It's hard! Nobody in my HOG chapter wanted anything to do with my Sporty. I'm on that forum too ,what your have to remember is it's a big forum with many many bikes,the ones that do have trouble make the most noise by far as with any forum. You won't hear much from the masses who haven't had failures as they have nothing to complain about.
From what I've heard certain years of bikes '03's being one have had much more trouble than others. Harley changed vendors a couple times and got some poor quailty shoes from what I've read. I've heard the early motors from like my '00 didn't have many problems with tensioner shoes as long as they were left stock. Some had wear from aftermarket performance cams putting a higher load on the shoes from what I've heard too. Still there's no doubt that the tensioners can be the achilles heal of the Twincam engine.
Ahh ya, I've done about , miles on baggers now with plenty of stock miles. The TC88 does a lot better than the old Evo did. A lot of guys simply lug them too much,I had no trouble pulling hills two up after I got the stage one done.
One reason the baggers seem so underpowered is they have hiway gearing,I can hit to in forth gear. The other reason of course is the weight,the wind it's pushing and the friction of fat tires. It all adds up. The Superglides with TC88s are hardly slugs and with a stage one run pretty nice. Cost for a 95" upgrade is about the same as an to in a Sporty and really makes a big difference. The Baisley heads made a huge difference!
I know if I had my motor in a Superglide it would flat out haul :D. This is very interesting. Generally Sporty's still are fastest and quickest but not like I use to remember if all those speed and quarter mile times on newer bikes are correct.
I guess this for two reasons: 1. Sporty's have gained 60 to 70 lbs since This was in just as Harley was getting away from AMF. Shoulda been the other way 'round He shoulda been lookin at your taillights until high-speed I smoked a big dog chopper a fatboy and an eglide with the wife on the back a month or so ago. My tank also says Makes it all the more fun Can't believe a salesman would lie to you like that, guess he cares more about his money then actually makeing a sale. The only aspect I like of the BT's is they are for touring so you can sit comfortablly alot longer.
But thats about it. At the stock speeds and ET's listed a good rider would be the difference. I see a lot of dyno sheets and rarely do you see 80 rwhp on any of them unless the dyno is cheated. This bike tears up a lot of the big twins around. My sporty has 70 HP 76 ft lbs and eats it's lunch. At the local drag strip on H-D night the stage 1 V-rods run in the 11's. The sportsters run mostly in the 12's unless a newbie is ridin, and not too many big twins even break out of the 13's.
Guess the faster ones stay at home on the porch! Dave Ride to Live! Here's my before and after dyno sheet from my recent build. The dip at rpm is gone now with some more carb tuning. I also lost some torque with the new Rinehart true duals added after this dyno run but it's not realy noticeable and I love the looks and sound.
You don't want to race any of these Dynas with your :roflblack why would i want to? You don't want to race any of these Dynas with your :roflblack Any bike can be built to high horsepower levels if it is mainly for the strip, including my C or my Dyna WideGlide.. Pretty easy to tell when stock pipes are on, very mellow sounding. And exhuast pitch many times will give away if he upp'd his compression too, higher pitched exhaust notes tend to give away compression of the engine.
Either way was this race with your cylinder kit installed? Yeah, and you still have the gearing of the right? Didnt change the secondary sprocket out did you? Hmm, if that was a stock 88" and your jetted and freed your engine up, it probably would be a pretty even race. Just imaging what good heads and a killer cam like the SE or Redshift bring to the table. Any bike can be built to high horsepower levels if it is mainly for the strip, including my C or my Dyna WideGlide..
See here's the weird part I don't like to rev high I like to kick ass stoplight to stoplight I guess I just need more inches All three of those bikes are on the street. They fill the tank with Sunaco octane from a 55 gal drum.
I'm with ya on that What would something like that do in the quarter mile, low 10's, maybe mid to high 9's? My tank plainly reads When it comes down to what is faster, though gearing is very important, a great baseline is Power to Weight ratio.
Softtail standards, though feel gutty prolly won't run too far off of a , but it won't be "as" quick at reasonable v-twin harley speeds sub Well guys, since I have had an 04 R that had work done to it and I now have an 05 Dyna at stage one.
