you will lose so much money trading up, its crazy. (say you lose ~$2000?)

then you have to RE-DO everything you did to your bike ($3000?)

and the "Harley Tax" on a M8 is like $1500 (pipes, AC, PV) vice $750 on a Twin Cam.

you could LOSE 5k,
but if you put 2 or 3k into you bike, WOW!!!

I don't think my stock M8 is that much stronger than a well tuned Stage 1 TC103 without a Cat.

YMMV.

 

 

 

Fuel Moto's 107, and Howard's Ohlins set-up, will make that bike think it should be on the track.

 

You are right but I would lose a lot more trading up. In the end i would probably be out about 14,000 dollars to go new and build up the new bike, maybe more.

 

That is the way I am thinking and for a lot less money as well. i would have no problem keeping this RKC indefinately with these mods as I am now 64 and will probably wear out before the bike.

 

Black and chrome like a good Harley.

 

 

You can't tune the new bikes like you can tune the older ones. You can make your bike go faster by leaps and bounds, but with the new bikes what you get has to pretty much stay the same.

 

The bad thing about "building" a bike as you like is that you will see very little of that money when and if you ever sell your bike so be prepared to either take this loss or "ride" your money and miles out of it.

When I had my 2000 Ultra T/C 88, I had a Baker 6spd tranny installed in it only to discover that even though I liked the tranny but the T/C 88 just didn't have enough muscle to push it very well. So I had the "95" Big Bore Kit installed in it and it did make huge mid-range torque improvement and it ran great but a big, heavy bike will never keep up with the smaller cruisers.

On my current bike I changed the exhaust, had a tuner installed, and had it dyno'ed just to make sure that it ran cooler and sounded great.

If you want a newer bike and you can afford I would rather go that way as opposed to dropping money into an older machine that in time most dealers won't even service, it that's of any consideration to you.