{"id":1589,"date":"2015-03-01T12:50:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T12:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2018-03-01T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:01:43","slug":"slammed-ikon-ic-shovel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/slammed-ikon-ic-shovel\/","title":{"rendered":"Slammed Ikon-ic Shovel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a few hours in the workshop this afternoon playing with my spanners, and the result is that the Low Rider is riding lower on a new pair of Ikon shocks.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re only half an inch shorter than the oem shocks which I put back on the bike because I like the look of the lower skirts rather than the tapered Sportster-style shocks that came with it \u2013 which were Ikons too.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1591\" 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class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1593\" src=\"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ikon-Suspension-slammed-FXS-Low-Rider_03.jpeg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ikon-Suspension-slammed-FXS-Low-Rider_03.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ikon-Suspension-slammed-FXS-Low-Rider_03-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ikon-Suspension-slammed-FXS-Low-Rider_03-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ikon-Suspension-slammed-FXS-Low-Rider_03-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ikon-Suspension-slammed-FXS-Low-Rider_03-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ikon-Suspension-slammed-FXS-Low-Rider_03-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ikon-Suspension-slammed-FXS-Low-Rider_03-100x75.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ikon-Suspension-slammed-FXS-Low-Rider_03-862x647.jpeg 862w, https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ikon-Suspension-slammed-FXS-Low-Rider_03-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think half an inch would make enough difference but I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t go any lower: it sits nice now and I might have to invest in a primary chaincase saver! No such problems on the timing side: those one-piece pipes are tucked in good and tight.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest headache was modifying the top shock mount covers to work with the Ikons, but I&#8217;m happy with the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a few hours in the workshop this afternoon playing with my spanners, and the result is that the Low Rider is riding lower on &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/slammed-ikon-ic-shovel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"... from the archive","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60,4,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-custom","category-harley-davidson","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ikon-Suspension-slammed-FXS-Low-Rider_1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yyfo-pD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-v.cso2w.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}