I honestly don't believe it's an exaggeration to say that he's the best in the country.
I'll second that! In fact, yesterday I put the V in a ride-in bike show (won 1st American Cruiser). It was a fund-raiser event and had HFD1Motorsports Factory Pro Tuning. The custom mapped two other Vrods with one of those being a SE. They asked if I'd be interested and putting my bike up for an analysis. I agreed since there was no charge. He asked for my list of my mods and I told him Thunderheader with PowerCommander and custom map. His wife said that custom maps were his specialty. The Operator popped up and said, "Well, we're about to see how good a map it is. We'll see how good he is with this Thunderheader." I said, "Oh, 'the dip?' Yeah, it took him a while to get the dip out of it, but we'll see."
In the meantime, I went to collect the money for winning and came back. When I came back, they were backing the bike off the ramp. They asked if I would allow them to print my graph with TK's vrod on it as a comparison. I asked, "Was the map ok?" He shook his head and said, "Oh yea, it's good." Then he told TK something like, "She's got something else in there. It's more than just a Power Commander."
I think he tried to find something wrong with the map. He tried to get it to pop and crackle and to drop HP drastically. Golden took a LOT of time getting it just right. You could tell an immediate difference at low rpm. My bike had more HP and torq than the other SE Vrod after he did the custom map for the owner!!