All of those are good ideas--the bike will be 'safer.' The problem is that the Sportster front end, as a place to start for these modifications, was just the wrong piece of equipment.
It would have been a better idea--if they wished to maximize the existing parts bins--to take the pieces from an Electra Glide front end and "sporterize" them.
MoCo wasted more money, time and peoples' safety by trying to slowly buttress up a bad design over the years. How many times were the tubes and dampening units reconfigured?
They had better forks, and newer designs, but kept them off of the Dyna models to provide an 'entry level' big twin. That idea is tantamount to providing entry level seat belts or beginners' brakes.
