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Mar 25, 2013 | 06:53 PM

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roadster02

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From: colorado

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Originally Posted by springer 03

That experience must have left you with a huge pucker factor! I've never had to lean my bike over that much that I touched the boards or mounts. I have the HG extensions along with the Harley forward boards. No way do I want to experience what you did!

Yeah, I thought my butt took chunks out of the seat. It was definitely a white knuckle experience for both of us.

Mar 25, 2013 | 07:08 PM

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Glockmeister

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Originally Posted by roadster02

I bought some of those floorboard extensions to install on my 05 Ultra. They seemed to work as advertised, but when I went for a ride on MTN two lane "twisties", the extensions allowed my floor board mounts, not the boards, but the mounts themselves to contact the pavement on a righthand corner, lifting the bike up and forcing me over into the left lane. Lucky for me and the wife that there was not a car coming thru the corner in the opposite lane or we would have had a headon. Needless to say as soon as we got back home those "extensions" came off. If you ride your dresser agressively at all, and like to really lean into your turns, those extensions are NOT a good idea IMO.

I'm wondering if what you think happened is actually what DID happen. If you have the the engine guards installed and lean your bike over on them the HG extensions still do not touch. The floor boards will touch and fold up, but the mount extension will not touch.

Do you still have those extensions, and if so, have you looked to see if there were any scrape marks on them?

It seems that there are other, more likely, scenarios.

Mar 25, 2013 | 08:22 PM

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roadster02

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Of course I inspected the bottom of the floorboard and mount. There were scrape marks on the bottom of the factory steel mounts to the frame where the mount starts it's curve upward. By pushing the mounts out 1 inch further, it allowed the curved part of the mount to now contact the ground. The bike was engineered from the factory to not allow the mounts to hit, the floorboard itself would scrape, but the mounts would not, but by modifying the mounts position and pushing it out 1 inch or so away from the frame it enabled contact on a hard right turn. There was no other explanation. I have ridden that stretch of road several times since the extensions were removed, and with the same passenger, speed, and lean angle, if anything contacts the pavement now it is the floorboard, which is how it's supposed to be.

Last edited by roadster02; Mar 25, 2013 at 10:43 PM.