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Added two new accessories to mine within the last couple of weeks.

I looked at several different front fairings and windscreens and settled on the Batwing SML by Puig. I love the look of the mini batwing fairing along with the longer touring, medium-smoke windscreen. They sell the shorter "sport" windscreen in both clear and (medium) smoke tint. Installation wasn't too difficult. Price was also more within my budget (at less than $350 USD) as compared to the other fairings I was looking at from Corbin, Wunderlich and DKdesign. I didn't think my fairing would arrive before my trip but it arrived the day before and I was able to get it installed.

I had been shopping for saddlebags for a while as I wanted something that was hard-shell with good cargo space yet stylish enough not to take away from the look of the bike. I believe I found that with the Overlord saddlebags from Viking Bags. Black matte-finished leather reinforced with hard, durable plastic to help keep its form with or with cargo. The teardrop shape follows the lines of the rear fender nicely. And installing the saddlebags did not interfere or affect the mounting of the rear luggage rack I already had in place.

They were immediately put to use on an 1100+ mile roundtrip journey from Las Vegas to Reno and back in two days. Both accessories performed as expected and I am extremely happy with everything.

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HSSPaul said:
After 19,000kms my front tire was toast. I was never a fan of the OEM tires on this bike so I decided to throw on a set of White Wall Shinko 777's.
Loving the look and they seem to ride nice with a great turn in feel!

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Nice! Shinko 777's are best value for the money in my opinion. Let us know how much mileage you were able to get from them both.
 
sideoutrocker said:
Added two new accessories to mine within the last couple of weeks.

I looked at several different front fairings and windscreens and settled on the Batwing SML by Puig. I love the look of the mini batwing fairing along with the longer touring, medium-smoke windscreen. They sell the shorter "sport" windscreen in both clear and (medium) smoke tint. Installation wasn't too difficult. Price was also more within my budget (at less than $350 USD) as compared to the other fairings I was looking at from Corbin, Wunderlich and DKdesign. I didn't think my fairing would arrive before my trip but it arrived the day before and I was able to get it installed.

I had been shopping for saddlebags for a while as I wanted something that was hard-shell with good cargo space yet stylish enough not to take away from the look of the bike. I believe I found that with the Overlord saddlebags from Viking Bags. Black matte-finished leather reinforced with hard, durable plastic to help keep its form with or with cargo. The teardrop shape follows the lines of the rear fender nicely. And installing the saddlebags did not interfere or affect the mounting of the rear luggage rack I already had in place.

They were immediately put to use on an 1100+ mile roundtrip journey from Las Vegas to Reno and back in two days. Both accessories performed as expected and I am extremely happy with everything.

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Nice one mate, I think she looks the part. 👍👍👍
 
sideoutrocker said:
Added two new accessories to mine within the last couple of weeks.

I looked at several different front fairings and windscreens and settled on the Batwing SML by Puig. I love the look of the mini batwing fairing along with the longer touring, medium-smoke windscreen. They sell the shorter "sport" windscreen in both clear and (medium) smoke tint. Installation wasn't too difficult. Price was also more within my budget (at less than $350 USD) as compared to the other fairings I was looking at from Corbin, Wunderlich and DKdesign. I didn't think my fairing would arrive before my trip but it arrived the day before and I was able to get it installed.

I had been shopping for saddlebags for a while as I wanted something that was hard-shell with good cargo space yet stylish enough not to take away from the look of the bike. I believe I found that with the Overlord saddlebags from Viking Bags. Black matte-finished leather reinforced with hard, durable plastic to help keep its form with or with cargo. The teardrop shape follows the lines of the rear fender nicely. And installing the saddlebags did not interfere or affect the mounting of the rear luggage rack I already had in place.

They were immediately put to use on an 1100+ mile roundtrip journey from Las Vegas to Reno and back in two days. Both accessories performed as expected and I am extremely happy with everything.

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And always nice to see the iconic fishies
 
The 100th's stock Arkapovic is so low profile that no one will know it's an Arka unless getting near to itIMG20240601222042.jpg

After some thinking, I went out to get some high temp paint and did the following
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1st try, I gotten the paint to dry and used an alcohol swab and tried to clean the excess paint off, but as the engraving wasn't deep enough, everything was cleaned off by the swab.
I tried a 2nd time and this time using a coin and started to "scratch" on the surface slowly and lightly, going perpendicular to the grooves of the wordings

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After about 30-40mins of "scratching" the surface I got to this-->

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Looks a little more obvious to me.

Spend another 10-15 mins to clean up the little bits
 
Disconnect the exhaust flappers, you do get a bit more ‘thud’ at lower speeds and pulling away from standstill, not Harley stage 1 loud (by any means) but it’s worth considering, maybe 🤷‍♂️.
 
Star-Lord said:
I may order two Servo Buddy modules today and give it a shot; I'm thinking it will only enhance the Jekyll and Hyde exhaust sound...
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I thought that was how they worked - opening an closing a servo? Do they add their own servo then instead of operating the stock ones?
 
widu13 said:
I thought that was how they worked - opening an closing a servo? Do they add their own servo then instead of operating the stock ones?
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No they just 'pretend' to the ECU that the servo is still connected ... thus avoiding error codes being thrown.
 
Ulrich said:
No they just 'pretend' to the ECU that the servo is still connected ... thus avoiding error codes being thrown.
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Not the servo buddies- the exhaust. It has to have servos to alter the pitch? Does it have it's own or use the stock ones?

I've got the switchable ones installed myself.
 
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