Remember the installation we performed on Jeremiah Soto’s Dyna. We actually used D&D components on three Bonneville bikes and set two records. We installed lots of D&D exhaust systems on Bikernet shop projects over the years.
Jeremiah’s Dyna was one of them about four years ago and he’s been riding the streets of Los Angeles and out to Vegas numerous times. About a year ago he noticed his muffler moving around, and then he started to lose rivets. His model of D&D muffler was carbon fiber incased and any looseness tore the shit out of the carbon fiber.
He tried to call the company for help, but they dodged him. He tried replacing rivets and adding more. That helped, but then he discovered the muffler clamp had cracked. He had it welded.
That lasted a few months and it started to loosen again. Again, he contacted the company. The service agent ducked any knowledge of big twin bikes. He was a dirt bike guy, but he still let a couple of items slip from time to time, like something about the baffles breaking.
In the meantime Jeremiah constantly complained about his rattling D&D carbon fiber muffler. The aluminum rivets were failing. He asked for a new muffler but the boss wouldn’t talk to him.
He tried one more time with D&D but the service guy dodged him, but offered to talk to the boss, but the boss never responded. The service guy admitted that the baffles were popping loose, which added to the muffler failures and dangers that it could fly apart while splitting lanes on a Los Angeles freeway.
After Jeremiah returned from chasing his girlfriend he inspected the tacks and fitment.
Kevin TIG welded the tube in place and re-welded the clamp, and off Jeremiah went to the store to buy VHS heat paint.
He gave it a couple of coats and backed it in his Bikernet Penthouse apartment oven over night. The next day he cleaned the slightly rusty pipe and the inside of the muffler. It slipped right into place and off he rode to chase his girlfriend once more.
