Road Glide Pulls Left
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RE: Road Glide Pulls Left
ORIGINAL: winston chopper
I know traditionally left side drives are heavier to the left but I have seen other threads about adjustment to the front end to correct this. I am bad at remembering terms, there is a name for this adjust.. \\\\\\; My egc does the same. I would do a search and I think you will find some threads with a fix for this. I dont really mind it myself.
I know traditionally left side drives are heavier to the left but I have seen other threads about adjustment to the front end to correct this. I am bad at remembering terms, there is a name for this adjust.. \\\\\\; My egc does the same. I would do a search and I think you will find some threads with a fix for this. I dont really mind it myself.
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RE: Road Glide Pulls Left
Yep. same here. Noticed it when I rode it away from dealer 3 weeks ago on my '08. What I noticed more was that running straight down the road, the bars were slightly turned. You steer straight by looking straight, not by turning the bars straight. This meant that the upper triple clamp wasn't correctly aligned with the bottom triple clamp. Having the forks slightly twisted, like this, makes it pull to one side, along with making the bars slightly turned, in order to go straight. Itâs happened to other of their new bikes but is more noticeable, on the Road Glide, because it is easy to see that the plastic piece above the bars isnât straight compared to the plastic piece just above it, under the radio. To fix it the tech had to remove the lock so he could slide the upper fork cover up to gain access to the bottom triple clamp fork clamp bolts. He loosened them &\\;, with the front tire clamped on the lift table, it was easy to force the bars back straight, which actually turned the top triple clamp a little to align it with the bottom clamp. Apart &\\; together it took him a little over 2 hrs. Tracks straight (no hands) and bars are straight. Later,,, De
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RE: Road Glide Pulls Left
I noticed the same thing on my 08'RG as well. I tried riding without my hands on the bars several times. When I do it pulls so hard left it is hard to shift my weight enough to make it go straight. The crown in the road will always make them pull right because the road slopes away from the center to the edge. The reason you don't notice it with your hands on the bars is because without even realizing it you are constantly counter steering to make corrections.
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