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WORDS AND PHOTOS: JEFF G. HOLT
DAILY DYNA THE UNTOLD STORY OF OUR TEST BED 2015 DYNA LOWRIDER
Humble stock beginnings.
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very few years I buy a new bike and use it to test a bunch of these new parts and accessories you see in the magazine and online. This time I went to Huntington Beach Harley-Davidson in Southern California and purchased a 2015 Harley-Davidson Dyna Lowrider from my pal Jason Hampton. I rode the bike in its stock form directly from the dealership to my house and parked it. Due to the H-D Lowrider’s horrible stock
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bars and risers, the bike sat for a few weeks until I received a set of Conely’s risers, bars, and a T-Sport fairing. My buddy Scotty Speedmetal and his son Luke swapped out the bars and fairing and added a set of fork adjusters and a few other bolt-on dress-up parts. We also installed a slip-on muffler from Firebrand and then another one from Sawicki Speed bundled up in DEI exhaust wrap. Not finding much fun with the stock
head pipes, we bolted on a free-flowing 2-into-1 from Thrashin Supply, which gave the bike a bit of power coupled with a K&N Aircharger and an FP3 tuner from Vance & Hines. Then we went nuts testing just about every 2-into-1 pipe made—Fab 28 Industries, Stealth, TBR, Vance & Hines, Magnaflow, Bassani, and the list goes on. The pipe we have had on it the longest has been the Royal-T Racing stainless, which has a really great sound and tons of performance.