I can honestly tell you my Dyna is really not much slower thatn my sporty was. The sporty would win but not by more than a couple of bike lengths. My Dyna is quick for sure, not sporty fast but still quick. I can bang through the gears real fast and be doing in no time. I have beaten softails quite often and they are slower for sure. Forget the glides, they are to big. Bigger power and bigger weight. Just not enough to do the in, but close A bike like that must be a torque and horsepower monster in the 'stoplight' or quarter mile drags.
I would think it would knock off 10s with ease. Same engine builder set a national record back in with a 93'' Evo FXR that had Fueling 4 valve heads on it. Street eliminater class,it ran a That was 93" this monster is a " with all the goodies in it. I suspect it is very fast :D. I like my Dyna andwill run any bike for fun just for braggin rights.
They build some bad ass XLs and Buells there too. Sportys run out at top-end seems like 80ish they start hurting atleast on my 98 C. Im sure all the Big Twins are cruiser highway style. All of the bikes are in very good tune, guess what these days would be considered at least a "Stage One" setup, and the riders are all very experienced, most having ridden Harley's for a number of years. Down around Tulsa there is an annual 'get together' at a local drag strip where quite a few of these bikes have run the timed quarter mile.
Most of the EVO's seem to run in the high 13 to low 14 second range. The Twin Cams are a little quicker, running in the mid 13 second range. I haven't had a chance to run my C in the timed quarter mile, but a rough estimate would be that it is currently running in the mid 12 second range. The Sportster's are very quick bikes, especially with a few modifications.
I would look at tuning if your runs out of gas at 80ish. That's when my bike starts hauling ass. If you don't lean over a bit at those speeds it might not be the bike, but you aren't comfortable because the wind is slapping you around.
This thread fascinated me. Since I've had the sporty since fall of '88 and just now got my first BT, a used, mostly unmodified '95 evo softail, That is my observation But the 80" evo is faster, I had a little left in the throttle but no room to do it in at mph. But the Softail is Sooo much more comfy doing it. And, I might add, way hotter looking.
The sportster is like a hot California Blonde in a tube top and daisy dukes looking for company. She will hurt you on the ride, but you will love it all the same. Oh, she's beautiful, and the ride is great, but she needs more "commitment".
She's more comfortable, And She's More expensive. Besides, all this talkabout performance and horsepower I have an excellent mechanic.
His advice is to go a little mild on the mods. You get too radical, with either a sporty or a BT, sure you gain speed, but give up reliability. He says to me "sure, I could build your sportster to kick a stock V-Rod's ass. The Harley-Davidson Sportster top speed is How much does a Harley-Davidson Sportster weighs?
The Harley-Davidson Sportster weighs How tall seat height is a Harley-Davidson Sportster ? The Harley-Davidson Sportster seat height is mm How many gears does a Harley-Davidson Sportster have? The Harley-Davidson Sportster have 5 gears. It comes nestled between blackout lower-leg sliders that are topped with bellow gaiters below a similarly-achromatic tripletree, flyscreen, and handlebar.
Pipes and mufflers join in the fun as they sweep back past the blackened shocks, struts, and turn-signal housings. A bobbed rear fender finishes off the rear end with little in the way of excess weight. The fender is cut back to within a few inches of the fender struts with a compact LED taillight slung under the trailing edge. As usual, you can forget about dragging your elbow on this ride, but you can count on a degree lean angle to the left, minus one degree for the exhaust for a total of 27 degrees to the right.
The narrow frame, swingarm, and front end are hallmarks of the XL line that come properly represented on the newest Iron Sporty. A degree rake pushes the front wheel out for a Oh well, at least the shocks have one redeeming quality; they pull the laden seat height down to Low seat heights lend confidence at lights and in parking lots, so the relaxed attitude is a constant across the usage spectrum.
Power on the Iron comes from an engine with quite a long service record. The Evolution Sportster first greeted the world back in Sure, you could just call it outdated, but the MoCo has had 32 years to perfect this engine that has seen the birth and demise of entire generations of Big-Twin plants. At 1, cc Engine control comes down to cables and electronic fuel injection, but little else in the wizardry department. No, still no traction control or rider modes to be found, just the reliable low-end torque that makes Sporties so much fun.
Riders can expect something around 48 mpg, though as with everything else, individual results may vary depending on riding style, terrain, load, and how much you had for lunch. A five-speed transmixxer crunches the ratios and sends power to the rear wheel via a reinforced belt drive.
As usual, color choice has an effect on price.
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