Chain and Sprockets for Harley Davidson Road Glide
Still adapting Alexander Andreev's Road Glide Special 2015 for stunt riding. We already installed Legend + 2 inches fork cartridges, 23 front wheel and 14-inch rear shock absorbers. To make the throttle more sensitive while being on the rear wheel and in a drift, it is important to replace the belt with a chain. The chain also has less power loss. We made the gear ratio slightly bigger than the stock one to make it easier to do wheelie.
A chain and sprockets kit for touring harley is expensive, because the rear sprocket comes with a hub and bearing. We chose Trask sprockets, the new polyurethane damper and the strongest EK ZVX3 anti-corrosion chain. Trask instructions give incorrect information on chain length: 130 links. We only used 118 links with the largest rear sprocket of 54 teeth.
Watch our video how to adjust the chain slack on FXR: https://stuntex.ru/article/fxr-sprockets
In our case, because of the 54 rear sprocket, the chain touches the muffler, so in the future we'll be installing the system 2-1.
The 2015 Road Glide has a Twin Cam engine, so the video is useful if you're servicing primary chaincase on motorcycles with this engine. We went through a similar process on FXR with an Evolution engine. The Twin Cam one is much easier to maintain and better manufactured.
Timecodes to navigate easier:
- 0:47 Primary chaincase deiassembling
- 2:57 Belt pulley removing
- 3:30 Rear wheel removing
- 4:33 Rear fork removing
- 5:34 Rear fork installation
- 6:09 Chain and sprockets kit contents
- 6:38 Rear sprocket installation
- 7:03 Chain installation
- 7:36 Front sprocket installation
- 8:12 Primary chaincase installation
- 9:10 Compensator sporcket tightening
- 9:21 Clutch nut tightening
- 9:51 Primary chaincase cover installation
- 10:33 Putting oil in primary chaincase
- 11:02 The chain slack adjusting
- 11:25 Rear wheel tightening
The Einhell electric tool we use in the video: https://www.einhell.de/
The article about LEGEND suspensions: https://stuntex.ru/road-glide-legend