Destination: Rod's Performance. Rod does a lot of work for people in the Birmingham area...pretty good reputation, with fair prices. He does tunes, and anything from normal servicing to fairly wild motor builds. He had a beautiful Gray 2001 SERG on the lift replacing a clutch when I was there.
While I was there, I had him put my bike up on the Dyno and check out my TTS map. He fooled with it a bit, and did what ended up (after some folks here helped me figure out what was happening) making an open loop map. The bike ran good and was developing typical numbers for a Stage I Fullsac mod. Since the map was so good already (Steve's canned map), there wasn't much to do. He only charged me for a basic pull on the Dyno, so no big deal...I just have a richer map now if I ever want to drag race, which will never happen. After learning a bit more about how the TTS works, by reading and other's here jumping in, I decided I did not want the bike running "old school" open loop, so emailed Steve and got the latest and greatest MT8 map for our bikes, loaded it up and took it for a test run. Bike runs perfect, and has a bit more power (seat of the pants) than the MT7 file I was running earlier. I must be lucky, and have one of those bikes that the canned map works just fine in. I'm not going to mess with it again, as I'm not into chasing 2 more HP or TQ for a $250 tune.
My intention was to ride about 150 additional miles after leaving Rod's...however, it seems when the HD shop replaced my rear brake switch, they snipped one of the wire ties I had holding the Legend Air wiring/tubing running up the right side of the bike frame, allowing the air tube to get a little bit too close to the header collector. It softened up during the Dyno pull and blew out. No spare tubing on board, so I got to ride home with the shocks all the way down. While the shocks still function (tire will not rub on fender), the bike rides like an old hardtail, so the rest of the day's ride was out of the question. Stopped by the HD dealer on the way home and got a bag of tubing (Legends is the same tubing as stock) about 20' long. Replaced it after getting home and made sure this would not happen again, by making up a "kit" to keep on the bike so that I can either replace any line that fails, or seperate the shocks from the compressor/bleed off by plugging the line and airing the shocks up with a gas station air chuck via the original shock valve located behind the left rear saddlebag. I had left everthing plumbed up to that to begin with, but had not made up a plug for one side of the tee. That won't ever happen again.