Question about rake

[Mykneesbehurtin]

A friend has a older Electra Glide with a CSC conversion, the bike had a sidecar on it before the trike conversion and had a 6 degree set of trees. Now with the trike kit the front end has the wobbles if he removes his hands plus he has no stabilizer on it. So the question is would a set of 9 degree trees fix the wobble issue or should he go with more rake.

 

[rhino 2]

A friend has a older Electra Glide with a CSC conversion, the bike had a sidecar on it before the trike conversion and had a 6 degree set of trees. Now with the trike kit the front end has the wobbles if he removes his hands plus he has no stabilizer on it. So the question is would a set of 9 degree trees fix the wobble issue or should he go with more rake.

Two Schools of thought on this....Some say with a stabilizer you don't need the rake to stop the wobble....And some say with the 9 degree rake you don't need the stabilizer....

But in any event he should check the steering head bearings and make sure its toque to trike standards ....Tighter than a two wheeler...

 

[vwbug72501]

Amen to the head bearing torque settings.

You might want to actually measure the trail and from there make a scale drawing of the front end geometry to see what the trail would be with a 9 degree tree. General rule of thumb is 1"-2" of trail, any less will get squirrely. Check out: https://www.triketalk.com/forum/threads/35579-Tech-Tech-Tech-or-So-you-want-to-build-a-trike Post #2. Too little trail will adversely affect high speed stability.

 

[tfdeputydawg]

1. Never take your hands off the bars when moving

2. Check the bearing torque.

 

[PosseRider]

Two Schools of thought on this....Some say with a stabilizer you don't need the rake to stop the wobble....And some say with the 9 degree rake you don't need the stabilizer....

But in any event he should check the steering head bearings and make sure its toque to trike standards ....Tighter than a two wheeler...

I believe Zook told me with the kit he installed, I was at 9* stabilizer is gone & bike handles great.

 

[Cut N Shoot Customs]

Skip the stabilizer, but do re-torque the steering stem to 30-35 lbs.