Who has a Voyager kit on their ride?

[Rider98Glide]

Ok, made the adjustments that folks recommended. It is 100% better BUT now it seems that the ride totally depends on how smooth the road is with the Voyager. Semi well maintained highways are great. County roads that are low maintenance chip and seal with dips all over the place is kind of dangerous. I live on 3 miles of that..UGH! So my question now is, are trikes at the mercy of road quality? On my road one kind of feels like they are being thrown around a bit in a car so of course it is going to be more so on my Glide.

 

[Mick]

When I had my Intruder with a Voyager kit I wound up putting a Falken car tire on the back wheel. That stopped a lot of the bouncing and such and gave a smoother ride also..

 

[exphoneman]

Do you have a rake kit on your trike?

 

[Big_Blue]

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<div class="message">Well looks like I am gonna put my kit up for sale soon. Just contacted the installer to see if he has anyone intrested in needing one.....I think I gonna try and get a VW trike.<br />
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</div>Just sent you a PM based on an earlier post of your's on this thread. After sending the PM I kept reading and now see that you're planning on selling your Voyager. How much do you want for the kit and the mounting hardware (I have a VTX 1300S)? If you've already sold it may I ask what you got for it?

 

[onewing]

I was not really able to ride a bike for quite a while after I lost my right arm over twenty years ago until I was lucky enough to have a friend who thought I could ride again with the right equipment. Instead of spending a ton of money and buying a new trike my wife and friend got together and got a 2001 Suzuki intruder 1500LC and then he hunted around and found a Voyager kit that came off a Harley Fatboy and adapted it to the intruder. Th idea was to make sure I wanted and could ride again before I bought my dream machine After some adjusting and a brilliant idea of putting a cable operated gas pedal mounted on the left floorboard of the Intruder I was able to start riding again. I have to say that I rode it with my wife on the back from Kalispell Montana to Sturgis South Dakota pulling a trailer. It was a little over 1900 miles round trip and we were gone about ten days. I don't know what a standard trike kit rides like but we had a great time,and saw the Voyager dealers in Sturgis and they said we had it preloaded like it was suppose to.We also stopped by Leahmen Trikes in Spearfish and saw some great trikes but I rode home without any problems and I did it with just one hand so I am impressed and I think for the money a Voyager kit is a great product. I will look for a trike now that I know I can ride again....So look for a one armed guy riding a trike in Strugis next year and that might be me, So say hey!

 

[John Luciano]

With a 6 degree rake the trike will be even easier, with a larger motor it will require less shifting. I rode a Voyager on a 1980 Goldwing for 2 years and it was a hand full compared to my DFT equipped 1500 wing. Congrats on fretting back on a motorcycle . Good job.

 

[Big_Blue]

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<div class="message">I was not really able to ride a bike for quite a while after I lost my right arm over twenty years ago until I was lucky enough to have a friend who thought I could ride again with the right equipment. Instead of spending a ton of money and buying a new trike my wife and friend got together and got a 2001 Suzuki intruder 1500LC and then he hunted around and found a Voyager kit that came off a Harley Fatboy and adapted it to the intruder. Th idea was to make sure I wanted and could ride again before I bought my dream machine After some adjusting and a brilliant idea of putting a cable operated gas pedal mounted on the left floorboard of the Intruder I was able to start riding again. I have to say that I rode it with my wife on the back from Kalispell Montana to Sturgis South Dakota pulling a trailer. It was a little over 1900 miles round trip and we were gone about ten days. I don't know what a standard trike kit rides like but we had a great time,and saw the Voyager dealers in Sturgis and they said we had it preloaded like it was suppose to.We also stopped by Leahmen Trikes in Spearfish and saw some great trikes but I rode home without any problems and I did it with just one hand so I am impressed and I think for the money a Voyager kit is a great product. I will look for a trike now that I know I can ride again....So look for a one armed guy riding a trike in Strugis next year and that might be me, So say hey!</div>

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</div>Cool name--OneWing. I get it now.<br />
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So you have the throttle and the shifter both on the left floorboard? How does that work?<br />
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My understanding is that you'll probably want a bike with a lot of torque. I'm no expert, (but I don't mind pretending that I am.) From what I understand you don't have to shift as often on a bike with a lot of torque.

A bike with a lot of torque can be ridden in let's say third gear at both a relatively low speed, for neighborhoods, as well as a relatively high speed, for boulevards. You still have to shift below and above that range, but generally speaking much less frequently than on a bike with little torque.<br />
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I don't know if torque and horsepower go together, or that torque and the number of cylinders goes together, but from what I've read--torque is your friend. Here's an article listing out the horsepower and torque for various bikes: <a href="http://cruiser.mototribe.com/discuss/horsepower-and-torque-numbers" target="_blank">Horsepower and Torque numbers | Cruiser Community</a><br />
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Looks like the Goldwing has the edge by just a bit. It doesn't appear to be due to the number of cylinders since the Harley 110 is just about the same figures with 1/3rd the number of cylinders. Comparing the VRod with the Harley 110 shows it doesn't appear to be due to the horsepower either. Maybe it's the compression.<br />
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No, wait! I'll bet it's the color. I've heard that blue is the fastest color...

 

[Mick]

Heres a pic of my old Intruder with the voyager kit. It had a stock triple tree and with the length of the bike with the Voyager kit in the twisties you got a real workout. On the Highway with the car tire on the back you could ride with one hand on the bars all day.