Pipes for an 06 Ultra

I like my Wide Pig Pipes but I don’t know how that will affect things on your 06. do all 06s have cat. converters?

I just installed V&H Oval slip ons on my '04 Road King along with a Power Commander. I like the sound and the look. Great price at Direct Parts. I am not sure about the 06 bikes. Call the tech number here for info. They are great.

Marc,

The '06 will take any 95 and later exhaust system. So. you can use thje ovals like you had or a true dual Rinehart or 2-1 etc.

Tuning is still the same, PCIII USB or SERT to give full tuning.

This is the big HOWEVER comma. Arlen Ness has determined that the Big Sucker backing plate will not fit the '06 EFI throttle bodies. The throttle body has changes that do not allow the backing plate to sit flush. So, you will need the SE a/c or wait until the Ness foks get a new casting.

Congrats on the new Ultra!

Eh? wazzat? The ovals are alright got a bit of a bark to 'em, The Rineharts on CD's bike sounded quite good. What pushed you to get the new Ultra Marc?..there some neat stuff on the new ones though anyway, congrats

No, CV is fine just the EFI models have something different about the throttle body.

Very timely post. just put a deposit on an 06 ultra myself (don't really want to part with the deuce, but need something I can ride in the colder months). Leaning towards the Rineharts, haven't heard anything to suggest otherwise. American Iron has a series upgrading an 02 Ultra and they used Rineharts/ pc and a big sucker (not going to work in this case). Went from 58 to 75 HP, properly setup on a dyno.


Gary

Sure was a colder St. Vibes..eh Marc? Woke Saturday morning to what seemed like a fogged in coastline (up in Virginia City anyway). I rather enjoyed the cooler weather as it's a break from Las Vegas (still about 90º ave here). Though..Sunday morning I had ice on the seat of my FJR. Thank God I brought my First Gear overpants and put my liner in my touring jacket. With the heated grips on the FJR..I was quite comfy pulling out at 6:45am to arrive in Las Vegas by 2pm. I only pulled off the liner and fleece shirt I was wearing during the last leg into LV near Beatty.

St. Vibes seemed to have less motorcyclists this year than past..yet I heard it was going to be bigger. I know the number of vendors were down as last year they went all the way down S.Virginia St south of the Truckee River. Gets to the point that the 3 hours I spent in Reno was enough. I'll take the atmosphere in Virginia City the rest of the weekend. DaleRK and his wife Nikki made it up for Friday and Saturday nights. He said he'd try again to make the Bike Talk Ride next year.

Were I to chose a true dual look with performance in mind I would go with the Thunderheader falsee or the D&D with Ghost Pipe. Either are great performing 2-1 systems.

If I wanted true duals with the ability to change mufflers go with the V&H.
If you want good, solid performance go with the Rineharts or the Hooker true dual system.
JMHO, YMMV

If Pat is going to be spending time on the back of the bike I think the Rineharts that Dave had on the RK were pleasant sounding and she probably wouldn't mind them. I don't know if you're going to be pulling a trailer with the Ultra or whether you are going to 95 the bike or not. I'd like to see a Dyno shootout with pipes with a basically stock low compression 88 and 95 inch motor. I'd be looking at 2500-4000 as the engine speed that is important to me and which pipe performs best there. My bike doesn't have much on the top end but it rides pretty good in the day to day stuff..especially two up pulling the trailer. I'd like to look at a different pipe but it has to be very quiet. Too bad about the clubbers at SV. The HA seem to be more relaxed in public..they've got nothing to prove..some of the others lack the PR awareness that the big players have. I hope the guy that got caught under the E-G is ok..that's a lot of bike to fall on you. It's cooling off here in a hurry so it's just about time to park the bikes. I wouldn't mind heading out in the spring for a ride to Spokane or Sandpoint to meet up with you and Pat..anyway, enjoy that new bike!!

Wow..didn't see any gang activity in Virginia City Marc. Though the cop presence was at least double or more from past years. Never saw so many motorycycle cops up there in my life. The Story County Sheriff retired this past year, so he wasn't trotting around on his horse like he's done the past several years.

My cell phone wasn't ringing in VC for some reason..weak analog signal I guess. Too bad I couldn't ride back down to Reno with you Friday as I didn't go down until about 1pm. It was definitely a little windy out. We filled up coming back up Friday near the base to the Mt. Rose Hwy into N.Shore Tahoe and I nixed going up to look at the lake because of the heavy clouds at the top and the wind. As it was..I caught a gap in the road back up to VC and had a nicely paced twisty ride up the mountain to VC. Most bikes are coming down at that point and you have to watch for them crossing into your path.

Bassini two into one

I had a look at this pipe in the store..pictures anyway. It's a nice looking pipe from what I can tell..how does it work compared to the Pro Pipe/ T-Header and how loud is it..gotta hear the tunes you know.