any pic's out there ?

 

Kevin of DK Custom has some pic's and maybe a video on his '11. Just can't remember what thread he posted it in. Hopefully he may reply while on vacation.

 

The freewheeler will pop the front wheel in the first 2 gears rather easy but wheelies I'm not interested in excepts seeing someone else do it.

 

Wheelies??? WHY?? Read any of the posts about the cost of replacing the drive belt??


Guess you could impress the hell out of power wheel chairs. Just can't get a handle on high speed mega-powerful wheelie doing trikes. Guess I'm just too old.

 

Cause they're fun!

 

i knew someone would be doing it !

 

Previous pic I posted was on an '11.

Here is a pic and a video of wheelies on a '14











Click HERE to see video

 

I will admit I tried one before the new belt was installed (figured if it broke, so what, already scheduled to replace it under warranty) .. got the front wheel up, but it kinda shocked me how easy it came up and I let it slam a little on the down side. I'm guessing it only got up an inch or two, maybe a little more, really easy to get it up though.

 

Yeah, you go up too far and it will scrap the bottom of your slip-ons or end-caps.

Over a period of time, I ground off a good 1.5 inches off the bottom of my Rush slip-ons that were on the '11.

On the '14, just doing the one big wheelie pictured above I scraped some pretty large gouges in polished billet end-caps...fortunately I had already decided to replace them.

 

The other down side to wheelies can be blow fork seals if you set it down to hard. Fork seals don't like the big pressure spike when the forks are slammed back down. I had the front end up a couple times on the 2010 Triglide I had, both times I wasn't looking to do it. I was in 1st gear making a turn when car decided he was going to make the same turn. I snapped the throttle open and up come the front end. I set it down so I could steer to straighten out the trike from the turn, then snapped the throttle open again and up come the front end again.

On on my 06 Ultra, I'll pick the front end up a couple times a month. It doesn't take much with the 120" engine.