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May 20th, 2006, 04:52 PM
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#1 | | Newbie
Join Date: May 2006 Location: La Porte
Posts: 3 Model: Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Interests: Outdoors Occupation: TransGlobal USA Inc. / Vice President
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I have a 2006 Softail 1450 and would like to lower the idle speed... how do I do this?  | 
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May 20th, 2006, 05:23 PM
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#2 | | Administrator Has posted 500+
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Tucson AZ
Posts: 1,528 Interests: Fishing, wood working, flipping off Fred Fox Occupation: Founder of Bike Talk....retired and lovin' it
| EFI bikes idle speed is electronically controlled for two very good reasons
First, to maintain voltage for the system
Second, the new oiling system needs to have a faster idle to maintain pressure. | 
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Aug 13th, 2007, 07:19 AM
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#3 | | Newbie
Join Date: May 2006 Location: La Porte
Posts: 3 Model: Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Interests: Outdoors Occupation: TransGlobal USA Inc. / Vice President
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I guess no Loping for me! | |
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Aug 13th, 2007, 07:36 AM
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#4 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Alvin TX
Posts: 1,442 Model: 03 E Glide X cop bike Interests: My family Old Dodge truck's Riding My Glide Occupation: Retired truck Driver
| mid night rider, Cd said it all , if you have EFI you need to be in the 950 to 1000 range on your idel for the reason's CD gave | |
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Aug 13th, 2007, 07:47 AM
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#5 | | Newbie
Join Date: May 2006 Location: La Porte
Posts: 3 Model: Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Interests: Outdoors Occupation: TransGlobal USA Inc. / Vice President
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Thanks Again. | |
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Aug 13th, 2007, 01:28 PM
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#6 | | Has posted 500+
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| Put on louder pipes then it won't matter, loud pipes fix everything  | |
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Aug 14th, 2007, 09:06 AM
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#7 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: middleburg, pa
Posts: 656 Model: 06 FLST hertiage, stage 1 1450 pc111 Interests: hunting,wood working Occupation: medical asst. tech/DPW
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could not agree more. loud pipes are sometimes the only thing that will fix all those little whinning noises and ect. | |
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Aug 19th, 2007, 08:49 AM
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#8 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Central Valley, CA
Posts: 203 Model: 2005 RoadGlide, 1996 RoadKing, 2005 Delu Interests: Motorcycles, Grandkids Occupation: HD Service Tech
| The idle speed is something that only digital technician at the dealership can change. The proper speed is 975 to 1050 and as HRK says, not much you can do about it. But a little bit of info about the loud pipe thing, I read an article about the noise police in Denver and the City Council passed a law that only limits motorcycle exhaust to pipes that have an executive order sticker for compliance to EPA standards for any motorcycle manufactured after 1982. What this means is anything other than the stock pipes are strictly verbotten. I bet their police cruisers can't pass the muster on this on
this one. I know the two fleets we take care of don't run stock mufflers or if they are they've had the plugs knocked out. I guess I'll never get to ride my bike in Denver! I don't like obnoxious type loud, but face facts, bikes have to have other than stock exhaust just to make them run. | |
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