This illustrates one advantage of using, for example, either an HD Super Tuner Pro, or Power Vision. Both connect to the factory diagnostic connection, which you access by simply removing the seat.

Getting at the actual ECM is a very labor intensive process on the Breakout, as I found out when I added the siren to my alarm. It requires removing the forward mudflap on the rear fender, which requires removal of the rear wheel. Since I have no garage, and a gravel driveway with a 7% slope, I paid my dealer to do it.

Jim G

 

any chance you could get me a little closer pic of the extensions? i'm curious how they look compared to mine.

 

Where do you park the Breakout?

 

Here you go JIXeR. Some close ups of my extensions. Quality of the extensions I do not have a problem with, they look good. Just feels like I did not receive what I should have. I think I need to have a chat to them about it.

 

We are currently living in a cabin, that has a gravel driveway that slopes steeply from the road to the cabin. There is no garage. I park the Breakout at the top end of the driveway, and it is covered with the heavy duty vented outdoor cover that HD sells.

Because the Breakout is so low in height, the cover comes down to ground level in its "uncorseted" form. However, I use the "corset strings" setup that is built into the cover to "tighten" the cover somewhat around the bike, until the bottom hem of the cover is just above ground level. This ensures that the bike is fully covered, included the wheels, against rain, wind, and rain splashback, but allows air to circulate under the cover around the bike (the top vents allow this circulation to be "flow through"). This prevents accumulation of moisture.

The cover as delivered comes with a pair of compression ropes at the front wheel, that tighten the cover around and under the front of the front wheel. A similar arrangement at the back of the bike tightens the cover around and under the rear wheel. A central quick release 1" wide strap tightens the cover around the center of the bike from underneath. Leaving the footpegs extended forces the cover to conform around them, adding to the "air space" around the bike. The cover is plenty strong enough so the footpegs present no piercing possibility.

The "corset strings" setup on the top of the cover allows you to customize the fit of the cover to the bike to get just the right dimensions to allow air circulation but discourage flapping in any wind.

The cover as delivered is able to handle pretty good winds without flapping or coming off the bike at either end, but when we got 50 mph wind gusts a few weeks ago, the gusts lifted the cover off the front wheel and started to try to peel it back. I remedied that then and forever by adding a bungee cord to supplement the front compression strings. The bungee cord runs through the front wheel spokes, at the rim directly below the axle, through 2 slots that HD provided to run a chain or cable lock through, and the hooks of the bungee hook to each other (not the bike) right at the front bottom of the cover. This forces the cover tightly against the front tire without the bungee hooks contacting the bike. The cover has been stable with this arrangement through a recent high wind thunderstorm that the National Weather Service classified as "severe".

Because the cover rides over the mirrors at the front, and over the quick detach sissy bar at the rear, and because the front and rear fenders are both, uh, "minimal", on the Breakout, all the expensive metalflake paint (front fender, fuel tank, and rear fender) is protected against even the possibility of hail, but if I am home and the possibility of hail is announced on TV, I always, as extra insurance, place a cheap heavy blanket over the fuel tank and another one over the rear fender, both covers being under the bike cover, between the cover and the parts they protect.

The cover takes less than a minute to remove, and under 2 minutes to put on.

Jim G

p.s. The Breakout jiffy stand handled the 50 mph wind gusts no sweat.

 

i definitely would if you think you got overcharged. but to be honest, i would have requested the arlen ness anyway. hahaha. so, i think you got the better product, just hopefully not at the expense of the higher price. it looks great by the way. really hope someone gets me these for my birthday in a couple weeks. *COUGH* *COUGH*

 

Damn, that was a hell of a response. LOL Could have just said "Outside under a cover".

 

I tend to be "thorough".

Jim G

 

Oh, hell, I've come this far, I may as well add a photo:





Jim G

 

You must live in a good neighborhood. My cover reads "Cricket", made in Taiwan .