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Old 10-27-2009, 03:37 PM
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for my 09 FXDC.

I figured there was no sense doing one without the other so WTF, go for broke...
 
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I have the screaming eagle version of the brace, but I haven't pull the trigger on the True-track yet. Make sure you post some feed back afer the install on the performance of your bike.. You only live once!
 
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Old 10-27-2009, 04:38 PM
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I have the screaming eagle version of the brace, but I haven't pull the trigger on the True-track yet. Make sure you post some feed back afer the install on the performance of your bike.. You only live once!
I will, but it may be some months from now. I'm probably going to have the bike
painted so I'll probably install this and some other stuff when the bike's stripped
down and that probably won't happen until late November.
 
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The Superbrace is a piece of cake and big improvement, wouldn't wait to do that. The TrueTrack is a bit more work, but if you're talking months, .... I'd go for it too. Slow and careful took me most of a morning sweating and grunting, but the advantage you have would be not worrying too much about your paint if that's a couple of months out anyway.

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I thought the new frame eliminated the need for a brace, am I wrong?
 
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The superbrace makes only posing sense for newer bikes, especially 44mm forks. Adds no function. Its advice left over from older bikes.

A chassis stabilizer helps, you can purchase the front half only (Sputhe), saves some work and $$$ and gets you 90% there.
 

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I agree the fork brace is wasted money but the forks are 49mm not 44.

the truetrack was a huge improvement in handling that I wouldn't consider doing halfway.
 
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I have 49mm forks and without a doubt the fork brace made a difference. Take whatever advice you like, but two noticeable changes for me were freeways with rain grooves and hitting a serious bump in a turn.

I added the Superbrace after the Truetrack and could feel the change in handling for both mods.

Before the fork brace I had to adjust steering in those situations, sometime holding the bars off track to keep the bike heading where I wanted. Now I hold the bars in the same exact position before and after a bump or getting caught in a grove and the bike stays were I want.

Try sitting on you scoot and throw the front end back and forth as hard as you can. If your wheel moves off from the bars, that's the forks twisting.

What keeps the forks aligned side to side is the support between them, not the thickness of the tubes, stock bike = the front fender.
 
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What keeps the forks aligned side to side is the support between them, not the thickness of the tubes, stock bike = the front fender.
Actually the triple trees are what keeps the fork tubes in alignment.
 
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Actually, the lowers can rotate around the tubes. The only thing that stops that is the connection between them not the triple tree.
 


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