Exhausts Swept up Pipes for Sportsters

[Brigg]

Originally Posted by DickDastardly

"Don Burton the XL forum"
The problem with Drag/straight pipes is that they are not tunable for a strong low and midrange. They are called drag pipes for a reason; they have a very narrow and peaky powerband and really aren't suitable for a good running street bike. Yes, they can be made to run a little better with cones or whatever but not as good as a well tuned exhaust.

Many of the aftermarket pipes (by no means all) are not designed or tuned for max performance, rather huge compromises are made in the name of style. You can read between the lines to get what I'm saying."

T.I.C. Don't take my word for it buy them put them on, I'm sure your Sportster will run really well, because all peformance bikes today have this style of exhaust on

I would never had thought of that, I would had assumed they were made 'fit for purpose'. I will see if I can get a tech spec, and if you dont mind, cast your eye over it and let me know what you think... ? Yep style does come into it... if I could find upturned fishtails I would definately heve them...

[Squiz]

Originally Posted by kriss

each to their own guys , if we all went for the same thing it really would be a boring world and in the end thats why we have choice.

True, but I think we all want the bike to run well, don't we? Ignore Dastardly's advice at your peril!

[kriss]

Originally Posted by Squiz

True, but I think we all want the bike to run well, don't we? Ignore Dastardly's advice at your peril!

do, and donts wills and wonts thats life and none of us repeat none of us knows everything and thats how we learn by doing it the right way or the wrong. how many doubters have these fitted or have fited ? i wonder

[DickDastardly]

Originally Posted by Brigg

I would never had thought of that, I would had assumed they were made 'fit for purpose'. I will see if I can get a tech spec, and if you dont mind, cast your eye over it and let me know what you think... ? Yep style does come into it... if I could find upturned fishtails I would definately heve them...

There you go, got your 'Buckhorns' and your new 'zorsts'

Jus' pullin' yer leg, mate

You do what you want, it's your bike

[Limey_Dave]

To be fair,they don't claim them to be performance items,just that they'll turn heads.They prob will and most will have blue lights on.
For performance I'd have said the first problem is one is so much longer than the other.Seems to me the norm with V twins is to put an extra bend in the back pipe to give more length or stagger the ends.

[Brigg]

Originally Posted by DickDastardly

There you go, got your 'Buckhorns' and your new 'zorsts'

Jus' pullin' yer leg, mate

You do what you want, it's your bike

LMAO....!!!! (just)....!!

[kiwidave]

if you really like the look, and I can see why, then you should be able to drill and fit some baffles into them if they are drag pipes, which they probably are. Not hard to find baffles.....

[Bilbo]

I feel the need to stick up for drag pipes a bit here.

I have 2" Khromewerks drags on my Sporty, baffles in when I bought it and now baffles out.

The performance is not lacking in the mid range in any way, although I appreciate it is not a tuned system and will not give any mid range advantage. The other point is that it performs slightly better and revs freer with the baffles out.

It certainly performs better than the standard strangler silencers. I love the upswept pipes and thought about getting the Zantee upswepts with fishtails but they don't make them for the XL.

I would say go for it. They look great and your performance won't suffer.

[Bilbo]

Seeger are quoting $200 delivery to UK for a set of these!