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Excellent 2 people found this helpfulPaired these with progressive front springs and what a difference. Highly recommend and customer service with DK is great!
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A Good Option For the Front 0 people found this helpfulI'm on the lighter sided and added these to my 2020 Road King with Progressive springs replacements too. I didn't think I needed to reach the Apex of the best possible ride available, but feel its greatly improved the front suspension, perhaps, and just about reaching my expectations for the two mods.
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Mandatory Dyna 39mm Upgrade 1 people found this helpfulI had significant brake dive and a lot of wallowing over medium freeway bumps on my '05 Dyna 39mm forks with stock springs, so after some research, I tried the heavy duty fork fluid. That helped the brake dive and wallowing a lot, but now I felt every line and crack in the roads, which bothered my hands on rides from all the jolting. So after more research I chose Intimidators because you don't have to drill out the damper rods because they are designed around very thin fork oil. Easy install, but does increase spring pre load due to the thickness of the shim stack now being added to your springs. Not a bad thing, but definitely noticeable for my 180lbs. BUT, the Intimidators produce an amazingly better ride! Lines and cracks in the road are gone. Brake dive reduced. Firm, yet supple at the same time. Forks feel better matched to stock rear shocks. My hands don't feel beat up after rides. Totally worth it and DK Customs was great to deal with.
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Should’ve installed them sooner! 0 people found this helpfulThese are one of those parts that make you kick yourself after installation because you realize you’ve been missing out and suffering without them for so long! First off the install is VERY EASY. Seriously don’t sweat it, if you have the tools to get your fork tubes open you can put them in. Literally as simple as dropping them in. I installed them in my 2014 dyna, and reused the stock springs. I’d recommend getting springs too, as I still have some more brake dive than I’d like and a little bit too soft of a ride still. And I’m a fairly light guy at 150lb. Although the brake dive now happens at a much slower rate. (Takes more time for the forks to compress.) But WOW these valves really changed how the front end soaks up bumps and becomes much more predictable going into corners and with road undulations. The dampening with these valves is so noticeable that I had to stiffen up the rebound on my Bitubo shocks two clicks each, to have the perfect ride! I think that right there shows how noticeable the change was and just how mushy the stock “damper” setup is.
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installed the Ricor intiminators from DK Customs today 2 people found this helpfulTook the forks apart and installed the Intiminators. Relatively easy job, but did take a buddy and I to put the fork cap back on considering we did it manually with out a press. Once we had the first one figured the second one only took 15 minutes or so. Prior to the change I rode a route that included city driving, pavement cracks, bad asphalt, and a cloverleaf. I crossed a set of train tracks twice. I also braked fairly aggressively from 50 kmh to try and quantify the brake dive. After the change, I essentially rode the same path. From my seat of the pants study, I believe the bike dives less quickly than prior when braking. It also strikes me that braking with some dive and hitting an expansion joint is less “abrupt” after the change. The bounce over the tracks is hard to say since the whole bike moves anyway. During some of the shallower bumps on the city streets, it feels like the bike is more planted. Perhaps the rebound is more controlled. It also seemed that the bike tracked better during the relatively aggressive cloverleaf turns. All in all, I believe there is a difference; however, it doesn’t strike me as a nite and day difference like I had when I changed my ’89 and ’07 E-Glides from stock to progressive front springs and 412 rear shocks. Nor as significant as going from the ’07 to the ’19. But I believe there is a difference. As I said, it does feel more planted on the ground. Is it worth it? i am not exactly sure what i expected, but yes i think it is. the bike seems to hug the road better. i am not regretting the purchase at all Now a word about DK Customs. these are good folks to deal with. i first started down the path for this item due to this You Tube video. i had some questions that i sent by email directly to them. Dwayne got back to me with in 24 hours both times. the tag line on their email signature is " To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity." It looks like they live by this. really good folks to deal with