What's your performance improvement "yardstick"?
 

Performance as in the full meal deal: power, handling, braking, with minor categories such as comfort&looks.

Is your yardstick the low hanging fruit of the OEM version of your bike?
An experience of actually riding someone elses Hi performance Dyna?
Just stuff ya read on the intertubes?
A modern well engineered motorcycle ( yeah even the new HD softails could count)?

For me with 90K on the Odo and the childish inability to leave well enough alone, I've had a progression in my yardsticks from OEM to modern designed motorcyle; albeit, I've missed out on the chance to ride someone else's Hi performance Dyna ( I have ridden a Softail Lowrider with the 114 M8: shiiiit, my bike way faster, man). Nowadays I've started using my Yamaha Tracer GT 900 as my yardstick ( a gentleman's version of the FZ-09). A totally unreasonable proposition!

1. Brakes
2. handling (shocks, forks and chassis stiffness)
3. ergonomic
4. power

That’s what getting you faster. And of course education on riding.

I've owned a 2006 Ducati 749S, 2003 Aprilia RSV Mile and ridden CBR 1000 Fireblades, S1000RRs, so I got a good idea of what fast is from these bikes haha.
I've ridden every model Harley have released in the past 10 years.

My Dyna doesn't compete and never will but that's it's charm right?

I always think it's more fun to ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow and with the speed limits we have nowadays it makes total sense.

Sure Bob, although with a stock Street Bob or Super Glide it's 6s between brakes and suspension, both are so feeble in OEM trim ( .50 fork springs, hope you don't weigh much over a 100lbs :mad:)
And of course training+ experience are the most important part of going fast. However, the thrust of the thread is not what should you fix on a Dyna to go faster, but rather what are you measuring your mods against.

Ah, you up North across the border. yeah you guys got some crazy slow speed limits but some awesome areas to ride thru. Been up there a couple times on the Dyna. Yep, I agree; in particular, I get off on riding my Dyna hard with zero rider aids: no ABS, traction control, freakin gyroscopic gymballs to "help" me keep the bike up, etc.

Exactly. When I need low rpm torque therapy, great sound & style, no gadgetry, and bad brakes, my Heritage fits the bill. If I need some high rpm HP thrill, great brakes, mediocre sound & looks, I enjoy a Multistrada.

Your ass should be your yardstick, what feels improved to you is all that matters when you get real about.

Shiiit, and I thought I was Captain Obvious! Good to see ya still kickin'. Remember when I used to post here as Loner88 and u giving me shit about trailers , which I didn't use till the first year of the Plandemic with my Yamaha taking it up to Idaho.

Yeah, of course. Who else will feel the improvements for you? Sometimes we need others experience to point us in the right direction

Tell you a little story, this has played out the same many many times over the years with various bikes and the owners. Ride a machine, tweak a few things to get optimal for what it is and off the owner goes. Time passes, sometime a short while and said owner gets busy, spends a bunch of money and eventually the bike finds it's way back to me again. I'll ride it, most the time if I feel any real difference it isn't drastic unless major engine work & growth happened but said owners have a dyno sheet and a lot lighter wallet saying they are the cats ass now.

It's all in perspective.

a little story indeed