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Old 08-28-2018, 06:44 AM
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Originally Posted by DK Custom
My Sporty had been ignored too long, so this morning I got on it to ride into work...dead battery, I had left the ignition on. Ack!

It is on the charger now, and I rode the Softail in, again. lol
I've done that a couple times with that accessory? position, one of these days I want to go over the wiring and figure out how to disable that position. I'd like the kill switch to somehow cut all electrical power, too. Then we'd forget to take our keys out...
 
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Old 08-30-2018, 04:10 PM
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The Iron 1200 seat arrived this afternoon, wasted no time mounting on the bike. Feels pretty comfortable just sitting on it, haven't had the chance to ride the bike with it yet. This seat is about 4" narrower than the stock seat. Seeing the Sportster is a narrow bike, IMO it looks better than the wider stock SuperLow seat.

Bought it off of ebay from a guy who said he rode the bike home from the dealer and swapped seats. I can't argue with that, the seat looks brand new.

 
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Old 08-30-2018, 04:19 PM
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Originally Posted by firehawk6
The Iron 1200 seat arrived this afternoon, wasted no time mounting on the bike.

Nice upgrade. I hope it works as good as it looks.
 
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Old 08-30-2018, 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by underwhelmd
Nice upgrade. I hope it works as good as it looks.
I plan to get out later this evening AFTER traffic dies down and try it out. Hopefully it will will work out comfort wise because I like the looks of it, if not I won't be out anything though. My son want's one for his 883 Iron and said he'd buy it off me if I end up not liking it.

 
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Old 08-30-2018, 05:29 PM
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Got my whitewalls ordered....AVON AV71/72's, she gonna look sexy with em

 
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Old 08-30-2018, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by firehawk6
The Iron 1200 seat arrived this afternoon, wasted no time mounting on the bike. Feels pretty comfortable just sitting on it, haven't had the chance to ride the bike with it yet. This seat is about 4" narrower than the stock seat. Seeing the Sportster is a narrow bike, IMO it looks better than the wider stock SuperLow seat.

Bought it off of ebay from a guy who said he rode the bike home from the dealer and swapped seats. I can't argue with that, the seat looks brand new.

where did you get those bags? top and sides
 
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Old 08-30-2018, 06:48 PM
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Custom Torque / Quiet Baffles we made for the Vance & Hines Grenades! Got our low and mid torque back and it purrrs until getting on the throttle. Almost sounds like a 2-1 Now!

 
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Old 08-30-2018, 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by PovertyRider
Stage 1 completed with big sucker air cleaner (with some added custom graphics). Nice leisurely ride on my day off and monitoring the FP3. Bike runs cooler and maybe a little better throttle response and 0 decel popping.

PR, I have a tool bag I want to attach to my bike. It would hang low like the one in your picture above. Do you worry that when the forks compress you'll damage the fender or does the leather give enough to prevent that from happening?
 
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Originally Posted by gerald martin
where did you get those bags? top and sides
https://www.vikingbags.com/harley-sp...saddlebags.htm

http://www.rarebag.de/

https://badgcustoms.com/bags/harley-...sportster/sl02
 

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those rarebags are sick, pricey, but amazing.............been eyeing a new tool bag, will come from them (with the skull of course)
 


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