anyone with burley slammer shocks, i have a question for you....
#1
anyone with burley slammer shocks, i have a question for you....
so i ordered the slammer shocks for my 2002 sportster, i have been running solid struts and my *** cant take it anymore.
so i ordered the 2002 sporty shocks.
they came in today, got ready to install em and they acciidentally sent me the dyna shocks. now i read lots of sporty guys go with dyna shocks, and most have good reviews.
i put them on, they fit perfect. but when i sit on the bike, or even hop up and down on the seat it dont seem like they budge a bit. i was expecting the bike to drop a little when i sit on it, but nothing.. no different than the struts.
so i took it for a ride over some of the worst areas that usually hurt my butt with the struts. and it does seem better, not a soft ride at all, still very stiff, but without that SLAMMING into my nuts and ***! lol
so you guys with the sportster slammers, do they sink at all when you sit on the bike? mayne the slammers for the dyna are a ton stiffer than the sporty ones and i should send them back? they do look cool since they are a little fatter than the sporty versions.
i basically want to know how much they sag when you sit down on the bike..
thanks all
so i ordered the 2002 sporty shocks.
they came in today, got ready to install em and they acciidentally sent me the dyna shocks. now i read lots of sporty guys go with dyna shocks, and most have good reviews.
i put them on, they fit perfect. but when i sit on the bike, or even hop up and down on the seat it dont seem like they budge a bit. i was expecting the bike to drop a little when i sit on it, but nothing.. no different than the struts.
so i took it for a ride over some of the worst areas that usually hurt my butt with the struts. and it does seem better, not a soft ride at all, still very stiff, but without that SLAMMING into my nuts and ***! lol
so you guys with the sportster slammers, do they sink at all when you sit on the bike? mayne the slammers for the dyna are a ton stiffer than the sporty ones and i should send them back? they do look cool since they are a little fatter than the sporty versions.
i basically want to know how much they sag when you sit down on the bike..
thanks all
#2
so i ordered the slammer shocks for my 2002 sportster, i have been running solid struts and my *** cant take it anymore.
so i ordered the 2002 sporty shocks.
they came in today, got ready to install em and they acciidentally sent me the dyna shocks. now i read lots of sporty guys go with dyna shocks, and most have good reviews.
i put them on, they fit perfect. but when i sit on the bike, or even hop up and down on the seat it dont seem like they budge a bit. i was expecting the bike to drop a little when i sit on it, but nothing.. no different than the struts.
so i took it for a ride over some of the worst areas that usually hurt my butt with the struts. and it does seem better, not a soft ride at all, still very stiff, but without that SLAMMING into my nuts and ***! lol
so you guys with the sportster slammers, do they sink at all when you sit on the bike? mayne the slammers for the dyna are a ton stiffer than the sporty ones and i should send them back? they do look cool since they are a little fatter than the sporty versions.
i basically want to know how much they sag when you sit down on the bike..
thanks all
so i ordered the 2002 sporty shocks.
they came in today, got ready to install em and they acciidentally sent me the dyna shocks. now i read lots of sporty guys go with dyna shocks, and most have good reviews.
i put them on, they fit perfect. but when i sit on the bike, or even hop up and down on the seat it dont seem like they budge a bit. i was expecting the bike to drop a little when i sit on it, but nothing.. no different than the struts.
so i took it for a ride over some of the worst areas that usually hurt my butt with the struts. and it does seem better, not a soft ride at all, still very stiff, but without that SLAMMING into my nuts and ***! lol
so you guys with the sportster slammers, do they sink at all when you sit on the bike? mayne the slammers for the dyna are a ton stiffer than the sporty ones and i should send them back? they do look cool since they are a little fatter than the sporty versions.
i basically want to know how much they sag when you sit down on the bike..
thanks all
#3
It's only a 10.5" shock ... not much travel to begin with. HD suggests a minimum of 11.0" to avoid bottoming out and ruining the wires under the fender. You cannot really expect too much of a comfortable ride with such a short shock.
Last edited by SpoilSport; 08-06-2011 at 05:48 AM. Reason: sentence structure
#5
I have the slammer kit. Give it a little time because they do "break-in" a bit. I weigh 200lbs and they give a little now. The rear tire has never rubbed the fender and I hit a monsterous hole. It was jarring but I never once thought about reinstalling taller shocks. Mine are set at the softest setting as well. I think the slammer kit is the best thing I have done for my bike thus far.
#6
OK. So when you first got em, they didn't budge either when yoy plopped down on the bike? I'm 200lb to and I can't getting them to budge at all. But riding over big bumps I can feel they are better than the solid struts were.
#7
They moved very little when brand new. There isn't a whole lot of travel with these short shocks. Now that I have a few thousand miles on them, they do compress 1/4 -3/4 of an inch when I sit on the bike. I would think that the spring rates would be different since the dyna models are roughly 75-100 lbs heavier than sportsters. That 100 lbs might make a world of difference.
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