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Lateral Stabilizers for my R18 Transcontinental

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My rumbly chariot now has stabilizers! I dropped this 942lb monster twice in the 1st week of ownership...and needed something to keep me from killing myself and destroying the bike.

The best method to avoid that was the LandinGear designed and installed by Chopper Design Svcs https://landingear.com/
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I pick the bike up this week and hopefully will have some saddle time before Ole Man Winter takes up residence!
 
Noelpolar said:
Good on you.... ride for as long as you can I reckon.

Most online negative's can't seem to see anything than from their own myopic viewpoint.
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Point is projecting it on themselves, taking it personal.
For mé it is like swearing in church but that does not mean that I cannot understand someone else doing it.
Again mé personally would fit a sidecar but those do change the whole dynamic of a motorcycle. And I mean fundamentally; it goes from indirect ´cone´ steering to direct steering like a car.

First time I saw this concept was on a fully loaded GoldWing 6 cil. looking like it had a chemical toilet on the back and a flag on a large stick at bot rear edges.
It rolled up to my daily watering hole and I was amazed by this in my eyes Winnabago on two wheels. Imagine my :eek: when two side wheels popped down when the guy nearly at no speed.
Small guy got off, the rear closet swallowed all his gear, Slight limp going inside for breakfast.
I sat at the window overlooking the bike. Pondering about it and as much as it was alien to mý perceptions, ... kuddos to the bloke.

I have been operated twice on both knees, twice on one hip, once on the other, both are titanium now (when I saw the GW only one), one ti shoulder, three vertebrae immobilised: I get it ;)
 
I remember how top heavy the TC felt vs the Model B when I was looking at getting a new bike; I also tested the HD Street Glide and Road Glide, I choose the R18 B despite how much heavier it felt compared to the two HD models..

That said... I was really surprised on how nibble and weightless the R18 Bobber Project felt compared to my R18 B .... ( I still have sellers regret...)

Long story short... I picked a bike that allowed me to plant both feet on the ground when stopped; which my 2008 GS Adventure never provided, 14 yrs and 96,683 miles on my tippy-toes...
 
Thanks everyone for the kind words and observations!

I certainly meant no disrespect to anyone on this site, by showing here what I had determined to be a safer riding practice for me with a VERY heavy bike.

If truly wanted, I will make periodic reports on how these stabilizers change my riding style and how they perform over time. I'm quite sure I'm not the only "Olde Phart" out there who is still getting bugs in his teeth with soul expanding rides in the wind! :)
 
You do what you believe is best and more comfortable for you, end of story. Maybe an algorithm or my phone is really smart but on my instagram feed I have now seen 3 videos of these wheel stabilisers and the one I liked the most was a small Asian lady on top of a GS coming to a red light. The wheels deployed nicely as she was coming to a stop and she can be seen dangling her little feet and really chuffed with herself. Lights changed to green and off she went and the stabilisers retracted smoothly. Not the same make as yours but same principle. Enjoy
 
With the full understanding sorted the association with training wheels is also totally understandable and so is the humorous side to it.
I mean who does not chuckle about a macho leather clad rider on a huge cruiser mc stopping at a light or what and toppling over. Totally unfunny for the rider but still... 🫣

About trainer wheels, it is súch a👍 ´innovation´ that training bicycles without pedals are used. Innovation between brackets because the first bicycle was the wooden walker by Karl Drais. He was a tax collector that wanted sómething to get around the horse shortage because of the year without sunmer because of a vulcanic eruption.
Ah the memories: Dropping the bicycle time and again while trying to get to grips with the reverse steering and pedalling at the same time. The metal handlebar tube punching holes in the plastic grips, leaving the bare tube. It took over half a century for the scar on my chin fully disappeared.
Hard to believe btw that the Karl Drais bike was just over 200 years ago. In some countries manufacturing of ICE vehicles will be prohibited per 2030. Quite a turn of events.
The Mount Tambora eruption is an imo perfect example of turns of events linked together. An eruption in Indonesia leading to the invention of the bicycle and writing of Frankenstein and eventually the current zombie craze.

So, while I tótally get the safety wheels, they also make me smile.
I laugh at myself too btw. Wrote about that when I dropped the R18 ríght in front of my door ;) I limped for two weeks but it was still funny.
Second time I lost balance, it ended with ´leaning´ the R18 against my cabrio. Nice dent in the rear fender. Not having it pulled out as it is sobering proof of gravity vs geriatrics :ROFLMAO:
 
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