Category: Geen categorie

My 2004 fuel-injected HD Heritage is all original, except for the tyres. I decided to get Michelin’s instead of the HD whitewall ones, to get better grip during the rainy days..

And- Next to the original saddle bags, I added an original Road King top case, also full leather.  Top case and saddle bags are easily detachable with original HD detach kits.  I added locks to all 3 cases.

The exhausts are also HD, but not as it came from the factory.  Due to noise regulations in Europe, I installed extra baffles, full-length in both pipes.

And- the original primary front sprocket has been changed to a bit larger one, so I can drive on the highway with less rev’s.

To get better front braking I exchanged the front brake disc for a larger one.

The lights all around are original HD LED.

Original toolbox was also an aftermarket add-on I installed.

I also exchanged the floorboards for a bit less wide ones, due to scraping the originals over the street now and then.  We have quite a lot of roundabouts in The Netherlands and the softail design in combination with my drive style caused unexpected contact between the floorboards and the concrete.  I did get the softail dampers (this 2004 version has 2 in parallel)  at the highest possible position so the rear swing is a lot stiffer and this gave some additional much needed height…

The bike now has 52.000 Km’s on it, and I wil be driving it a bit more the coming years.

Just received this from DHL,Aliexpress from Italy for around 300 Euro’s.

It will be used on my MiniMill as 4th axis and I will make some teethed parts with it.  At least, that is my goal!

I balanced my rims myself last time on my balancing machine.

The reason is, that I can’t find a company in the neighborhood where that is still done.

Almost all tire companies now only work with rims that have a standard central hole in them for tensioning the rim.

I bought a new tire machine a few years ago, and with it the appropriate tensioning plates for both my ID20 and my Traction Avant 11BN.

When balancing, I found that on both the Traction and the ID, the rims are not all round and certainly not flat.

With the Traction I had quite a few available rims, so I chose the best ones and put new Michelin originals around them.

For the DS I have to do this again and that is scheduled for the 2022 refurbishment.

I had The Traction rims powder coated in cream white, the same color as the original rim color.  Except the spare, as shown above…