Guys i need to lower, this already sweet looking low bike.. it seems to be to wide. any help would be appreciated. Kevin

 

Got to http://bitchinbaggers.com/ They offer modified shocks to lower the rear properly.

 

I'm 5'7" and have no trouble riding my Road King even with tennis shoes. The trick is when you put your feet down point your toes out away from the bike about 10 and 2 0'clock instead of forward. You can use the ***** of your feet or even the tips of your big toes. Your entire leg will keep the bike up instead of your weak ankles. You will feel your thighs touching the seat and keeping the bike up if it start to tip. You can also lean the bike slightly to the left and have that foot flat and the right foot on it's toe. Wear boots with a large heel and you shouldn't have any trouble at all.

 

hey transguy i installed the cvo seat on my 2010 and it lowerd me about 1 inch

 

The street glide is plenty low as is. It is the seat that is to fricken wide. Find a seat with a narrow nose and you will be very happy.


Tim

 

Get an Arnott air ride and then you can ride at full height and drop it to mount and dismount.

Drew

 

Get a narrow nose seat, like an HD Reach Seat or an '08 or '09 Road Glide seat.

 

you would be surprised how much lower the bike will be if you lower the front forks about 1"...know people that slide the fork tubes up the fork trees 1" and it's great...
not suggesting that you do that, but some progressive springs lowering kit may help

 

I have a 2010 FLHX White Ice Pearl\Black Ice Pearl and I changed the seat to a
C&C Custom seat. I bought the squareback seat and it helped and feels great on the lower back. I still am not flat-footed, but at 5' 6" also, really like the feel and ride.

 

+1

Before you start spending big bucks to take any more travel out of a rear suspension that does not have a lot to spare, try a seat with a narrow nose. Its the width of that seat thats killing you. For every quarter inch wider (per side) the seat nose is, its like your gaining an inch of seat height.

Mustang Solo sits pretty low and has a narrow nose. Then you have the option of having a decent size passenger pillion when your two up, and clean solo look when your not. C&C seats would probably be another good bet, not sure how the rear seat comfort is on those. The 08-10 Sundowner sits lower, slightly forward, and is narrower in the nose than the stock SG seat as well, and its a good 2 up seat, but the wide passenger sections it looks bulky on the bike without a backrest or tourpak. From what others are saying the seat from the CVO SG would be a good choice as well.

Before everyone jumps in telling you to send your seat to MCC, remember that if the pan is wide, re-foaming it wont make it any narrower, and theres not a whole lot of foam in the SG seat to take out to make it sit lower.

See this page to see the differences you can achieve with different seats. Pay attention to the nose width on the stock SG, and the Mustang solo. Be aware that this page is 2007 seats, the stock SG seat on the 09-10 are even wider that those shown here:

http://home.comcast.net/~kceder/seats/seats.html

After a seat, THEN I would lower the front.

Then, any only then, would I recommend lowering the rear any further. You can put the best shocks money can buy back there, but if they only have 1" of travel, you're not gonna like the ride much. My personal opinion, if you have to lower a bagger any more than having 2" of travel in the rear to get your feet down, buy a softail.