Softail will only have brakes on one side. So that's an issue. I've had to make up spacers putting some Softail wheels on touring bikes. And it's not always as simple as just swapping bearings.
Some of the wheels with 3/4 axles have center bores that will accept the 1" spacer between the bearings. Many don't though. And if not that's a big hole to have bored out. Not something you'll do with a hand drill. It's a machine shop job.
Also, as much as I like everything about the first SERK bikes my "everything" doesn't include the centerlines. Solid wheels in a cross wind aren't my preference.
I agree with Don, the solid wheels for my '01 FLSTFI haven't caused any unscheduled lane changes since I took them off and put them in boxes after the first riding season when that bike was new. They look great but a cross wind at speed is not fun....I agree solid wheels take some getting used too... never forget the first time I went over a two-lane steel/grated draw bridge and encountered a cross wind... didn't know if I was going to be blown into oncoming traffic or off the bridge. :nervous: However IMO the look of them is unique and one of the things that drew me to getting a Fatboy.
Softail will only have brakes on one side. So that's an issue. I've had to make up spacers putting some Softail wheels on touring bikes. And it's not always as simple as just swapping bearings.
Some of the wheels with 3/4 axles have center bores that will accept the 1" spacer between the bearings. Many don't though. And if not that's a big hole to have bored out. Not something you'll do with a hand drill. It's a machine shop job.
Also, as much as I like everything about the first SERK bikes my "everything" doesn't include the centerlines. Solid wheels in a cross wind aren't my preference.
The first wheel has slightly different markings. Some are the same but the numbers are 081104 and it has an additional JWL stamp. That JWL stamp is something I have previously seen on car wheels, and is some sort of japanese test approval, don't know why that would end up on a H-D wheel...
But then it hit me that the numbers could very well be a date stamp. It would match the fact that the 021102 is a 2002 SERK wheel, and it would also confirm that the first wheel 081104 would be for a 2005 CVO Fat Boy and explaim why it has 3/4 inch bearings. Comments?
3/4" wheel bearings definitely not in a wheel from an 02 touring bike. Very likely you're right and it's from a Fatboy. If you try to set it up for the 1" bearings you might be ok; or might not.
Some of the wheels I've messed with that were originally for 3/4" bearings did not have a center hole with a large enough diameter to accept the spacer for a 1" axle. If that's the case you're only option is to have a machine shop bore the center of the wheel such that it will accept the larger OD spacer.
I guess the only way to be sure is to pull the 3/4 inch bearings and spacer and check the clearance then.