Bandit's 2003 Road King

A while back, I spent a week one day in the garageof Bikernet headquarters with Bandit. Bandit was hot to putapehangers on his shiny new Road King Classic.Once I arrived and cooled down his "high-bar desire", I suggestedputting all the handlebar switch wires inside the bars where theywould be safe from his undue attentions in the future. After a quickassurance on my part that I wouldn't feel a thing, he okayed the idea.With the bars off of the bike and the switch wires laid out on thebench, he started whining about "all those wires". It was at thistime I whipped out the handy dandy "wire vise" and showed him how touse it (it only took three times) to solder the ...

I had a bad feeling about this mod. First, I don't like to pack anyone, any time. If you want a ride on my Panhead, carry a hand-towel and a bungie cord. I avoid giving a girl a ride home from the bar, even a babe with gigantic hooters. I would preferred to follow her home. I'm not the kind of rider to take a woman on a long run. I would rather have a variety of women in various towns and cities. Okay, I'm a bastard. Okay, so the pressure's on. Sin Wu want's to ride once in a while, and I want to get laid daily. Gotta give up something. I kept the stock Road King classic seat ...

We decided to take a run at an electrical article, since about 90 percent of problems and breakdowns come from the electrical component. Besides, it's riding season and we all need to check our electrical connections before we ride off into the sunset. This is especially true of bikes stored in moist or seaside climates. Besides, I'm riding the King to Laughlin and need to check it out. It's been awhile. Here's the lastest upgrade to the king: King Meets Zippers and D&D This article will cover some basic electrical checks, since being forced to charge your battery indicates deficiencies in your charging, or wiring system--or you left the goddamn lights on.This rambling will also cover all the aspects of ...

The King stripped for powder coating. The plan was to strip the bike of all the brackets, tabs and accessories we could get our hands on and have them black powder coated by Custom Powder Coating in Dallas a Bikernet Sponsor. We ordered additional accessories to enhance the clean black effect. First we ordered the Harley-Davidson black mag wheels and floating rotors with black centers. We pondered the front fender and trying to black out all the trim. During research we discovered, in the Winter P&A catalog, brackets to allow a Fatboy fender to be bolted in the King front end. The Fatboy fender is a cleaner unit, but it still has rivets and ribs. We opted for a solid ...

ROAD KING REPORT--Initially I had some questions regarding Road Kings. I wanted to know some about the frame geometry. I perfer a little trail over low speed, parking lot handling. I like to run fast and stable. Next I'm old school. I perfer a bike with minimun extras so I lean toward a carb model over the fuel injection, EFI models.I immediatly spoke to an expert, Paul from Charlotte, H-D:First as you always say "What year is the damn thing"??????? If it's a newer model why get rid of the EFI?? The new stuff works good. Harley has new sofware to tune the thing, just out from the dealer show. This will put a big hurt in the Powercomander II ...