first season I had my 04 Speedmaster Wendy and I rode 2 up all the time since she didn't have her America yet. Loved it so much bought her America for the following season. We did both day long trips and week long trips with luggage. We are not light I go over 200lbs and she isn't light. We didn't carry too much luggage but enough for a week in the hotel room. We also rode from here in north east PA to Laconia NH with no issues and plenty of power and reliability. Still no breakage with my 04 SM or her 04 America. The Laconia trip was from here to N Vermont in the driving rain and never missed a beat, we were with my friend on his America too and he was 2 up and same thing no issues.
question 3 see above and the return trip home was straight through at 80 to 90 MPH with bursts of well over 100 MPH 2 up. Didn't leave me with any ill feelings and runs very smooth.
Seat swap is 2 bolts and EZ Brackets are the way to go for luggage, twist of a key and they lift right off.
Pipes , filters, and jetting are all a piece of cake. I like my gutted stock pipes but there are plenty of made for the bike options as well as 1 3/4" HD intended stuff that will work.
They are very easy to work on and all of the info in this thread is searchable and would be found if you sifted through all the resutlts.
