My 08 RoadGlide has the front fork lowering kit on it , can I hook up a 08TLE to it or do I have to go back to the stock fork length? Also I have after market rear air shocks with its own compressor will those work also? I know it's lots of questions from the newbe but please bear with me guys. So far you have been great and I have learned so much just reading the threads and I'm ready to do this and become HACKED it looks and sounds like so much fun.Thanks for your help.
Things will fit with the front end lowered but you sacrifice ground clearance.
My lowered RK rig would scrape a lot over speed bumps if I wasn't careful.
An option would be to upgrade to the trike trees and tubes which come as a package. you'd be killing two birds that way. The ground clearance and the steering difficulty, since these tubes are 2" longer than stock and will level out the bike with the raked trike trees.
Power steering and ground clearance for the price of either. A win, win situation.
The air shocks will be fine.
Lonnie
Northwest Sidecars
I have a classic with a TLE on it and lowered the front and rear, no issues with installing, i did find that if i raised the lower frame mount the lean brace then lined up a lot better
i installed the liberty trees WITHOUT the spacer - so its lowered one inch in front
i have a 15" car tire on the rear so its lowered 2"
handles great on the freeway - speed bumps - no go - i ride the bike frame at a gap or edge or go around
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ps - i get sore wrists - im 6.2 over 300 with small hands - id never run a sidecar without raked trees - the wrist pain is just not worth it. [im also not 22 anymore - when i was 22 i rode all over the mountains without a raked tree]
Lonnie where can I get trike trees and downtubes together?
These items are only available through Harley dealers on special order.
They are replacement parts for the new TriGlide trikes.
Lonnie
So the TriGlide trees and down tubes will work on an 08 Roadglide. I thought I would have to go with the Liberty trees or Champion. Is the Triglide set up about a 5 degree rake? Do you have part # for these?
the tri glide parts will work
its about the same amount of labor
check the parts price and then decide
