Harley Davidson FXSTB FXSTBI Softail Night Train 2001 Service Manual

Harley's own confirmed dealer copy sums up this bike's whole identity directly: "Harley riders have always had a special place in their hearts for the color black. The black-on-black Night Train has a profile that pushes the limit. Sink deep into the depths of its low custom seat. Settle in behind the stainless drag bars on top of six-inch risers, and a wide raked fork straddling a 21-inch laced wheel." That same confirmed copy describes the engine treatment specifically: "the hefty, one-piece tank is settled over the bike's new Twin Cam 88B engine, which is blacked out, using wrinkle black finishes."

Power comes from the rigid-mounted, counter-balanced Twin Cam 88B, an air-cooled 1,449cc V-twin, a 95.3mm x 101.6mm bore and stroke, and an 8.9:1 compression ratio, delivering a claimed 63 hp (47 kW) at 5,300 rpm and 106 Nm (78.2 lb-ft) of torque at 3,200 rpm, fed by either a 40mm constant-velocity carburetor with enrichener and accelerator pump (FXSTB) or 38mm-throttle-bore Electronic Sequential Port Fuel Injection (FXSTBI), through a 5-speed transmission with belt final drive.

Standard equipment included a black powdercoated engine with wrinkle-black and texture-black covers, a laced front wheel paired with a disc rear wheel, a Badlander seat, drag bars, and blacked-out tank console, rear fender supports, air cleaner, and oil tank — genuinely the most thoroughly blacked-out Softail Harley offered that model year. Braking used a single 292mm disc at each wheel with 4-piston calipers, riding on an 80/90-19 front and 130/90-16 rear tire combination.

Confirmed factory dimensions list a 95-inch length, a genuinely low 25.1-25.2-inch seat height, 5.6 inches of ground clearance, a 33.5-degree rake with 5.0 inches of trail, and a 66.7-66.9-inch wheelbase. Fuel capacity comes in at 5.0 gallons (18.9 litres), with dry weight at 629-672 lbs depending on fuel-system configuration.

This factory service manual covers the procedures, torque specs, and diagrams needed to keep a 2001 Softail Night Train FXSTB/FXSTBI running the way it was built to.