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 RING GEAR REPLACEMENT MADE EASY   So you thought you couldn’t replace the ring gear on your original equipment clutch basket without purchasing the entire basket? Another industry first starter ring gear replacement kit for 2006-later dyna’s and 2007 and present big twins by Evolution Industries. Made in American quality. •Made from aircraft quality 8620 steel, ring gear are then hardened by carburization followed by an oil, as opposed to water, quench. • OEM uses mil...

CYCLE VISIONS ELIMINATOR LED TAIL LIGHT AND TURN SIGNALS KEEP YOU SAFE AND LOOK GOOD DOING IT! If you’re looking to clean up the look of the rear fender of your Harley-Davidson Dyna Glide, Cycle Visions “Eliminator” tail light slash turn signal unit is one of the best ways to get that job done, and still have legal rear fender lighting. Not only is the Cycle Visions Eliminator unit much brighter than the stock tail light, it also has a strobe effect (3-to-4 flashes) that are initiat...

PROTECT YOUR EYESIGHT AND THE SKIN ON YOUR MUG!   By Buck Lovell   photos by Lovell Photography Motorcycle riders are always talking about the wind in their face. That is part of the mystic of motorcycle riding to many of the uninformed, but sometimes even hardcore motorcycle riders may not want the wind in their face when they’re riding. Like say during heavily bug infested day. Or maybe on a long cross country trip. Your face can only take so much abuse before starti...

CORBIN SADDLES  SEE THE STYLE FROM A MILE  How many seats does Corbin Pacific manufacture for the Harley-Davidson Dyna-Glide? A bunch. Pictured here is the new Gunfighter saddle which looks might fine and is comfortable to boot! When I first saw the recently reintroduced Gunfighter, I thought to myself “that seat looks way to good to be comfortable.” I was wrong, way wrong. After installing the Gunfighter, I took a 150 mile ride through the Black Hills, and forgot I had ev...

DAKOTA DIGITAL PLUG AND PLAY  SPEEDO-TACH FOR DYNA GLIDE  By Buck Lovell        photos by Lovell Photography  Dakota Digital is a small, South Dakota based company that specializes in manufacturing and selling digital as well as analog gauge products for most of the big name automotive giants like Ford, Chevy, and Dodge. For us motorcycle riders, Dakota Digital produces a wide variety of digital L.E.D. gauges for most Harley-Davidson ...

     FUEL INJECTION TO CARBURETOR FUEL FITTING CONVERSION KITS FROM PINGEL       Pingel Enterprise now offers for sale kits that allow the use of Pingle high flow petcocks (gas valves) on Harley-Davidson gas tanks equipped with Fuel injection fittings. These kits replace the factory H-D Delphi and Magneti Marelli fuel injection fittings in the factory (stock) gas tank thereby allowing the use of a high quality/high flow Pingel Fuel ...

SIX DEGREE TRIPLE CLAMPS Paughco’s billet aluminum triple trees are designed and manufactured to minimize front-end flop and other poor handling problems associated with altered front-end geometry. Specifically, these six-degree triple clamps accommodate a number of Paughcon’s most popular chopper style frames with 45 degrees of neck rake. When used in conjunction with these "raked" frames and appropriate length extended front forks, the six-degree offset provides near stock “trail” num...

  CLARITY COVER BY RSD    By Buck Lovell     photos by Nick Cramer using his old camera……  If you want to watch what is going on inside your cam cover….and who wouldn’t want to do that after consuming something psychedelic, you might want to install the “Clarity” Cam cover from Roland Sands Designs. The cams are not visible, but the outer cam chain tensioner is...and the chain....so if your cable or dish feed quits, you can always go out ...

DAKOTA DIGITAL PLUG AND PLAY  SPEEDO-TACH FOR DYNA GLIDE  By Buck Lovell        photos by Lovell Photography Dakota Digital is a small, South Dakota based company that specializes in manufacturing and selling digital as well as analog gauge products for most of the big name automotive giants like Ford, Chevy, and Dodge. For us motorcycle riders, Dakota Digital produces a wide variety of digital L.E.D. gauges for most Harley-Davidson model ...

COMPRESSION RATIO SIMPLIFIED By Buck Lovell illustrations by Buck Lovell            www/lovellphoto.com If you’re riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle you must know it is powered by a twin cylinder, reciprocating piston, internal combustion motor. Reciprocating pistons means the pistons are going up and down, or back and forth, or from side to side depending upon motor configuration. Many factors determine the performance of the m...