r/sportster

Installed an SP Concepts pipe on my bike after having a pretty disastrous experience with a cheapo Ebay pipe. It's a bit fiddly, you need to mount the muffler first then install the headers into the muffler and turn them up into the heads to get everything to fit, but all in all they look great. The 2-1 is LOUD though, and the video actually does a good job of capturing the sound. I'm thinking about putting a Thunder Torque Insert in the end to help deepen the tone a bit and knock off a few dBs since there's no removeable baffle. They're absolutely gorgeous too. The welds are flawless and it's already starting to go gold. All in, I'm pleased, even if they're a little louder than I was looking for.

‘91 XLH 1200

Definitely helps with that old school cool feeling!

Last year I inherited this 2000 sportster 1200S from my dad, it was one of his most prized possessions. It only has 8100 miles and has largely sat for the last 5 or so years, I’ve just got around to getting all the maintenance up to snuff and started riding it myself.

Im looking forward to many miles of fun ahead.

I sold this bike 20 years ago, I regret it every day

Ran out of gas in hour 1. Rainy first day sunny second day.

In the wind w Brooke, aka the Blanco Branco

Hey y’all, just put the Sporty put back together. Figured I’d put this out there for anyone interested in repainting their tins themselves with decent quality spray paint. This job is definitely not perfect, but should be durable enough and this ain’t no show bike.. I used:

2x cans Spraymax 2k epoxy primer (didn’t use much of the second can)

6x cans Custom Kanz paint (3 cans gold, 3 cans blue)(honestly didn’t use all of each can. Was nervous to run the can dry while spraying)

5 cans Spraymax 2k clearcoat (yea, this stuff is expensive. 5th can I hardly tapped into and used the rest to spray a bumper repair on my truck)

Tape is from Lime Line and works really well.

Wet sanded, buffed, polished, waxed. Hopefully this helps someone who just wants an idea of how much material they’ll need to buy to paint a set of tins. Cheers!

Noise usually only happens after a longer ride and is idling. Both in neutral and in gear.

I recently took apart a 2005 1200 XLC I split the case and found what I was looking for a worn shift shaft. I was having a lot of problems shifting the bike into second gear. Upon taking the crank out I noticed small cranks along the bearing race I removed the retaining ring and the bearing fell apart. I have never seen anything like this before and was curious if anyone else has. I’m in Wichita so I’ll be taking the crank to truett and Osborn to get balanced.

I am STRUGGLING to get the jugs back over the pistons and I don’t know why. I reassembled the engine out of the frame two months ago and had no issues installing the jugs or the pistons and rings. Today trying to get jugs on the crankshaft moved and I broke my other piston skirt 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

Okay to run or buy new pistons?

Also any tips on getting these fucking jugs on is appreciated.
YES THERE IS OIL
YES I TRIED TAKING THE JUGS OFF WITH THE PISTON INSIDE

Put a fairing on my girl yesterday what ya think

Had a 30min ride, parked and 2h later as I was about to leave saw this. What does this look like? I recently got the front gasket fixed as it was leaking.

Out for a lil ride today.

Estes Park Colorado