Harley 120R Verse Rocket X

Steven Hyde said:

I have an X with a ramair filter and tune from tuneecu. I've hit 130 multiple times and still pulling, just run out of road. I've made around 50 passes at the drag strip and the best time I could muster was 12.07 at 111mph. I also weigh around 350lbs so I'm pretty happy with that. I have 2 not very good videos on youtube. One vs gsxr600 and one vs zrx1200. Next mod will hopefully be carpenter exhaust and pc5. I'm hoping to break into the 11s next month when I go back.

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cr0ft said:

They're going to have to go to water cooling rather soon if they want to keep selling bikes. Air cooled bikes are very difficult to make efficient enough to pass stringent emission testing. And that's also why they have only 50-ish horsepower or something, can't make high power engines that pass testing with air cooling only (or at least it's very difficult, from what I gather.)

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1goindiesel said:

None of my riding friends have ridden my TR3t yet, I offer but so far no takers, I think they look at how massive it looks from the seat and just shy away from it. The only taker so far is my son who helped load the tune into it. He came back all grin, said it would absolutely cook his 103"- built Road King and I was like "YuThink?" I love this thing, its like bringing a bat to a ping pong game. The 120R is a nice brag I suppose for peeps that dont know better. My only problem with it is my main problem with all things Harley.... and that is C O S T... Will always have harleys cuz I just dig em but not for drag racing LOL. Cool of you to allow someone to ride yours. My motto; (if they can ride and I know/like them) " Sure go ahead,its insured, just dont hurt yourself"

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Steel said:

If you get the Carpenter pipe, I'd recommend sending them your ECU to flash. I wound up with more power doing that, than with the PCV.

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Zonechamp said:

I think what happens with the Harley riders is that they ride with Harley riders. In my area 80% of the bikes are Harley. The guy's I ride with all have Harley's. So in their mindset, if they increase their bike's power, they will be faster than everyone else they ride with. Other bikes don't exist because all they know is Harley. So once they are trapped in that narrow minded thinking, an average Harley rider doesn't even know a Rocket exists let alone can smoke them at will. I run across it all the time. I ride middle to end of the pack every time, I never show off or pass them. When I was asked about this all I said was "I know I'm the big dog, no need to prove it." Not one of my buddies has ever raced me. On the flip side there seems to be no end of ****ty old Camero's and Mustangs to humiliate.

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Steven Hyde said:

Well when I called and talked to them about the pipe they never said anything about the factory ecu, they only mentioned the pcv. I will make sure I talk to them about it before I purchase the exhaust, thank you for the tip!

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