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« on: January 06, 2010, 04:38:14 PM » |
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Made a lot of mods to it and then sold it.
It was slow, kind of bulky and did not handle very well. Brakes were only fair.
Sounded good after the SuperTrapps were installed -not loud but throaty, powerful sound.
Installed SuperTrapp flat track pipes, drag bars, luggage rack, stainless brake lines, Screamin Eagle air cleaner, tachometer, relocated the front & rear turn signals, upgraded seat, removed the gigantic rear license plate holder, added low boy mirrors, and a bunch of other stuff. (It doesn't come with a tach from the factory)
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« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2010, 07:34:15 AM » |
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You know you can post more than one time in a thread right? You should just combine all these single picture threads into one. Oh yea  to the forum. |
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« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2010, 07:55:14 AM » |
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I actually like that sportster.
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« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2010, 08:22:54 AM » |
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Looks great. I love the XR1200.
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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2010, 08:58:44 AM » |
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You know you can post more than one time in a thread right? You should just combine all these single picture threads into one. Oh yea to the forum. thats how you get your post count up loki  nice sportster mambo palace but too much vibration for me |
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« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2010, 01:33:48 PM » |
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I had a friend that loved that color scheme at a time when it was unavailable on the 1200.
Like that luggage rack a lot. Does H-D still have that weird ignition (or just steering lock) location? That would drive me nuts.
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mambopalace
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« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2010, 01:47:33 PM » |
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I had a friend that loved that color scheme at a time when it was unavailable on the 1200.
Like that luggage rack a lot. Does H-D still have that weird ignition (or just steering lock) location? That would drive me nuts.
You can see it - lower forward of the tank. You get used to it after a while. I'm not bad mouthing Harleys but their engineering must be 30 years behind the times but I guess they are doing something right. |
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mambopalace
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« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2010, 02:04:15 PM » |
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You know you can post more than one time in a thread right? You should just combine all these single picture threads into one. Oh yea to the forum. OK, sorry, not really sure how to do that...computer idiot here. Not easy to teach a 62 year old horse new tricks. But I'll learn how to do it. And thanks for the welcome. |
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« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2010, 02:55:22 PM » |
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You can see it - lower forward of the tank. You get used to it after a while. I'm not bad mouthing Harleys but their engineering must be 30 years behind the times but I guess they are doing something right.
I wouldn't be so sure. |
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« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2010, 06:19:31 PM » |
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I like it. Best thing in my eyes is they can't be had new any longer.
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« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2010, 07:36:29 PM » |
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those pipes are ginormous! looks like you're running lean from the brown color on the head pipes too.
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« Reply #11 on: January 08, 2010, 06:10:30 AM » |
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looks like you're running lean from the brown color on the head pipes too. Always wondered about that. I too have been told that brown pipes, running lean, blue pipes running rich. But, in my mind, running lean would mean the motor is running hotter. Running rich is running coooler, unburned fuel blackens/browns the pipes. Perhaps its a chemical thing and not a thermal thing. |
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« Reply #12 on: January 08, 2010, 08:59:59 AM » |
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Always wondered about that. I too have been told that brown pipes, running lean, blue pipes running rich. But, in my mind, running lean would mean the motor is running hotter. Running rich is running coooler, unburned fuel blackens/browns the pipes. Perhaps its a chemical thing and not a thermal thing.
When unburnt fuel in the cylinder is exposed to heat and oxygen in the exhaust pipes upon exhaust valve opening, it can detonate there, creating even more heat in the pipe, causing the bluing. |
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« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2010, 09:50:38 AM » |
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« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2010, 10:06:15 AM » |
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The pipes look to be stainless steel and are probably single wall. I'm wondering if the stainless just turns a different color from the heat?
All of our pipes would have some degree of discoloration at the heads if they weren't dual walled.
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mambopalace
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« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2010, 11:08:36 AM » |
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The pipes look to be stainless steel and are probably single wall. I'm wondering if the stainless just turns a different color from the heat?
All of our pipes would have some degree of discoloration at the heads if they weren't dual walled.
They are stainless steel and single wall. Instructions included with the set stated that they will under normal conditions turn a golden brown color once the bike is ridden. They did excatly that. |
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« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2010, 07:24:27 AM » |
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The pipes look to be stainless steel and are probably single wall. I'm wondering if the stainless just turns a different color from the heat?
All of our pipes would have some degree of discoloration at the heads if they weren't dual walled.
They are stainless steel and single wall. Instructions included with the set stated that they will under normal conditions turn a golden brown color once the bike is ridden. They did excatly that. I recently checked out a very low-mileage Suzuki Gladius...the pipes had done exactly the same thing. I found it disconcerting...especially since the chrome pipes on my Nighthawk are still as shiny as the day they left the factory 10 years ago!!!  |
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