Interesting that Harley would make custom pipes for their CVO line rather than pull them off the shelf from either the stock touring line (cheap) or from their Screamin Eagle line of pipes (more costly)...By keeping a line of restricted sales pipes just for the CVO line strikes me as not really cost effective management from a company that specializes (or should) in factory line manufacturing process...first rule of factory line manufacturing is keep your stock parts simple (small) and ensure the parts work with as much of a line-up as possible. Hmm...Harely would be better off cost-wise (research, engineering, testing, manufacturing, etc. ) outfitting their touring line of CVOs with either off-the-shelf non-CVO pipes or off-the-shelf Screamin Eagle pipes. I suppose if they make about ~8000 CVO touring bikes, maybe its not so cost prohibitive to build custom CVO pipes.
I'm not challenging your comments guys - I just wonder how the bean-counters @ HD would take that approach, especially if there are already off-the-shelf Screamin Eagle pipes available. The only thing that is custom to the CVO line and NOT available after-market is paint scheme and a few labels...everything else - including the 110ci is available off the shelf. Usually they would build custom bikes with off the shelf pre-exisitng stock (ie.e plain-Jane goods or custom goods like Screamin Eagle - even those are mass produced) and/or custom CVO unqiue parts that get folks droolling so they can roll it out to the aftermarket buyers (dropped saddle bags and audio systems for example) to recover all the costsd of investment. The restricted stuff is thier cheapest unrecoverable line (paint and labels). All else, they will try to recover investment by post-marketing using the CVO line as a marketing tool (ie.e dropped saddle bags, audio, etc.)
If they are pipes fit-for-CVO-only and not for sale as an aftermarket sale, then I take it that they never published performance sheets on the slip-ons.
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