If yours does not already have compression releases, all 03's were supposed to be tapped for them. I don't have them. I feel your pain. I had over 30 bikes in the last 40 years and many of them were much hotter than BD. This is the first bike that I thought about reporting stolen and dumping in the nearest lake. Don't buy that "hotrod bike" shit. 150+ hp is a hotrod bike. Metrics are running 200 hp and they ain't pushing them fuckers. To begin with, the S&S or TP motor will not let you down. The baker transmission will not let you down. The fucking EHC will. If you don't want to keep pushing that bad boy for the rest of the time you own it, rewire, rewire, rewire. 99.9% of all posts here trace back to the EHC. It's all fun and games when you're under warranty but after that runs out you're gonna pay. EHC is the weak point on the bike, always has been and aways will be. Had mine rewired so the first notch on the key is starter only then after it starts I turn it one more notch for lights. Good Big Boar battery and tender and have had no trouble since rewire 3 years ago. You have a right to be pissed and if someone thinks you don't, let them push your bike back from the bar. These are expensive bikes and BD has done themselves a disservice by not fixing the electrics 10 years ago when they first knew EHC's were a weak link. Good luck on the fix.
