DAILY DYNA

The Untold Story Of Our Test Bed 2015 Dyna Lowrider

Every 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 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.

We swapped a few pairs of bars and risers as well but have ended up with a pair of 12-inch chrome Burly Brand Jail bars and a set of grips from The Speed Merchant for the longest amount of time. Seats have been another item we have changed more than a few times for single rider as well as two-up testing purposes. Harley-Davidson, Le Pera, Lucky Dave’s, Mustang, Revere, Saddlemen, Drag Specialties, and a few full-custom seats all have been in the mix.

One of the biggest improvements we did to this bike was the addition of a set of Hyper Pro rear piggyback shocks. Not well known in the US, these superbike shocks from Holland are the benchmark of performance suspension, especially when I packed the bike up and headed to Sturgis with it fully loaded and still found the Lowrider able to carve all of Utah’s twisty back roads. Once I returned from Sturgis I met up with Big Mike of BMC Motorcycles, and we upped the Daily Dyna’s game in the form of a BMC FXRT fairing, chin spoiler, and wall seat.

Jim at IMZZ has been instrumental in painting and installing a ton of parts on this bike and painted the BMC bodywork to match perfectly with the stock sheet metal using Colorite paint. Jim then installed a new cam plate and cams from Feuling and added some monster 15-inch front brake rotors from Arlen Ness along with a set of Brembo bagger calipers. We also hung on a set of IMZZ FXRP saddlebag brackets for a set of old police bags I had lying around. This bike has also had bags installed and tested from FXR Division, Conely’s, and it now wears a set of amazing reproduction FXDP Defender bags from Villain 2 Hero.

The bike currently has some other standout items hanging on it, such as Oberon adjustable levers from Hog Leverage, hand guards from Memphis Shades, iPhone handlebar mount from Rokform, mirrors from Joker Machine, a set of shocks from Pro Action, a Klock Werks Flare windshield, and a Step Up seat from Saddlemen.

This machine has just hit 25,000 miles and has been to Sturgis twice, on two Hot Bike Tours, across 24 states, and down to San Felipe, Mexico. How the bike sits now isn’t how it will stay. As you can see, this rolling test bed is in a constant state of change, and we usually swap out a part or two weekly. Version 2.0 of the Daily Dyna is coming. It will be covered in carbon fiber from our collega in Italy known as TCB Carbon Parts Co. The bodywork will also have some serious custom pinstriping by Buck Wild over all the woven non-ferrous goodness.

The Lowrider will also have new risers and bars from Forbidden Motorcycles/Fly Racing and will have a ton of anodized red parts from Rooke Customs and Flo Motorsports. And that is just the start. Who knows what else the future holds for the Daily Dyna? Not even I can guess that. HB