OK ride for older lehmans with solid axles?

[1dn5up]

Good luck with the new ride Tom, keep smiling and be Safe ! :clapping:

 

[paws]

Tom! Congratulations! Let us know how the ride home was when you finally get to do it!

 

[trikeman]

AWESOME!!

 

[billvoyager]

lehman trike with hard axle

I have a 99 Goldwing 1500 with out EZ steer. I totally agree the tire pressures and shock pressures are the basic key to a good ride.

I had both my pressure on tires and shocks way to high after adjusting back to what was recommendation on forum here it rides like a different trike.

Bill

 

[tbird71]

What PSI Bill?

Bill;

What PSI did you set them to if I may ask?

 

[CrystalPistol]

We have a 1997 GL1500 SE which was converted to a trike with Lehman,s GTL kit in early 1998, Solid axle, 9" Ford drum brakes, 15x7 rear ASC wheels, 215/70-15 Lemans Radial tires, AVON Cobra Trike Radial frt tire, 6 degree Champion EZ Steer, Progressive frt springs meant for a Kaw 1200 / 1300 (part # 11-1112 they are) and with two up, 22-25 in rear shocks and about 7 wgt fork oil and no fork air .... it rides SupeR in MHO.

The one in the photo of yours looks like stock front end, rear of fender looks too close to cowl to have EZSteer. The EZSteer moves the front wheel out further by adding 4.5 or 6 degrees rake to just the two for tubes .... thus reducing trail and thuat's how it lightens steering effort.

https://www.triketalk.com/forum/album.php?albumid=1632

 

[billvoyager]

trike rear air pressure

Bill;

What PSI did you set them to if I may ask?

I have the rear tires at 22PSI with air shocks at about 20 to 25 PSI, with just me on trike. With wife I had to increase air pressure to 50 55 pri so the trike does not bottoms out to much on back roads.

Bill

 

[CrystalPistol]

I have the rear tires at 22PSI with air shocks at about 20 to 25 PSI, with just me on trike. With wife I had to increase air pressure to 50 55 pri so the trike does not bottoms out to much on back roads.

Bill

I had neglected to state suspension pressure ... my bad. When I wrote "and with two up, 22-25 in rear shocks", just discovered I wrote shocks when I meant rear tires .... I almost never have my shocks that low.

I tried those lower pressures once but it seems that when I'm on the trike, "Wife Unit" is almost always there too, so rear progressive shocks is usually @ 55 or so at least to minimize bottoming jolts.

On another point, I currently have 215/70-15 rear tires but originally .... it came with 245/60-15 rear tires, think like "bigger balloons" so I thought I might have to run high rear tire pressures, but it handles / rides very much like before using same psi as with them fatter 245s. With the swap to 215/70s, I kept tire dia near same, just narrower and lighter to the tune of 8 pounds lighter, we like .