For those that have done the wideglide conversion with the 2 degree OEM trees, how do it handle and steer as compaired to before? I just bought a 21" talk off wheel from an 08' wideglide and Now I need to decide if I want to do the whole conversion of lace the rim to the stock hub. The one thing I don't want to give up is handling.

 

You will not notice a difference. 2 degrees is like nothing and the wide glide makes no difference. I did a 6 degree wide glide. LOVED the way it turned...

 

Well i did it all! I was going to lace it up also, but after alot of thinking it doesnt cost much more than just buying the wg trees! And now if i ever want to buy a different rim i dont have to lace it to a mid hub,i just put it on! What i can say besides it looks way better is now around 80 or higher i get bad wobbles,something i need to figure out! But would never go back! Even if i cant figure out the wobble!

all in all after i sold my old stuff and saved the money on the hub change over i think the wg trees came free and i even came out with a few bucks! No brainer!

 

did mine in winter 07....never had a problem @ speed or otherwise including handling. Handling actually seemed to improve but probably because of the 120 front tire. Plus it looks bitchin'

 

No problems here, still handles great

 

Mine handles fine. In fact I think it is better than it was before.

 

i did mine last winter

i did notice a slight difference at high speeds....

i think it was because i had put 11progs on the back while using stock WG tubes up front with a 21inch wheel

this winter, i replaced the WG tubes with my streetbob tubes and replaced the 2.15 wheel with a 3.25....should be cool, now

 

So you guys don't think adding 5 degrees of rake will hurt?

I wanna do this. Love the look. Don't care about nimble handling since I'm a slow cruising style of rider. Never get above 75 mph. Never spend any time in the twisties really. I do wanna be safe though.

 

I bought my 98 Wide Glide used. The guy had installed +5° trees and +4" fork tubes. I ride hard...constantly scraping pavement, even with the stock length rear suspension cranked all the way up. I do get wobbles on high speed sweeper curves with dips or bumps in them, but this is 75+ mph. I'm not 100% sure that these wobbles are initiating from the front end though. Before I ride this year (God bless Minnesota...cough, cough) I'll be installing a True-Track so I guess I'll find out if they're front end related. Slow speed is a little more unstable. Bumper-to-bumper traffic and parking lot maneuvering requires more finesse and attention than and other bike I've ridden. This is my first HD, but I've ridden a couple dozen or so other HD's both before and after owning this one.

 

Thanks for everone's input,I'm definatly going to go with the wideglide trees.