American Motorcycle Dealer AMD 177 April 2014 | Page 52

Asymmetrically
machined billet
wheels

Vigilante Scout and
Flash Tuners available
through Zodiac

RENEGADE Wheels has brought a new
machining process to the world of custom
billet aluminum motorcycle wheels with its
‘asymmetrical machining’ procedure, which it
says allows deep surfacing that cannot be
achieved on traditional symmetrical
designed wheels.
The company is launching the new technique
with two wheel designs; the Baxter and
Tulsa. The Tulsa’s simplistic design looks like a
classic split five-spoke wheel, but has unique
full 3D effect on both sides. Also said to be a
first from Renegade, the Phantom-Cut
(shown) is made in the USA and CNC
machined from forged lightweight billet
aluminum. The hand-polished highlights
accent the black anodizing. The new designs,
as with the majority of the company’s
wheels, are also available in chrome and
black powdercoat.
Renegade offers its rims in diameters
ranging from 16in to 30in and with matching
rotors, sprockets,
pulleys, derby covers
and air cleaners.

PARTS AND ACCESSORIES

PARTS AND ACCESSORIES

RENEGADE WHEELS
Orange, California, USA
Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]
www.renegadewheels.com
ZODIAC International have added the Superchips
range of electronic tuning aids to the product lines
available to their dealers. The range includes the
Vigilante Scout and the Vigilante Flash Tuner and
Performance Meter.
Both are Android-based wireless performance
monitors and tuning aids for Harley-Davidson
models - the Vigilante Flash also being a fuel
injection flash-tuner.
Digital gauges, data monitoring and
performance meter apps are available to run on
Android mobile phones or even Android tablet
computers.
The Scout connects wirelessly via Bluetooth to
the motorcycle and allows users to monitor a
motorcycle and its performance by displaying
virtual gauges in various configurations, userconfigurable parameter display and data logging,
also known as data acquisition or DAQ.
It also shows diagnostic trouble code (DTC) with
the option to clear them. Along with speed in mph
or kph and rpm, it also shows which gear the bike
is in and gives 0-60mph and 1⁄4-mile times.
For those who want to tune the bike’s fuel
injection system on a stock or Stage 1 (stock
motorcycle with performance air cleaner and/or
performance exhaust) there is also the Vigilante
Flash, which re-flashes the stock electronic control
module after downloading a tune file from the
Vigilante homepage.
The install is done by plugging the Bluetooth
dongle in the Data Bus of the bike and th