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WORDS AND PHOTOS: JEFF G. HOLT
SKILL LEVEL // ADVANCED
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INSTALLING DAKOTA DIGITAL BAGGER GAUGES THE HARD WAY
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e love using Dakota Digital gauges due to their ease of installation and good looks. But in the realm of custom bikes, sometimes things don’t always go so smoothly. Take for instance our project performance Road Glide we have dubbed the Performer. After installing the big-buck and badass Big Bear Performance Öhlins front end, we have gone absolutely haywire with upgrades—so many modifications and upgrades, in fact, that the level of component incompatibility hit a critical mass.
The combination of Hard Case Performance risers, Lucky Daves Riser Bars, and Kraus Motor Co. gauge mount worked pretty well together on our Road Glide. But the addition of the Dakota Digital gauges proved to be a bit of a challenge. Again, these gauges are a snap to install, but that is on the OEM bar mount. By using an aftermarket setup like we did, we ran into all sorts of issues common with doing things that have been done before. With that said, we had to call in our buddy Jimmy Todd at Quaid Harley-Davidson in Loma Linda, California, to make all of the components work together. Here’s how he did it.
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2 p With the gauges removed you can access the four bolts that hold on the p As you can see, the Dakota Digital Road Glide setup is well made, and believe us when
we say it is easy to install under normal circumstances.
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