I found a really good deal on a set of ABS wheels and will probably buy them. They are from a 2011Road Glide Ultra. I'm pretty sure they fit my 09 Road King Classic but they are ABS and my bike is not. Will they work for my bike without having to mod them or my bike? I'm gonna buy them either way. If they don't work I'll just resale them and make a few bucks.

 

they will work, many will tell you to change out the abs bearing for a non abs one.

i had an experience in 2011 where i ran off the road in yellow stone park and bent a front wheel after i had put on a new set of tires about 5 hours earlier.

the dealer where it was towed had a takeoff wheel that he sold me that was abs, my bike was non abs.

they just mounted the undamaged front tire on the new rim and installed it without changing bearings. i rode approximately 13 thousand miles on that wheel that way with zero issues.

this was during the hoka hey in 2011 and the bike was in continuous use every day all day till finished.

when i sold the bike it was still set up with the front wheel this way.

so it can be used as is, but you may prefer to update bearings

 

It will work, the abs bearing is set up for the sensor but should work either way

 

ABS bearings are WIDER

The REAR flatout won't work without doing something and the only way someone could try to use the FRONT without doing something would be to turn the wheel around and run it backwards with the ABS bearing on the right. It will still be "off", but not as much as using as intended with the ABS on the left. You would also be spreading the forks 3mm.

YEAH, don't do that. It's just not "right"


Typically as mentioned the bearings usually are changed to STD (Non ABS), but...

If you found a set of wheels with good low mileage ABS bearings, you could use "reduced length" spacers Front-Left and Rear-Right and then change bearings later whenever maintenace or repair was needed along with re-installing the original spacers.


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You would need to change the spacers front and back. The ABS Bearing is 22mm thick and the non ABS 15 mm thick. I would just replace all the Bearings so there are no mistakes down the road, the RG wheels are 6 years old.

22 mm was wrong the correct measurement is 18 mm.

 

Just Front-Left and Rear-Right spacer change needed

ABS is 18mm

That said, I would change the bearings because those 2011 STD bearing (if original) probably would be 9276 (NOT "A" or "B")...NO Bueno


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Typical Forum answers. all over the place, that leave you scratching your head. The right thing to do is purchase your wheels and install the correct components for your application. Then go riding.

 

I'm not scratching my head...follow what I just said and no one else will be either.

This is like breathing to me...which is easy for most people

 

Its easy for lots of folks, Not so much for the OP and he got answers that were all over the place, Hence the reason for my comment. He has to figure out who knows jack about it.

 

True...

This subject has been beaten to death...He can search for other threads and find the common denominators