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About tubes for the AT I know the Thread is little oder just like to put this out in case people search.....
Before the tubeless conversion I used those tubes good tubes in my opinion

Rear
IRC Tube 110/100-18 Heavy Duty
No did not have issues with heat build up on the highway just put some baby powder and all good

Front
Kenda 2.75/3.00-21 Motorcycle Tube
 
N+1 said:
Found out why my windshield was a little wobbly at speed, the apparently common front subframe crack as seen in the rust line below. Spent a few hours today pulling it apart to get that out to mig weld it up. I'm a super amateur welder, but it was a fun little project. Hoping to get it back together tomorrow, we'll see what time allows.
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Wasn't too bad getting it all apart honestly, we'll see how it is to put back together I guess.
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The entire front side weld wasn't doing a thing anymore, boogered that up a bit first. Then I used a little CAD(cardboard assisted design) to make a gusset with some scrap metal i had laying around.
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The factory gussets on the backside were holding it all together, i boogered up the failed weld on that side as well, now we'll see if it'll go another 80k miles before it cracks again.
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Nice job this makes me think to take my front apart and just Tig weld a couple of stainless steel brace's on to the bracket to prevent it breaking in the first place ....Does anyone know if the 2018 has the same design and issues ?
 
G-Mans-World said:
Nice job this makes me think to take my front apart and just Tig weld a couple of stainless steel brace's on to the bracket to prevent it breaking in the first place ....Does anyone know if the 2018 has the same design and issues ?
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No change that I could see when I had mine partially apart. I had a '17 and now have a '19.
 
G-Mans-World said:
Nice job this makes me think to take my front apart and just Tig weld a couple of stainless steel brace's on to the bracket to prevent it breaking in the first place ....Does anyone know if the 2018 has the same design and issues ?
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I think it was just the 16-17’s
 
I'll add that I've managed not to break it on either one. That said I run a stock windshield with just a little lip deflector on top and mount my GPS to the handlebar.
 
G-Mans-World said:
Nice job this makes me think to take my front apart and just Tig weld a couple of stainless steel brace's on to the bracket to prevent it breaking in the first place ....Does anyone know if the 2018 has the same design and issues ?
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No point welding stainless to a mild steel frame in my opinion. But yeah if you've already got it apart for another reason, beef that thing up, why not :D
 
N+1 said:
No point welding stainless to a mild steel frame in my opinion. But yeah if you've already got it apart for another reason, beef that thing up, why not :D
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No don't have it apart and stainless is the only stuff I have sitting around plenty small cut off pieces
 
Ok…getting ready to order a Corbin seat for my ‘18 AT. All set to buy…then started finding multiple complaints about seats not fitting & Corbin not responding to complaints. Anyone here had any problems with fit or customer service?
 
Travis, I'd sure try one of these first. Might save you $288.63, and it will be on your porch Friday.
I'm on my 3rd one and have about 40K miles under my butt.


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tperk314 said:
Ok…getting ready to order a Corbin seat for my ‘18 AT. All set to buy…then started finding multiple complaints about seats not fitting & Corbin not responding to complaints. Anyone here had any problems with fit or customer service?
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Hi consider to try this out if you sort of handy guy it made all the difference for me went from 2 hours to start feeling my a.... To easy 6 hours and more with no issues.

 
tperk314 said:
Ok…getting ready to order a Corbin seat for my ‘18 AT. All set to buy…then started finding multiple complaints about seats not fitting & Corbin not responding to complaints. Anyone here had any problems with fit or customer service?
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No problems here, I have had Corbin’s on all my bikes and never an issue
 
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