what 11 year old boy wouldn't want to ride! let my son sit on Evel's Heritage after I bought it, that was a mistake

 

Thanks for the shared stories guys, this is why I love 2 wheels! Here is a pic of his bike, he is very excited, I told him I will have a set of black pipes on it by the end of next week, lol, just not sure what kind, I asked in the sportster forum but didnt get a lot of feedback. I dont know much about these evo 883's and what kind of pipes work best on them. We will figure it out though.

 

My nephew put these on his bike. He likes them. Not sure what they are called.

 

i love the way the new sporties look when they're set up like flat track bikes. the S&S Hooligan Exhaust puts out good numbers and sounds great if you guys like to ring the thing out and want that scrambler/flat track look. S&S does a heat shields for these pipes too.




my favorite sounding pipes and i think the best looking pipes going for Sporties though are without a doubt the LSR 2-1 system by RB Racing. Get ready to fall down a wormhole of either genius or insanity of you check out their website- be prepared to spend a lot of money and wait a long time for the pipes- but by all accounts you'll get pipes that sound like nothing else, look awesome and make real power. i know some really good folks who refuse to deal with RB Racing- because they are opinionated, don't suffer fools gladly, and aren't really into making a commodity. they make performance bike parts and they have to sell them in order to be able to make them- but you get the feeling that they're far more interested in building the highest performance pipe they can than providing excellent "customer service" or making their customers feel special and smart. That's worth it though because the pipes are awesome.




i think like with our M8s there are a lot of junk pipes out there. most manufacturers build pipes based on appearance and sound rather than performance and let's face it- the Motor Company designed a pretty complicated total system with emissions issues, scavenging requirements, desired noise etc. etc. and the stock exhaust on most of our bikes is pretty damn good- especially if you're not going really crazy with building up the engine.




anyway- good luck with the bike. were it me- and i was a young kid who just got a new 883- i'd focus on learning to ride. sign up for something like california super bike school- or a maybe a flat track or super motor class!




my first harley was a first year 48. i loved that bike and didn't ever do a thing to it. i eventually gave it to my dad so he could use in trade towards his Yamaha cruiser that he still has. Had I kept it- I'd have addressed the suspension first and put longer travel adjustable shocks on it.

 

I started out on a 2003 Sportster and now on a SGS. Nothing wrong with sportsters.

 

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