LOWERING floorboards?
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LOWERING floorboards?
I know footboards can be moved out with spacer kits and that the MOCO makes extended footboards, but has anyone ever tried to move them DOWN? I'm 6'6" with a 38" inseam, so leg room is a challenge for me - to say the least! My thighs slope upward on my '09 FLTR with my feet on the extended floorboards now and I would love to move them down an 1" or so.
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Don't know if anyone makes something for that but scraping the footboards would be my concern.
I have some aftermarket foot boards on my Street Glide that are longer than stock and thus sit a little closer to the ground in the back.
They will scrape on occasion and I'm nowhere near an agressive rider.
Just coming up a 180 deg offramp with a little too much speed will cause me to scrape my rightside board.
Good luck with your quest.
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I have some aftermarket foot boards on my Street Glide that are longer than stock and thus sit a little closer to the ground in the back.
They will scrape on occasion and I'm nowhere near an agressive rider.
Just coming up a 180 deg offramp with a little too much speed will cause me to scrape my rightside board.
Good luck with your quest.
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I know footboards can be moved out with spacer kits and that the MOCO makes extended footboards, but has anyone ever tried to move them DOWN? I'm 6'6" with a 38" inseam, so leg room is a challenge for me - to say the least! My thighs slope upward on my '09 FLTR with my feet on the extended floorboards now and I would love to move them down an 1" or so.
I have the same issue on a 2004 E-glide classic. I've considered moving them forward about two inches and out about 1 inch.
I was pursuing the fabrication of a set of brackets to do just that. I've contemplated two ways: One to just create another bracket to bolt up to the existing brackets..sort of a spacer, and another to actually just create a bracket to move the floor boards instead of where they mount.
Moving them forward would extend your legs a bit..lower your knees...so forward 3 or so inches..out an inch or so..and maybe down an inch..all together would provide a much more natural position I think (for those of us that have LOoooNG legs )
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If you lower them you will be scraping them very often, I tried it. Could become an issue in an emergency avoid. I found the best thing to do is fabricate some foward controls to your bagger and do away with the boards for taller drivers. Or you could move the boards fowrad at more of an andle and fit the forward controls to that. It will take a bit of work but should work out nicely for taller riders.
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I would not lower them for the reasons previously mentioned. I am not quite as tall, 6'3, but I fixed my issues by moving the foot boards forward 1.5 " and out 3/4" and a Brawler seat. I am looking into a custom seat to move me up and back a few inches. In the mean time I use the hyway pegs to stretch out.
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As many of you pointed-out, scraping while cornering was a concern of mine as well and one of my reasons for asking for opinions. I've yet to scrape on my '09 FHTR, but did several times with my '06 FLHR. I've thought about the tallboy seat to move me up and back, but then suspect I'd need to replace the handlebars. To my surprise and despite my 37" sleeve lenght, the stock bars are quite a reach for me and I was thinking of replacing them to bring them up ~2" and back ~2". Putting a Tallboy seat on now would make this bad situation even worse. This sounds like an off-season project when I can have it apart for sometime and consider options without any (self-imposed) pressure to get it back on the road. Regardless, sounds like lowering the boards is a bad idea.
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I'm 6'6" with the same inseam. Here was my fix. C&C seat 1 inch down and 2 inches back. Accutronix 9" forward controls. I didn't have to do anything else. Bike fits perfect. I also looked into lowering the boards, but didn't think about it any further because there are obvious consequences to do that.
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On the 08's it is possible to move them down a bit. The front of the frame has 2 holes for the bracket. You can remove the bolt from the top hole(assuming it is in the top hole) and rotate the bracket down after loosening the rear bolt a bit. Tighten it all back up. It will not give you that much more room, but I am sure it will help.
You can also consider adding a lower seat as was mentioned above and/or different bars to custom tailor the bike more to you.
You can also consider adding a lower seat as was mentioned above and/or different bars to custom tailor the bike more to you.
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