CVO Rear Shocks
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Road Master
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CVO Rear Shocks
I just installed a set of the CVO rear shocks on my 09 Road Glide. They work very nicely. I has the 13's that came on the bike. The CVO's are 12 inch and they still work better then the 13's. I like the 1 inch drop in the rear.
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If you do in fact have the same shocks that come on my bike, behind the left saddle bag ( if your on the bike left side) there is a *** that you can turn to adjust pre-load. There are different settings on how many clicks for certain weight, each click you hear is at the half turn mark. If you need a setting pm me and we can go over the weight you need to set for. I hadn't done this until after I put over 1K miles on the bike in 4 days, and man what a difference when set up properly, lol.
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Road Master
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If you do in fact have the same shocks that come on my bike, behind the left saddle bag ( if your on the bike left side) there is a *** that you can turn to adjust pre-load. There are different settings on how many clicks for certain weight, each click you hear is at the half turn mark. If you need a setting pm me and we can go over the weight you need to set for. I hadn't done this until after I put over 1K miles on the bike in 4 days, and man what a difference when set up properly, lol.
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can these shocks be used on an 04 bike? i like the way they ride on my 12 but it appears they mount differently than the 04 shocks?
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They mount the same.... but your swingarm won't be able to handle the stress of having compression and rebound damping split between the two shocks. One side is compression, and the other is rebound..... The later swingarms are a lot beefier.
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Your preload is set to rigid, lighten up on spring pressure, follow sag rules, very import to set proper sag 1st, then fine tune with ****...
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He probably won't get your advice...
He posted that 13 years ago, and hasn't posted here since 2018...
You could try sending him a private message, but no guarantees he even still has the bike...
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