not all tuners 'beat the hell out of your bike' on the dyno. just because you had one that did, does not make them all that way. a dyno is a tool. like any other tool, used in the wrong hands, can have disastrous results. used in the right hands, you can get a tune that will outshine your auto tune.
The new SMART TUNE option on the race tuner is not an AUTO TUNE by a long shot. It tunes your bike but you must make the changes the program reccomends MANUALLY!!!!! Nothing AUTO about it. I would have never even thought about buying a race tuner, but a very good friend who is also a MASTER of TECHNOLOGY for HD talked me into it. He then talked me into the smart tune after the chitty dyno tune the dealer gave me. Believe me it works.