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10-22-2006, 05:09 PM
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Tire Killer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Cape Fear, NorthCarolina
Posts: 93
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swingarm cracking
If you tend to ride your bike hard PLEASE look at the photos of a crack in my swingarm. I found one day while washing my bike.  |
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10-22-2006, 08:27 PM
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Steve
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sacramento, CA & Reno, NV
Posts: 254
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WHOA!!!!!!  |
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10-22-2006, 10:43 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 212
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Joe,
Send me the specifics on the bike, I may be able to get you one cheap. One of the local dealers does alot of Trike Conversions and have parts sitting around from those chop jobs.
RJ
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10-22-2006, 11:34 PM
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Cupcake Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Frisco, TX
Posts: 682
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Oh my..... 
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10-23-2006, 12:45 AM
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Tire Killer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Cape Fear, NorthCarolina
Posts: 93
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Rj- I have a killer fabricator, I use for welding and custom fab. He hooked it up. I put it back on so quick. That I didnt get to take any pics of the primo repair and additionall bracing.
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10-23-2006, 01:42 AM
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Antipodean Mod
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Cape Town, South Africa.
Posts: 411
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Quote:
Originally Posted by smokenjoep01
Rj- I have a killer fabricator, I use for welding and custom fab. He hooked it up. I put it back on so quick. That I didnt get to take any pics of the primo repair and additionall bracing.
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Thats the way to go! Make it stronger, lasts longer! |
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10-24-2006, 09:47 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 7
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Is that shock mount aftermarket? If so then it's obvious why it broke, the fulcrum point was moved and it put maximum load on the weakest part of the swingarm. If that's factory then H-D needs to have a look because that's someting the NTSB would be VERY interested in.
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10-24-2006, 10:10 AM
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Tire Killer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Cape Fear, NorthCarolina
Posts: 93
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A/M lowering kit. Sold by White brothers. Thousands of them out there. Do you think its the product or the rider?
My bike is running a 124" S&S motor. Hundreds of nasty burnouts and dragstrip runs.
Did you ever see the picture of me standing on the seat with the kickstand down, smoking down the tire?
I would tend to agree with the folkum theory.
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10-24-2006, 10:52 AM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by smokenjoep01
A/M lowering kit. Sold by White brothers. Thousands of them out there. Do you think its the product or the rider?
My bike is running a 124" S&S motor. Hundreds of nasty burnouts and dragstrip runs.
Did you ever see the picture of me standing on the seat with the kickstand down, smoking down the tire?
I would tend to agree with the folkum theory.
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Obviously a combination of geometry and rider 
Glad you got it fixed before it left you on the side of the road. |
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10-24-2006, 04:25 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 212
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Leave it to smokienjoe to out build the tolerances of metal.......  |
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