S&S Shadow Pipe

Our Project Speed King gets an S&S pipe upgrade …

- Doc

Before there was Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman there was The Shadow. Clad in black, The Shadow operated mainly after dark as a vigilante in the name of justice, and terrifying criminals into vulnerability. As The Shadow used to say during his two decade existence which began in 1930, “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” But his key power was to render himself invisible.

Which, by using the stage magicians’ trick of misdirection, S&S Cycle has essentially pulled off with their Shadow pipe. The Shadow is a dummy pipe which mounts to the left side of the bike to give the appearance of a two-into-two system and which fills in the cut out that the extended bag of today’s cruisers feature.

Now it has long been shown that a well-designed and engineered two-into-one system will outperform two-into-two units. Older readers may remember the popularity of two-into-one Thunderheader system that absolutely dominated performance back in the Evo days. But while they looked good on a naked bike, they created a total lop-sided look on a bagger. As does any single sided system.