Nice mirrors, they look familiar,

 

I'm not sure if I'm a fan of these but somewhere I found black painted apes with turn signals mounted inside. Yaffe maybe?..... I gotta find the link again

 

Am I an official Badboy? Wife say idiot, but that is her opinion.

I purchased the bike this week (not sure how to insert pictures) to go along with my beloved 02 Road Glide. It is a 1995 FXSTSB with 6000 miles. It has apes, but I am thinking about going with drag bars. We are never happy are we?

The balance of winter in Minnesota will be long waiting to get the bike on some clean roads, but that will give me time to look at different bars, find some bags and I love the Rip Saw pipes on Skullheads bike. How do they sound?

I will be back soon with a lot of questions. Thanks in advance for your help and any suggestions for bars, bags, finding original parts will be appreciated.

 

You're in the club. Bars are a matter of preference. I like drags.

 

Welcome! One more added to our little group.

I have the Rip Saw IIIs which have the baffle. They do sound nice, real deep. However that bottom turn down does like to drag on those right hand turns. But then again I keep mine pretty low.

Have drags want apes have apes want drags, the grass is always greener!!

 

Thanks for the warm welcome guys. I look forward to picking your brains on making my ride look as nice as both of yours.

 

Welcome MN,

How many times a year do you peoples see another SB? In Chitown I'm 'lucky' to see one or two a year...

 

I have yet to actually see one on the road.

 

How many other people can say that and be proud? Cannot count as many times I've told that or been asked what model it is in parking lots.

 

OK, I got my eBay special, 100.00 Thunderheader and thought I'd do a little review. Take this all with a grain of salt as it is just my personal observations.

Quality: As this is a used piece and from the looks of it came off a bike that was used I think quality is better than I was expecting. When I got the pipe it was very dirty and had very heavy carbon build up on the end.

All the welds are in good shape with no signs of rust. The finish overall looks very good with no rust. Pipe feels solid overall when you handle it has some heft to it but these are Harleys not racers.

Busted out the cleaners and never dull and was quite pleased at how well the pipe shined up. The only problem area I have is in one spot where it looks like plactic is melted on the pipe. It is a decent size so I'm thing rain pants or nylon sweat pants maybe? Not sure how I'll get that off without scratching the pipe. Maybe heat it with a torch?

I'll get the pipe mounted and give you the seat of the pants review next.