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Old Oct 9, 2017 | 04:34 PM
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Have a chance to pick up some big radius pipes for my road king,any ya or nay
 
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Old Oct 9, 2017 | 04:40 PM
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Have a chance to pick up some big radius pipes for my road king,any ya or nay
I like them....
 
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Old Oct 9, 2017 | 05:43 PM
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Bike is in the shop having 510 cams and dynoed tommorow,I have screaming eagle slip ons now but300 bucks for nice looking big radius ,never heard them but big thing is anything I might be overlooking before I dive in,IF I do
 
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Old Oct 9, 2017 | 05:58 PM
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i have them on a 2014 flhxs, they are more for looks then performance imo. If you are going stage 2 then a 2-1 pipe would really be ideal. Rob
 
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Old Oct 9, 2017 | 06:03 PM
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I have big radius on my Fatboy Lo. LOVE the look, but I know I'm giving back some power.
 
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Old Oct 9, 2017 | 06:27 PM
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If YAY, then pick up some ear plugs.
 
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Old Oct 9, 2017 | 07:13 PM
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Don't like 'em. WAY too "trendy". Everyone's got 'em.
Prefer staggered duals. Harleys sound more "Harley-ish" when the pipe openings are far apart, not next to each other like Radius has.
 
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Old Oct 9, 2017 | 08:11 PM
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I had them on my road king. I liked the look but felt they robbed performance.
So as stated a stage 2 deserves a good performance pipe. Yea, they were loud.
 
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I had them a couple Road Glides ago in black and loved the look to include the sound. All in what you want but there are tons of options out there. On the New Glide I just last week had RC headers and slips along with a SE breather and tune. For an M8 the thing sounds pretty good. Looking at the performance specs of RC is one of the reasons I went this route.
 
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Old Oct 9, 2017 | 08:35 PM
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Trendy? They've been around for a very long time.

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Don't like 'em. WAY too "trendy". Everyone's got 'em.
Prefer staggered duals. Harleys sound more "Harley-ish" when the pipe openings are far apart, not next to each other like Radius has.
 
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