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I believe having a dyno is a big timesaving convenience. The reading of my RT manual tells me that you can strap a computer onto the back of the bike and data log some runs (identical to making the various dyno pulls).

The graphs should give you a decent idea of what your fuel/air ratio is doing. Pushing it up or down in the RT is easy. Then another run on the street (sorry, I meant to say closed circuit track) can be logged to verify the results. That is how the tuner was setup to work, the instructions step you thru these procedures. You may need to try it a few time to gain a little experience.

The RT claims to have a limited range of adjustability to protect you from tuning it down (or up) to a truly dangerous level for the engine. If that's any consolation... That doesn't mean that over a long time of running too lean, you wont destroy your engine, because you can. It means that your next immediate run during testing won't endanger your engine

The RT certainly can provide you with the power and versatility to get your EFI dialed in very tightly. All of that should be possible without ever rolling your bike onto a dyno. Share your graphs on this forum and the V-Twin EFI forum and you will get some good advice from the people who have a depth of knowledge and experience tuning with the RT.

But you gotta make yourself comfortable that you can do this first. If you don't like your results, you can always flash back to your current baseline, and go find that far away dyno...

 

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R&R Cycle is were I plan on going here in Manchester, NH.

http://www.rrcycles.biz/

They have a great reputation for dyno tuning, although their rep has been made primarily on the Power Commander product which they sell.

I just got past my 1000 mile break in just in time for the riding weather to get cold. I'm currently running V-Mods, K&N Filter, still got the top on, and '04 RT with the SE map found on the CD. My plan was trailer-in during the winter, when they have more time then they know what to do with, and work with their tuner -- kinda run what I know about the RT with the years of experience that their dyno guy has tuning race and chopper engines.

My wife has MoCo connections and every once in a while I run into the factory area rep during social events. I was thinking of phoning him to ask him which dealers in our area have top-notch RT tuners (stay tuned). Every dealer in my area has renovated or moved to a newly built enormous facility, but I never inquired about their capabilities because my timing for a Dyno was mid winter.

 

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NH Rt 107

That was a freak day... 72 degrees, bright sunshine. You were on the best stretch of NH 107: between Rt 4 and Rt 28 (where you turned right to go to Alton Bay). That section rolls thru some big hills with sharp curves in every mile.

The next part that you missed continues rolling over big hills. There are many more vista views, the road stretches out much longer without crossing other roads or towns, and the curves are less twisty. We always make a point of either returning from or going to Laconia on 107.

You got a chance to experience first-hand that New Hampshire is the state with the highest per capita motorcycle ownership in the nation. Did you stop in to Merideth HD (just north Weir's Beach, Laconia)? My wife hung out there that afternoon, said that the parking lot looked like a giant bikers festival.

Tomorrows forecast looks more like December. My wife is however optimistic that we will get another day of warm weather to ride in before the winter blows in.

Keep in-touch (my email appears below), it would be great to connect with a V-Rod or two. I'm typically the only one. There are thousands of miles of well maintained yellow strippers up here and the regular residents of this state are used to sharing the roads with thousands of bikers.

I'll post the results of "known good" HD RT locations as soon as I get a chance to meet up with the rep.