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Fast650, ,I fully agree that 4to 6 " is safe and reasonable , What I considered insane was the kits from Chopper Supply , 18degree tree with 10" over forks ! that would put the Savage at an angle exceeding 45 degrees ? (53?) putting most of the weight of the bike and rider on the front wheel , forks at that angle have got to flex I'm thinking , maybe not as much on a HD's with much larger forks (49mm). Chopper Supply 's customer raves ? Two of the HD bikes are 3 wheelers with the 18 degree /10"over setup , and brag about winning first place in bike shows, but we should know by now that , Show doesn't mean GO. extending the front end of a trike is possibly the worst thing you can do to a trike ,the further extended the more dangerous it gets, On a stock trike taking a 90 degree corner to fast tends to lift the inside rear wheel , but with an extended front end , with a long wheel base it doesn't, instead the rear wheels driving tend to make the front wheel plow and skip ,and the bike doesn't turn but keeps going straight through an intersection. There was a company in Fla. that made trike conversions from standard bikes ,and found the Savage did the same thing even with it's stock front end .
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