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Old 01-25-2015 | 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by kneesinthebreeze
Where does your vibration come from? The floor boards, hand grips ? I have a '13 softail and when at speeds of 70 to 80 I get a slight vibration in the floor boards. On softails we do have a rigid mounted motor and even though it has a balancer it would be expected to feel a big displaced motor to relate some vibration.
I don't think your vibration is coming from the motor because you would feel the same vibration at the same rpm at a slower speed.

You should get that checked out because a slight vibration could easily turn into a huge wobble especially at 80 mph.
 
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