This problem of the heat burning your calf muscle. That's the catalyst converter the motor company placed in the front header pipe. Its best to eliminate it. However, if your in an area that does emission testing on your motorcycle. You will not want to modify the stock pipe. But get new pipes to replace the stock ones. This way when inspection comes around. You can stick the stock pipes back on.
Since the Tri-glide has a tour-pac mounted on it. There will always be a constant back draft when moving. (air moves forward) The reason I bring this to one's attention is,... the heat coming off your engine while moving. Contacts the trikes body and gets sent upwards. The back draft brings that heat forward. Its a hot circle that continues on both sides of a tri-glide. In addition to the constant heat that keeps flowing back at the rider and passenger from the engine.
For the riders that experience the heat while setting in traffic. I sell V-Twin Heat Deflectors. Though the motor company has their own plastic heat shields. Ours are much better for a few reasons. HD's version of our product is made of plastic and their shields are of equal size on each side. The problem with theirs is, since being the same size. They cause what I call a bowl effect. They collect and hold a constant heat under your seat. They also magnify the heat that contacts the passengers right ankle area. My product greatly reduces what contacts the passengers ankle area and it's physical shape, when moving causes more circulation of air movement towards the rear cylinder. Our product is made of aluminum and has a vinyl surface that matches the grain of the seat. Making our deflectors look as an extension of your saddle. Ours blends in with the motorcycle or trikes looks and doesn't stand out as addition. We have been making our heat deflectors since August 2002. Way before anyone. Which enables us to have a superior product over anybody's version. I had set up a poll on another site that allowed riders that have been using our product to select just how long they have had our product installed. I've customers that had our product on their bikes since we first started selling them and are still using them to this day and they still look as if they had just installed them. We build ours to last. A lot of riders, instead of purchasing our heat deflectors or deflectors from other sources. Have chosen the more expensive route at making their bikes run richer by changing their pipes, their cams and so forth, anything to make the bike's engine run cooler and they have had success at reducing the engine's temperature. But no matter what you add to enrichen your scoot's engine. You will never get the rear cylinder of your engine to operate under 120 degrees. The reason I bring this temperature to your attention is. 120 degrees is the temperature that 2nd degree burns start at. Most riders can endure the exposure of an engines heat when its 190 or 212 or even 220. New riders, especially the ones that graduated from a car to a motorcycle can't handle the heat. However no matter what type of rider you are. When the heat of that rear cylinder reaches 120 degrees. From that point on. You are cooking your inner thighs. That's why our logo states "No more Fried Thighs!"
There's riders in this forum that can vouch for the results and the quality/craftsmanship of our heat deflectors. If you have any questions. Please feel free to contact me or just ask away.
Here's a couple pictures for your viewing.
More can be viewed at RJS Originals
Since the Tri-glide has a tour-pac mounted on it. There will always be a constant back draft when moving. (air moves forward) The reason I bring this to one's attention is,... the heat coming off your engine while moving. Contacts the trikes body and gets sent upwards. The back draft brings that heat forward. Its a hot circle that continues on both sides of a tri-glide. In addition to the constant heat that keeps flowing back at the rider and passenger from the engine.
For the riders that experience the heat while setting in traffic. I sell V-Twin Heat Deflectors. Though the motor company has their own plastic heat shields. Ours are much better for a few reasons. HD's version of our product is made of plastic and their shields are of equal size on each side. The problem with theirs is, since being the same size. They cause what I call a bowl effect. They collect and hold a constant heat under your seat. They also magnify the heat that contacts the passengers right ankle area. My product greatly reduces what contacts the passengers ankle area and it's physical shape, when moving causes more circulation of air movement towards the rear cylinder. Our product is made of aluminum and has a vinyl surface that matches the grain of the seat. Making our deflectors look as an extension of your saddle. Ours blends in with the motorcycle or trikes looks and doesn't stand out as addition. We have been making our heat deflectors since August 2002. Way before anyone. Which enables us to have a superior product over anybody's version. I had set up a poll on another site that allowed riders that have been using our product to select just how long they have had our product installed. I've customers that had our product on their bikes since we first started selling them and are still using them to this day and they still look as if they had just installed them. We build ours to last. A lot of riders, instead of purchasing our heat deflectors or deflectors from other sources. Have chosen the more expensive route at making their bikes run richer by changing their pipes, their cams and so forth, anything to make the bike's engine run cooler and they have had success at reducing the engine's temperature. But no matter what you add to enrichen your scoot's engine. You will never get the rear cylinder of your engine to operate under 120 degrees. The reason I bring this temperature to your attention is. 120 degrees is the temperature that 2nd degree burns start at. Most riders can endure the exposure of an engines heat when its 190 or 212 or even 220. New riders, especially the ones that graduated from a car to a motorcycle can't handle the heat. However no matter what type of rider you are. When the heat of that rear cylinder reaches 120 degrees. From that point on. You are cooking your inner thighs. That's why our logo states "No more Fried Thighs!"
There's riders in this forum that can vouch for the results and the quality/craftsmanship of our heat deflectors. If you have any questions. Please feel free to contact me or just ask away.
Here's a couple pictures for your viewing.
More can be viewed at RJS Originals
