Performance baggers
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Joined: Mar 2010
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From: South of Mordor
I am assuming you shaved the peg mount tabs off the Dyna mounts to get a flat surface and mounted the pegs solid with no folding give to them.
Couple reasons:
I'm 6'4 270. I have owned 2 dynas and built them like this. They are just to small of a bike for me
a major riding difference is the swingarm bolts to the frame. Not the transmission like a dyna does. So it shares the thought process as an fxr as far as not having transmission vibrations running through the swingarm.
It's fun turning a bike that wasn't commonly thought I'd as a canyon ripper into one.
For me the fixed fairing gives the wind protection I need plus speakers but is frame mounted so it doesn't have a heavy front end.
Leather pro bags hold way more that standard Harley bags and you don't scrape them in uphill sweepers in the canyons
I'm 6'4 270. I have owned 2 dynas and built them like this. They are just to small of a bike for me
a major riding difference is the swingarm bolts to the frame. Not the transmission like a dyna does. So it shares the thought process as an fxr as far as not having transmission vibrations running through the swingarm.
It's fun turning a bike that wasn't commonly thought I'd as a canyon ripper into one.
For me the fixed fairing gives the wind protection I need plus speakers but is frame mounted so it doesn't have a heavy front end.
Leather pro bags hold way more that standard Harley bags and you don't scrape them in uphill sweepers in the canyons
Road Warrior
Joined: May 2017
Posts: 1,797
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From: WI
You have a bike that you can rip up the twisties at speeds no 800lb bike should be able to do, and later that day you can load up your S/O and 60lbs of gear and head out on a 400 mile trip in comfort that's simply not achievable on a smaller bike like a Dyna, softail, etc.
As much as I'd love to have a highly modded Lowrider S, I know it won't ever tick off all the boxes I need to keep me and the wife happy.
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Joined: May 2010
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From: san diego
Yes. I buzzed them off to make flat mating surface and then just drilled them to accept the foot controls
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Joined: Sep 2020
Posts: 85
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From: Florida
Willing to bet it costs more money and works worse than a regular Öhlins.
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I gotta say, for the Road Glides the Leather Pro's are really starting to grow on me. Looks killer man.
Nothing much been done on mine lately. Pretty happy with where it sits right now. Did Galfer brake pads all around. Hoping for a little less dust than the factory garbage, these talon wheels are hard to clean...lol
Nothing much been done on mine lately. Pretty happy with where it sits right now. Did Galfer brake pads all around. Hoping for a little less dust than the factory garbage, these talon wheels are hard to clean...lol
