Happy New Year to all! Hope you all had a good Christmas break. Well here we are New Years day and it's time to start planning for 2007. If the group fancies a...
Sounds good to me, the destination isn't that important, all we need is a place to pitch, food and drink; the museum is an added bonus. I crawled out of bed...
The destination is only not important as long as it's not pissing down. I am reminded of this after reading this moth's Bike magazine where they are attepting...
Hi, Thanks Andy for the invite. Got my first harley this summer, passed my test Dec just over a year ago. I rode a Kawasaki W650 for the first 6 months and...
That sounds like a good way to learn to love your Sporty! Re:883-1200 conversions. There are so many combinations you can use, it really depends on what you...
Andy, why don't you advertise this group on sportster.org (xl-list)? That way we might get more uk members here and I'm sure they won't mind, you could ask...
I'm looking into getting panniers, just the throwover ones I think. I've just cleaned my bike today and it looks so good again. When you've got the panniers...
At the moment I'm more interested in how the bike would be different as in riding I suppose. Not so much how everything's done technically as I'm on a v steep...
A good point. Gordon (aka Ballistic) use to be be very proactive at this, maybe it's time to start putting it in the signature again. I'll have to look into...
Funny you should mention that - I keep panniers on all the time and yes it gets pretty cacky under there, which is why I have my shocks off at the moment...
It's a slippery slope. You start off wanting just an extra 10 BHP, then another 10, then another....then your SO asks where all the money has gone........:-) ...
I suppose so lol. And what is a SO? No point putting that into google. I'm dutch by the way. Were there only 29 members when you moved over from Wannadoo?...
Andy's right, it's a slippery slope. I could have bought a new Dyna Sport for what my Sportster has cost me. That said, I'd have then started modding the Dyna,...
Ah was reading the paper and it suddenly came to me. You mean significant other I think. Haven't got one of those unfortunately, sure it's just a matter of...
Hi Ian, That's really helpful, so there;s no 'need' to get new exhaust pipes for the bike to improve like you describe. Less fuel sounds good to me! I'll have...
Hi Laura, When I say open up the intake and exhaust, you are increasing the airflow in and out. How you achieve that is a different matter! On the inlet side,...
You got it! Ian's right about the stage 1. It's possible to drill the standard exhausts to let them "breathe" a little freer, but once that's done there's no...
Thanks for that. I've had the 'idling circuit' of a jet kit put on before xmas as the bike was suffering, running rough, stalling etc and gave up when started...
the middle of what? I'm sure the workshop guy suggested the first thing you mentioned but does it affect resale value this drilling. Not sure that I got much...
Sounds like you've had part of the dynojet kit put in, and what's left are the needle and main jet. When your mechanic talks about taking the restrictor off...
Middle of the baffle; I've never had a standard exhaust but I think you'll find that if you push a thin rod or something like into the exit hole of the ...
Ah, sorry, the middle of the exhaust baffle, which is about 1/2 way down the exhaust. Before I went down that route, I did a bit of research on the XL list. I...
Sorry I might not have explained v well. My bike is restricted to 33 bhp at the moment, it's a washer apparently. This is because I did my test on a 125 and...
Hi Laura Not really sure who you have had looking at your bike and all the advice the guys here are giving you is correct but you have one of the best Harley...
I have fitted these restrictors they come out easy and the just fit the old jets back in. Not really a problem Bernie ... 33 bhp at ... test on a 125 ... ...
You have my sympathy having to ride a bike restricted by so much, but at least you have a lot to look forward to. Having said that, my first bike was a Honda...
