops when I have it parked.
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You have much to learn young grasshopper...
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Cruiser
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I wouldn't call it much to learn I'm just after something specific and don't want to compromise. I don't want to waste time and money with air ride if it doesn't give me the look I'm after. I'll reiterate I don't do long trips, so all this talk about I don't know what I'm doing because I need brakes for better doing while on the highway or that air ride is great for long trips. I was considering it because to buy a decent set of coil overs is 200 buks I Vann install air ride for not much more
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Your 93 FLHS has air shocks already, no?
Install a Burly lowering kit (about a hundred bucks) & let the air out of the shocks, or for even less, check ebay for a set of struts; you can find them there for about ten bucks.
Install a Burly lowering kit (about a hundred bucks) & let the air out of the shocks, or for even less, check ebay for a set of struts; you can find them there for about ten bucks.
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no, have 12 inch coil overs. And don't want to use the stock air shocks. I can but 11.5 air shocks but again for just a little more can have fully adjustable air ride. Same with the lowering kit. For another 150 can have air ride. And don't really like the idea of lowering blocks.
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The air ride on my bike has about 5 inches of travel, they go from 9.25 deflated to 14 all the way up. I normally ride around with up about 2-3 inches, then dump the air when I go to park it.
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that's what I'm looking at for my bike. Is the ride quality decent at 2-3 inches even riding double up?
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