Good job on your bike...
i'm not criticising your mods for their qualities, just because it's not my taste, I try to explain...
for me the Softail standard is a cool stripped down bike as the Street Bob, a sort of modern bobber or chopper and I find it more cool with a ape hanger, forwards controls and two pipes...
you choose to give it a club style look and it's your choice and I respect that, but I find that the club style fits better on a Low Rider S for example...
but it's my vision...

 

it originally had apes, factory forwards and dual chrome pipes. After a couple years I decided to do motor work on it. With forwards there was no way to run a high flow intake (knee kept hitting the airbox) and the dual V&H pipes wasn’t giving the same hp/tq I got with running a 2 into 1 so I decided to change the look of the bike after it came off the dyno.
here’s a before photo.

 

was nice, I prefere this version...
but I understand you like to have a sportier bike, and the mods are by this way justified...

 

any problems with your repainted rims? Just thinking it must have been something you rode through, like you said oil from asphalt or something.

 

after engine work and tuning the bike gets up to speed pretty quickly and I’ve had it up to 130mph, at those speeds the apes and added wind drag on the front end would cause wobbling (even with solid riser bushings). The stiffer T style bars and fairing fixed that.
Maybe one day I’ll buy a third bike and commit to another chopper/bobber.

 

I think it looks great 👍. For the record big Al’s comments is the way he rolls. His, not for me or not my style comments are always accompanied with an adda boy! 😂 he does it quite often on here. He got me acouple times and many others with the same formula. He is an honest guy. Nothing wrong with that. Definitely opinionated.

 

what does it mean "adda boy" ?
when I say it's not my style, it's just to be correct with you, because I respect everyones opinion and style of mods on their bikes, but I like to give my opinion in a constructive way, it's always interresting to debate about that...
no negative critics from me...

 

It means "hey, if you like it, go for it!" It's a metaphorical slap on the back of encouragement, not criticism.

There's lots of bikes on here that aren't to my tastes at all but it's still interesting to read about them. What people have done and why. And how it's turned out. And even when the overall effect doesn't appeal to me personally, there'll nearly always be some little detail that catches the eye and gives me ideas for my bike. When people have put a lot of time, effort and money into personalising their bikes, all that matters is that they are happy with the result. It would be very boring if we all liked the same things and all rode identical bikes. That's the great thing about Harleys. About the only place you see two exactly alike are on the showroom floor.

 

I was sure it was something like that, but I can't always understand these specific expressions
thanks for the answer...

 

what you just typed is what I meant in my post. You have a unique way with your comments. Me I just don’t comment when I don’t share someone’s view. But like gimlet said if everyone did that it would be boring. In other words I said the way you comment is not my style but I said! your honest about it, hence the atta boy with the honestly comment. you taught me some thing. No disrespect intended.