+1 I love the intimdators in my Ultra.. makes the bike track like it should

 

I have just received my new Ohlins from Motorcycle Metal. For extra bracing I prefer a stabilizer kit and have the True-Track Trackula on my old 1990 bike. That leaves the shocks to do their job of controlling the wheel and gets the chassis to sort out bracing!

 

Whenever I'm riding on the highway and the sun is off to the side I always end up watching the shadow of the front wheel as it goes over bumps. I was just doing that for the last hour on my way home and it is amazing how much more movement is going on now even though I can't feel anything. The front wheel just glides over the bumps particularly hits like manhole covers for some reason. I really like this front end now It works as well as my Beemer with Ohlins on the front!

Marc

 

On the 2009 Street Glide what size are the forks? 39mm, 41mm or 49mm. Where is the best place to buy the Ricor Intiminators from? Best price?

I'm just getting ready to remove my forks for powder coating, and might as well improve the ride while I got them apart.

 

Yours are 41mm. Here is their website where you can buy them: http://store.ricorshocks.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=29

Marc

 

PS: Can you imagine coming back from Iraq or Afghanistan and having little hearing left but your heart is still 100% into it.

Then coming home to your family and giving them the biggest hug ever only to find out they can hear you but you can't hear them.

This is what our service men and women have to deal with many times when they come home and it's killing them (inside) to be unheard by their loved one's.

Can you imagine what that must be like?!?!??

 

Wow! I don't know where that all came from but it's from the heart and I hope some folks understand it.

Edit: Must have been in one of those moods last night. Please excuse.

 

Boomer,

My father-in-law is 89 years old. He volunteered at the outbreak of WW2 in 1939 and joined the Royal Artillery. Fought throughout North Africa against Rommell, then north through Italy including Monte Casino. He had 6 years of firing big guns and doesn't hear much these days. We spent 3 weeks with him over Xmas....

 

Do you have any more information on this?

All of our shocks have either rubber mounting or spherical bearings to allow for changing angles without binding or side loading. The only shock designs that I know of that allow for side loading are a strut and front forks. A conventional shock design being used to increase rigidity would only create additional stiction and wear.

 

Sure; with the Ohlins shocks they need to be mounted correctly or stiction or side loading will occur as you said. To mount them correctly the best way is to mount them at the bottom first and use the spacer that come with them to fill in the space at the top. On mine I used 1 spacer at the bottom and 2 at the top. I may take out the spacer at the bottom and just use 1 at the top.

At the mounts, where the bolt goes through there a slim ring of rubber sandwiched in between two other sleeves and finally there's a separate sleeve for the bolt itself. This combination prevents swingarm bushing flex and firms up the back end eliminating the need for other swingarm stabilizers but I figure it can't hurt to have another stabilizer on there, especially if it's bought, paid for, and already mounted.

I'm looking forward to trying the Intiminators on the front end of both bikes. I'm hoping to get started on the FLHT tomorrow.