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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 02:36 PM
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I thought that I was the only one that ever done things like that. Happens to me a lot.
 
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 02:41 PM
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Damn, that sucks big time.
 
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 02:47 PM
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Maybe you can trim those puppies down 3/8" or so?
 
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 02:51 PM
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Maybe you can trim those puppies down 3/8" or so?
I'm sorry for him but I'd like to understand why it happened. I have 2 friends who have Ultra Classics and they have these fork air deflectors mounted and they clear the lower fairings even when they lock the fork. There must be a trick.
 
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 03:02 PM
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2 days ago I mounted the newly painted set of fairing lowers onto my RKC that I was so proud of. What I wasn't aware of and gave it not consideration until I went for a ride, that you can't have chrome wind deflectors and lowers on at the same time. When I turned the forks to lock, the chrome wind deflectors scrapped about 1/2" of paint off of the lower caps. Back to the paint shop again. I learn something new everyday about Harleys. It would have only took 1/8" less width on the chrome wind deflectors and you could have both.

Who else found this out the hard way?
By the way I love the look on the road King with the lowers on........
 
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 03:04 PM
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I've heard some people have trimmed the deflectors and that worked
 
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Old Jan 19, 2010 | 03:09 PM
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I'm sorry for him but I'd like to understand why it happened. I have 2 friends who have Ultra Classics and they have these fork air deflectors mounted and they clear the lower fairings even when they lock the fork. There must be a trick.
They may have the non-vented lowers. The non-vented lowers are made differently than the vented style.

I may as well get use to it without the chrome wind deflectors anyhow. I'll be putting a Batwing fairing on eventually.
 
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They may have the non-vented lowers. The non-vented lowers are made differently than the vented style.

I may as well get use to it without the chrome wind deflectors anyhow. I'll be putting a Batwing fairing on eventually.
No they're vented, they're 2009 Ultras. Search the Forum, you'll find several posts about these fork deflectors on Ultras. Several guys have them.
 
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