Hello Kevin,
Thanks for your reply and thanks for your offer to come and inspect the Harley shocks you have, the 9700 miles is a little bit of an issue though!
First of all I must congratulate you on your company, all of the research, design and development that you have done and are continually doing and making components in the USA that we can trust. You are making everybody's ride safer and more enjoyable so please keep up the great work.
I watched your youtube video and love that your 13" inch shocks have 4" inch of travel which is identical travel to that of your 14" inch shocks. May I ask is the reason people choose 14" inch shocks over the 13" inch shocks so as to make the steering feel lighter or is there some other reason I am not aware of to increase the rear height by an extra inch without increasing the working travel length?
Your Inertia Active Suspension is a fantastic feature to have, adapting a remote hydraulic preload adjuster to these shocks would be the icing on the cake for me if it were available.
May I ask would you know the
shock body length, outer diameter, thread pitch for the preload adjuster and spring diameter for either the NextGen shocks you supply and the standard Harley shocks? Have you ever considered adapting the Harley remote hydraulic preload adjuster onto your shocks as I would love to adjust the preload this way with your brand of shocks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-NVrRF9554&t=146s
Considering the trike is one of the most difficult motorcycles to adjust the preload on due to the lack of easy access to the rear shocks, surely there is a demand for remote preload adjustment with a set of coil over shocks?
I have done a lot of research in finding shocks with a remote hydraulic preload adjuster, the only thing that caught my attention is the Wilbers Nivomat suspension made in Germany. It is a fully automatic system that adjusts the height back to the pre-determined level if you add a passenger or luggage, check them out at
https://www.wilbers.de/produkte/fede...ers-apart.html Don't forget to translate the webpage to english, only issue is they don't have these shocks for the trike and can't develop them for the trike as the lower mounting point of the shocks on the trike is past the rear axle and they claim for this reason the "Nivomat" feature won't work.
I don't want to go down the road of air suspension from the likes of Legends, Arnott, Platinum etc just to have easier preload adjustment, as I don't want to introduce an air compressor, air lines and additional switches on the handlebars.
I look forward to your response and please have a great day.