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Originally Posted by pauld
I am going to pull the trigger on a harley real soon...but first research.
Do the solid wheels of the fat boy interfere with the wind as much as I have heard?
Should I be concerned about the footboards scraping the road on a turn?
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The wheels are no longer perfectly solid, rather reliefs have been cut into them. from what I've read, it's never been proven or disproven that solid wheels ever had any cause and affect in handling in the wind, on the fatboy.
The only concern you'd have to have about footboards scraping is if you rode the bike like it was a Ninja, or if you want to lower it. Outside of that, footboards don't scrape anymore, IMHO, then pegs. They're both at the same locations, although, pegs might give you just a smidge more clearence.
Even if they do scrape, they're hinged, to fold back a small amount rather then grab and end poorly.
Get used to hanging a foot/boot/flip-flop over the floor board, toes out, in turns, like I do. This way, if you're about to scrape, your boot scrapes first, and you're warned, before metal starts to scrape in corners.
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i scraped enough metal off the bottom of the left side that i could poke an awl through to the hollow center 
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