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  TC883

  6 years ago

  Great to hear mate. I remember when I got my first, and still current Harley. Sportster Iron 883. My previous bike was also a Ducati, a super sport. Like you say, as long as you ride the Harley as it was designed, there is a LOT of fun to be had! Cheers, TC

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  TC883

  6 years ago

  Nice work on the mods. Saw your bike in the show us your ride thread. Very nice tins on it. Good call on changing the air filter. The whole forward facing pod thing only works on certain bikes, and your 48 is not one of them! I went for a round filter with an open element myself, just something simple. The stock air filter they are fitting to Iron's now looks good IMHO as well. Safe riding. TC

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  shadowarrior

  6 years ago

  Mate you need to post a pic of the bike...can't write good things about it and then not post pictures! Congrats on your new bike! Gasoline Alley SE QLD? We should start a SE QLD Sportsters club! :)

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  Krash Kinkade

  6 years ago

  Great news mate!!

  I love all bikes myself & would like to ride a Ducati, just the service costs scare me, as no valve springs & a belt driven OHC's.

  Your new 48 a lot simpler with push rods, gear driven cam's Hydraulic lifters so about all you need to do is change oil, change oil filter, check primary chain adjustment, adjust clutch, check tyre pressure & ride. 

  But nothing wrong with Big Twins, you can get mid control's. big twins have more Torque. Sporty's fun to ride.

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  Far Canal

  6 years ago

  After a ducati the brakes on your HD will never seem as good. There are thing$ you can do to make them better.
  

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  Far Canal

  6 years ago

  You can probably put a Performance Machine 6 spot caliper on. This conversion seems to work best if you go the bit extra and add a PM larger dia brake disc as well.
  I did that with my FXST and the improvement was noticeable (uses the stock master cylinder too). I am assuming the same upgrade is available for your model.
  

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  shadowarrior

  6 years ago

  I had same feeling about the brakes when I got my sporty coming from mostly supersports and muscle tourers. I have to go all in and give it a good squeeze for emergency braking. The ZRX1200 with 310mm twin front rotors stopped at the drop of a dime. 

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  steelo

  6 years ago

  7 days from loving it to selling it on. Do you have a new bike plan HOGGY?

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  Grubster

  6 years ago

  Looks the goods, very nice. Sporties are a lot of fun, enjoy.

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  steelo

  6 years ago

  Sorry CD and Hoggy. I mistook CD's review as HOGGYs. I was interested in whether the "size and buyers remorse" comments in the review may have been the catalyst for selling this one and getting a bigger bike perhaps. GLWS.

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  Kingchops

  6 years ago

  I've removed the "for sale" post made in this thread.  Keep "for sale" posts in the appropriate section.

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  AlHD48

  6 years ago

  48s are awesome, my mate just brought a fatboy s 110 , I got to ride it and man it was heavy and supprisingly not as fast as i expected , even with the stage 1 and dyno 
  

  love how sporties are quick and they can move

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  srd0060

  6 years ago

  It was explained to me when I got my first Harley that if you want to ride fast on a screaming bike around corners and feel like your sitting on a fence buy Jap, if you like a lot of steel/lron, low reving, high torque and good looking bike buy a Harley. I rode my sons Ninja OMG it was terrible but stops well... my streetbob will do me.

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  brash

  6 years ago

  do the 883 28 tooth conversion, best thing I ever did when I had my 48. Woke it up as much as the cam/heads did IMO.
  
  Makes 5th gear more usable too. Only downside is it puts the speedo out a few km's/h out, easily fixed with a powervision or any other tuning tool with access to the VSS.
  
  I have one you can have for a pineapple, it's just a paperweight here.
  

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  brash

  6 years ago

  I'd rather just add 7.1% to the VSS table than get my hands dirty haha
  

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  steelo

  6 years ago

  Got any pics of the supertrapps on the bike

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  Fire511

  6 years ago

  I loved my 48, definitely have some great memories riding it. 

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  fatbat

  6 years ago

  Just read your story and updates along the way which was good reading. Glad you're liking it and the trapp pipe has made a good difference to your midrange. 
  

  Surprised that you're running with no endcap at all as the trapp endcap is shaped a particular way to provide backpressure for low down torque. Was it dyno tested to see the difference between the open end cap and no end cap?

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  steelo

  6 years ago

  Oh yeah! That looks good. Esp with open end cap.

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  Krash Kinkade

  6 years ago

  the supertrapp looks good.

  how many disc's,

  I used a supertrapp with a 95 inch twin cam tuning from 12 to 18 disc's, but my system you could see the disc's, I had race open endcap. a friend had one on a dresser with the closed encapsulated needed 21 disc's,  when you tune with closed end need to add more disc's, but can gain torque taking disc's out.

  does it have finer glass packing and can you repack silencer.