by Matt on December 6, 2007
What kind of oil should you use on your seat to ensure the old lady slips off the back when you take off? Oh, wait, wrong topic. Let me start over…
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What kind of oil should you use on your Sportster, petroleum based or synthetic? First let me go out on a limb and advise you die-hard HD fans that the HD brand oil is inferior to other oils. (This from an actual HD mechanic I know, shhh.)
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by admin on November 20, 2007
Pretty cool review of the Harley Davidson Nightster from Motors TV. Of note, you can see that the European version of the bike has the traditional center-mounted plate instead of the side-mounted, fold-away license plate that you see in the States and Canada. I’m assuming that’s to comply with traffic laws across the pond, maybe someone who lives in Europe can confirm or not! Too bad that they had to remove the side mount plate as it’s one of the really cool features of the Nightster along with the bobbed fender, ultra low seat and rubber fork gaiters.
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by admin on October 27, 2007
This review has been guest contributed by Vladimir Ferdman.
I purchased these soon after I took delivery of my new 2004 Sportster 883. I bought them to pay the Harley Tax, which consists of installing a less restrictive air cleaner, less restrictive mufflers and adjusting the carburetor appropriately. I chose these mufflers because, unlike the Screaming Eagle mufflers, these are much more quiet. I must be very non-typical Harley owner in that I do not like my Sportster to be loud. I also liked the looks of these mufflers a lot with the slash down ends and scripted “Harley-Davidson” embossed into the rear muffler.
The installation was very straight forward, although removing the stock mufflers was a bit difficult as they really mated to the header pipes pretty good. After removing the stock mufflers I slipped the new ones on using new crossover gaskets and new clamps. These items were included with the mufflers. I reused the bracket bolts from the old mufflers. That was pretty much all it took.
They sound similar to the stock mufflers but ever so slightly growlier. If you are looking for that Harley bark, you won’t find it here. The performance of these mufflers was ok. They provided improvement over stock.
Here is the picture of my bike with the Slip On mufflers.
