Instant Audio | Dead Center Quick-Detach Fairing

04. The Sony head unit features an AM/FM receiver, auxiliary mini jack (red arrow), and USB port (yellow arrow) which allow you to power up and play songs from your personal MP3 player or thumb drive. The head unit is satellite and HD-radio-ready (additional equipment required), and offers CD/CD-R/CD-RW/WMA/AAC playback.

05. Here’s Disco’s Heritage Softail Classic ready for its new audio upgrade.

06. Not one to settle for standard black, Disco had his friend, professional painter Danny Martinez of Danny Martinez Paint, color-match the fairing to his bike’s Merlot Sunglow and Vivid Black paint scheme. Disco even had the speaker grilles painted to match as well.

09. Kevin then plugged the provided wiring lead into the stereo lead, then ran the other end along the length of the backbone. To remove Disco’s existing audio setup, Kevin had removed the tank. This made it easier to run the DCC stereo lead along the backbone, but if you simply unbolt the back of the tank and loosen the front, you should be able to fish the lead through with the tank still on the bike.

10. At the battery box, the lead was plugged into the accessory connector and the wiring was done.

11. One of the unique things about the DCC fairing is that it has threaded stainless steel plates that are bonded to the fiberglass in the inner fairing and provide solid engagement and easy alignment when installing the windscreen/securing the top of the outer fairing. After securing the windscreen the installation was complete.

12. If Kevin didn’t have to remove Disco’s existing audio setup, he would have been done with the install in less than 20 minutes. After knocking down several trips, Disco reported back that he was really happy with quick-detach fairing and stereo. He said the sound quality and clarity is much better. Double the size of his other speakers, he says can really hear the music pumping out of the 6-1/2-inch Polks at freeway speed and doesn’t have to turn it all the way up. He also likes that there isn’t so much wind noise, loves the wind protection the full fairing provides, and the fact that within a matter of seconds he can go from bagger to slimmed-down cruiser. To hear a sample audio system, log onto hotbikeweb.com.