| Author | Message | ||
     Electraglider_1997 |
Dialed off all the rear shock preload and now I can stand flatfooted at least with my 100lb 14 year old son on the back. Doesn't want to wheelie as easily now which is a plus. Fan heat on right leg is ridiculous. It actually ruins a nice bike. Way to go Erik. He'd better address this in the 2007 edition of this bike. No way that should have made it through the testing phase. Not all of us wear leather pants while riding. I never wear leather pants. I'm only venting here in the outside chance that somebody from Buell actually reads this site. | ||
| Thunderbox |
That is the simple answer. Wear better riding gear. I have to ride the police bikes here at the city as I run the Garage, the FLHTPI has a lot worse heat issue than the Uly. Also the ST1300 and FJR are both heat generators. I don't personally recall a time I thought the Uly had a heat on a leg problem. | ||
| Royintulsa |
My Uly does have a heat problem, it comes out between the seat and the frame hitting hitting my right thigh. I installed the heat barriers from Odie and now the heat is more than tolerable. I feel like I finally have pieced the perfect bike together for me. 1. The race kit has the engine running cooler. 2. The heat sheilds deflect most of the heat off my thigh. 3. Changing from the C. Bailey tall windscreen to the Buell tall fly screen. (The tall C. Bailey would be perfect if it had matched my barricade orange.) 4. The special twenty cent cruise control. I out riding the other evening and thought, after having so many different motorcycles over the years, I finally have the one perfect bike for me. | ||
| Aeholton |
What's the twenty cent cruise control? | ||
| Debueller |
I believe it's an o-ring you hang near the throttle grip and to lock the throttle you pull it into the gap between the grip and the throttle grip housing? | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
Update: Since I dialed down the rear shock pre-load to minimum the front wheel seems to stay down even when I'm goosing the motor in 1st gear. I weigh in at 200-210 lbs and can't see why anyone at my weight would want the pre-load dialed up. Even with my approx 100# son on the back the bike only drops maybe another 1/4" max and maybe less. That is one strong spring. I've done no adjustments to the front fork. The dealer set it up for me when I bought it. A light front end might be fun for wheelies but it doesn't do much for the handling so the less wheelie prone the better, at least for me. | ||
| Ikeman |
You must have some seriously smooth roads in your neck of the woods. I was out for most of the day this past Saturday with my 145lb son on the back + my 170lbs and was getting some serious bounces happening with the preload set about 75-80% of max. Come on out to western PA and try riding with 0 rear preload  | ||
| Thunderbox |
Maybe your compression damping is set too low. Spring preload is only a basic adjustment for the weight. Compression damping on the other hand is the resistance to compression. Check and make sure you have the setting right for 415lbs plus clothing and any luggage. Your clothing probably weighs about 20 lbs each. If it is bouncing you may need to adjust the rebound setting to stop the "bouncing". Just a thought (Message edited by Thunderbox on May 10, 2006) | ||
| Ratcatcher |
Has any body got a record or seen a lowering kit for the rear shock thought i saw one made of billet which moved the bottom of the shock back about an inch or so | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
Thunderbox, What you say about the compression damping is true. No bouncing on my bike. The only thing about zero preload that doesn't make sense to me is this: Shouldn't preloading the shock lower me also? I guess I don't see how my weight should lower me any further at no preload compared to preloaded. | ||
| Superchicken |
glider - you are preloading the spring from the bottom, lifting you up, your weight loads the spring at the top. hope that explains it. | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
Colonel Sanders, Thanks, now it makes sense. |
