Hi everyone, this is my first post to the forum. I recently got my first bike, a 2006 America. I took it for my first long ride last weekend and can't wait to get back out again. Anyways, I went riding with a friend who has a HD. With them side by side i noticed that the heat shield on the exhaust on the HD was overlapped for the length of the pipe. However, on the America there is a 2"-3" gap at the beginning of the horizontal section of the exhaust. It seems to be the standard from what i can see on other Americas, I was just curious about what the reason for this is if any?
Thanks everyone
