Harley lowering - fact or opinions please

[scumdog]

Sorry was going to read the whole thread but got bored
If your bikes a sportster or its compatible ill trade you my fork tubes (off my hugger) for yours. I believe the huggers front forks are shorter.
You keen?....and after i post this i should prolly check where you are......

I could do this - but if it turns out a disaster I'll be screwing up a good T-Sport.

[Nzpure]

Remember: Life is not a rehersal and "ships are safe in the harbour - but that's not what ships are for".

OOOoooh go on mate! You know you wanna...plus i wanna raise the front of mine lol.

[Nzpure]

Oh yea and mine has fresh fork seals

[scumdog]

Oh yea and mine has fresh fork seals

Nah, not yet.

ANd anyway, mine will have two brand-new discs and pads.

[idb]

Just by winding the springs down on the serrated adjuster at the bottom of the shock.

Fill the panniers up with sand...done and done...

[scumdog]

Fill the panniers up with sand...done and done...

Goodness, why did I not ask you in the first place???

Please ship to me two panniers of Arrow River sand. Preferably chock full of gold dust.

[idb]

Goodness, why did I not ask you in the first place???

I was wondering the same thing

[98tls]

It's the lower muffler on the right side that's more of a problem, it's scuffed to hell already.

Even Dangerous couldn't scrape the clutch-cover - but he did scrape the frame just behind it...a place I've never scraped before.

Mate he rides a motorcycle built with the motor facing the wrong way so chances are he would scrape the odd thing nobody else would when riding one with the motor put in rightstill remember the first time i ever rode anywhere with him..up the valley towards Johns place,nice big sweepers beside the lakes going quickish and tucked up behind him on the TL i see the knee hanging outi think wtf is he doing then i get ithes using his knee to protect those pretty cylinder heads

[Kickaha]

I'll be screwing up a good T-Sport.

I didn't realise they built one

[doc]

Just lengthen the tassles it will look lower with them draggin. Pretty simple really

[scumdog]

Just lengthen the tassles it will look lower with them draggin. Pretty simple really

Oi!!

(I wouldn't go wearing tassles if I were you, looking lower is something ya don't need!)

[doc]

Tassles ????? I think you mean dags

[sinfull]

Scraping the lower mufler already and ya wanna drop it ? hehe madness scummy absolute madness !
Bad enough handling as they are with having to stop at every corner so you can get around it ! The Dyna will dig in one day man, the mufflers may scrape but that bit of the frame you say Dangerous had touching, will dig in and throw ya rear around beside ya if you touch it down hard enough.
I went the other way on the FXR (and they don't even have that silly cross member you have hanging underneith) and when RT sorted a new set of Ohlins for me, we actually lengthened the eye and then they found another 14 mm internally !
Thought i might have had to lengthen the forks to compensate but it's worked out brilliant and handles like it's on rails !

On another note, a mate of mine has just stuck a T-sport fairing on his old sporty and it looks fucking mint , had to swap out the triples trees but he was on a mission to have a fairing !!

[scumdog]

On another note, a mate of mine has just stuck a T-sport fairing on his old sporty and it looks fucking mint , had to swap out the triples trees but he was on a mission to have a fairing !!

You bastids!
I've been trying for years to score a T-sport fairing, boody years!!

And I think I would have to swap the trees too as I suspect 'somebody' in the Land of the Rising Sun must have swapped them over there cos when I got the bike (only 6,000km) it had no fairing and the trees did not have the lugs on them that the T-Sports I have seen have.

Mines an '01 so MAYBE they had a different attachment system but I doubt it.

Bastid!
PS: I now ride 95% one-up so can afford to lower the bike a tad, I'm only going to drop it an inch or less and try it out, not doing anything permanent at this stage.

[sinfull]

Bastid!
PS: I now ride 95% one-up so can afford to lower the bike a tad, I'm only going to drop it an inch or less and try it out, not doing anything permanent at this stage.

Think it was a TM purchase too !
I'm just presuming it's a T-sport fairing cause aint seen anything like it on anything else !
Will tell him to hola if he knows of another or gets sick of it (doubt that as it does look cool) or sells the bike without !

If your only doing this to change appearances why not try changing the front end and headlight etc, 4" overs, wide glide trees or something completely different, softail rear guard and tail light etc single seat ! All resaleable extras and will make you look like your riding a different bike ! Be hard to push around corners and may run wide due to 4" overs but look almost choppish lol