New member here.....quick question!!!!

mattgus5

Just wanted to say hello to you all. Just bought my first bike recently, its a 2010 Iron & I'm kinda just getting used to it. I dont have much to compare it to,but so far, it seems nice. I changed the pipes to the VH short shots and did the stage 1 kit with the screaming eagle air filter. I'm taking the heat shields off the pipes tomorrow and wrapping them with some DEI (?) exhaust wraps. Anyways...I just installed the new solo spring seat from Harley, does anyone else have this? If so how do you like it so far? Recent surgery is keeping me off the bike for at least 3 weeks. Throw in a pic of your bike & the seat if you have any....So....anyways....looking foreward to checking this forum out...thx

NEWHD74FAN

Welcome Mattgus5 to the HDTalking forum. There will be other that will be able to answer your question...but in the meantime you may want to look in the Sportster section on the home page or look at the tabs near the top of this page either Self Help Tips for specific subjects you may have questions about or the Search using keywords like Sportster, Iron or Nightster; Enjoy the ride!

BTW one of our resident experts Hobbit 'cross the pond in merry ol' England has his bike with wrapped pipes and tell you the pros and cons...

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Hobbit

hi welcome to the forum, the iron is a great little bike, i do not have the solo sprung seat but can imagine it will look great on that bike.
here is a word of warning - save your money on the exhaust wrap and do not do it, it looks great and is awesome on a full custom but if you intend to use it as i do as daily transport, it will cause you a lot of issues down the line, with cracked and accelrated wear on the pipe, it plastises the metal and rots them from the inside out, how do i know i did this and the pipes did not even last 1 year, i struggled to get Vance and hines to warranty them as they stated that wrapping them voided the warranty, i asked them to show me were in the warranty/instructions it said do not wrap the exhaust, they replaced them after 3 wks of arguing, and my wrapping was over the shield on the back side the metal was laminating (pealling apart), from this

to this in one year

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mattgus5

Hey...thanks for the info on that. This is the first forum I have ever posted on, but have been reading them for some time now. Now...i'm not sure what you mean...I dont use the bike as a daily driver. So far I have just been banging around on it when the weather is nice and I feel like getting away for a bit. Does it make a difference if its a daily driver (as in your case)?

Hobbit

nope not really, condensation and excessive exhaust heat that a road bike does not need are the cause for the exhasut failure, and if its left standing it may happen faster but it will happen

condesation - forms on the inside of the pipe and cause's it to rot inside out

excessive heat - causes the metal to become very soft deforming its shape and eventually causing it to hole or in my case snap.

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DZRyder

Welcome,

Great info on the pipe wrapping

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hjacobson1

Welcome to the forum.

I think Hobbit got more life out of his warped pipes because the bike is used daily. Less frequent use will allow the moisture that forms to stay sandwiched between the pipe and the wrap causing a more rapid failure.

We use the wrap for for our race bikes in an effort to keep the exhaust gas hot thereby increasing the velocity of the exhaust gas. This use of the wrap results in header pipes getting replaced on a yearly basis.

Ride safe and enjoy your Lron.

Jake