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" fork cartridges, a 23" front wheel and 14-inch rear shock absorbers. To make the throttle more sensitive 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 wheelies easier.
A chain and sprockets kit for touring Harleys 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 54-tooth rear sprocket.
Watch our video on adjusting chain slack on the FXR: https://stuntex.ru/en/article/fxr-sprockets-chain
In our case, because of the 54-tooth rear sprocket, the chain touches the muffler, so in the future we'll be installing a 2-1 system.
The 2015 Road Glide has a Twin Cam engine, so the video is useful if you're servicing the primary chaincase on motorcycles with this engine. We went through a similar process on an FXR with an Evolution engine. The Twin Cam is much easier to maintain and better manufactured.
Timecodes to navigate easier:
- 0:47 Primary chaincase disassembly.
- 2:57 Belt pulley removal.
- 3:30 Rear wheel removal.
- 4:33 Rear fork removal.
- 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 sprocket tightening.
- 9:21 Clutch nut tightening.
- 9:51 Primary chaincase cover installation.
- 10:33 Filling oil into the primary chaincase.
- 11:02 Chain slack adjustment.
- 11:25 Rear wheel tightening.
The Einhell electric tool we use in the video: https://www.einhell.de/
The article about Legend suspension: https://stuntex.ru/en/article/road-glide-legend-suspensions
