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My neighbor keeps ragging on me about fuel injection and mapping and all that stuff, says I need to get with the times. Walking out of the kitchen into the garage there it sits, stripped down for the carbs. Just a bike, clean and simple. Silhouetted against the outdoor sun. That's a darn purdy sight.



Here is something for your neighbor to think about.
I bought my Epco pipes for around $350. I spent half a Saturday morning installing the pipes and the jets that came with them, popped out the rubber bits in the airbox to get the inlet air flow to match and have been enjoying them since. Total cost around $350.
The OL just had to have one of those fancy fool injected Harleys. Since the FI had to be fooled with, I started looking into what was involved and decided that it would be best to get it done at the dealer to avoid freaking the waranty and paying $800 for the programming tool plus $150 each to download one map plus something like $1500/year to subscribe to the download site.
OK, the pipes she wanted were $265. Total cost to add a hi-flow intake system (required to get the amount of air needed to fit the map profile) and download one map and bolt the mess together, $875.

And, there are a lot more things that can go wrong on my carbs that I can fix on the side of the road than there are with fool injection.

Let's hope there's intelligent life somewhere in space 'cause it's buggar all down here. -- Monte Python