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What's your poison? MC that is

96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
edited June 2002 in General Discussion
See a lot of post with motorcyle ties. What do some of you ride?
Myself a 2001 HD Electra Glide.
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  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    Rode a Boss Hoss once (no self"respecting" Harley-driver would ever wave back... weird), had an old MZ-250 and a nonworking Nimbus with gear-rod to the left of the gas-tank. =o)

    Can't ride MC here in Greenland, they're banned/outlawed.
    The only two MC's left, are allowed - as the legislation can't overrule MC's bought/registred before the legislation (like the Pre-Ban phenomenon you have..)

    Would definately get a Boss Hoss again. =o) it's strong enough to carry an arsenal.

    Regards
    Peter E Jeppesen

    (i always call it Hoss Boss, easier to say..)

    I love my silenced .22 Anshutz rifle =o) And soon to be Steyr Scout with 10-round ext-set. ;o_
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  • Harleeman1030Harleeman1030 Member Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1984 flt......1987 fxrs...Wife has an 87 fxrc...

    Been riding since i was 18 36 now... had an 1981 fxe till 1995 finally sold her she took my well you know.......
    live about an hour drive from Daytona..Wife wants to ride to sturgis..Yes i do not own a trailer never have never will..I have 346,000 on the 84...My 87 i bought in 2000 had 17,000 on it has 51,000 now..Sometimes when i get home i have 2 weeks off at a time i just ride everyday anywhere i go....LIVE TO RIDE...RIDE TO LIVE
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    I gotta 2000 FXSTB "Nightrain". She's counterbalanced and frisky!!
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    1969 Sportster, XLCH, Magneto, 8" extended forks. Touring tank. Same bike since 1970. Old but runs fine, like me.

    **I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    1969 Sportster, XLCH, Magneto, 8" extended forks. Touring tank. Same bike since 1970. Old but runs fine, like me.

    **I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**
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  • kgnovumkgnovum Member Posts: 594 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Living in Houston I don't like to get on the roadways around here too much, so now I have a Suzuki DR650 and mostly go out on the dirt and back roads, trails, etc. Still have two friends that have multiple Harley's that I can borrow whenever - so I feel I got the best of both worlds. KG
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    1991 Harley FXRS-Convertible. Bought it new 11 years ago, has around 75,000 miles on it today. I've ridden it all over the western USA and as far east as South Dakota. Have a lot of performance goodies on it and it runs very strong and very reliable. Just came in from a test ride not 15 minutes ago. Spent the past week putting a new drive belt on it, new Russell stainless brake discs up front, two new tires and a 34 tooth Andrews drive pulley to replace the stock 32 tooth unit. Dropped the engine RPMs a little over 200 at any given speed. Cruises a lot smoother on the highway now.

    Jesus! Motorcycles banned in Greenland? How can that be? Is Greenland an iron curtain country or what? I'd be moving the hell out of there if I were you, Pete. Are you still allowed to leave?

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    2001 883 custom. Big mistake too small for my fat *. Seriously considering ordering a police special when all the 100th aniversary hype is over with.

    Woods

    Remember a bike is personalized with a catalog, It's customized with a hacksaw.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    93 FLHTCU it has 60,000 miles so far. Tricked out a little. The wife actually fell asleep on the back, coming home from Sturgis one year, with that couch she has on the back. Had alot of others, Most of the time I just want to putt now days.P.S. I wave back to everyone no matter what they ride.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • grizzclawgrizzclaw Member Posts: 1,159 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I just sold my Ironhead, I needed the money to build a garage to go with the new house my wife always wanted. She just bought a new car for herself, and a new used car for our daughter. She told me that when they are payed for I can get another ride. Only 5yrs. to go. I hope to get an FLH the next time around.

    Thanks, Grizztribefans@sssnet.com
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had a "Whizzer" on an old Schwinn once...for those that don't know, these were small gas engine kits that attached to a bicycle...wish I had it now. Spent all my money on guns...never got the chance to get into motorcycles.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    56 Panhead
    straight leg ridged frame-6 volt-up sweep * pipes under the trans.-AEE finned valve covers-drag bars-1970 Sortster front end-one of a kind Triple Trees.
    I bought this Bike for $1,000 back in Jan.1978.

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!

    Edited by - RugerNiner on 06/23/2002 13:37:13
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rode a 1970 750 Norton Commando (Dunstall spec engine) for 18 years, still have my '69 Greeves Ranger (250).
    Some guys like a mag full of lead, I still prefer one round to the head.
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  • squeakycsqueakyc Member Posts: 204 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I drove a candy apple red 1975 Honda 750K. It was a fun machine but marriage, kids, responsibility, and it was gone. When I turn 50 in a few years I'll be buying a touring bike to get back on the roads and see some of the country. Oh yea........I'll be taking my wife.
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  • hunter280manhunter280man Member Posts: 705 ✭
    edited November -1
    750 Kawasaki Specter, a real nice bike with black chrome, ebony with red-wine tank and fenders...Very sharp looking. Sold it just after I go married also. Had a near death experience on a quick road trip to the UP...Wifey got afeared for me.

    Will look for a full dresser after the curtain climber gets a little older. Not sure if I'll stick with rice burners and get a Aspencade or go to a Harley, leaning towards the latter right now, still got a few years to think about it!

    Though I was born to royalty, I was snatched at birth, so treat me as the noble I am!!!
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  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1978 FLH (King of the Road, ) The owners manual calls is a 1978-1/2 for some reason. Last of the 1200's. Completely went through it years back, no lead valves,guides, all new guts in engine, it didn't really need it, I just wanted to un amf it for reliability reasons. It is sitting now with just saddle bags and windshield, but I have the full fairing and tour pack. It even has an insert that fits into the fairing that holds a radio,(it was am/fm 8track when I got it), and a set of guages. Put a S/S Super carb on it. Been to Sturgis many times. Colorado mountains and Minnesota also. It has never, ever made me walk, although on the way back from Minnesota we had to push start it for a day, until we got down to Souix City for parts, when a starter relay went out. It's bright red and part of the family!!

    "Just my opinion."
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  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Currently a Honda TRX 300 4x4 with big super swampers.......BUT one day when the kids grow up I'll get me a big two wheeler............

    coonass

    We Live in a World of Give And Take, But A Lot Of People Won't Give What it Takes.
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  • hdwrenchhdwrench Member Posts: 954 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    1984FXST , first year softail , bought it new . still runs great !!we're building a 51 pan into a wishbone ridgid frame now , will be a sunday cruzer .we're looking for an evo dresser to ride to sturgis on,
    if anybody knows of one drop me an email (hdwrenchski@aol.com).
    we own an un-authorized harley shop in western n.y.

    wrench
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  • dandydandy Member Posts: 221 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had several Harleys until I bought 81 electroglide (new) dresser. It still amazes me how people looking at the newer bikes will stop to come look at my old dinasour.I have kept it all original except for the 1963 thunderbird brake pedal. Need to find and ss carb though.
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  • Harleeman1030Harleeman1030 Member Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dandy email me Harleeman1030@aol.com I got lots of bro's that have shops might be able to hook you up on the s&s...Wayne

    Edited by - Harleeman1030 on 06/24/2002 00:40:24
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There's a guy back home in Minneapolis that built a motorcycle with a 454. Apparently that thing is all motor.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    We've had this discussion before so most of you could probably see this coming. I keep having to 'splain it....Mrs. Mudge and I ride "bikes". Mine is a '95 Road King and she's got an '88 Low Rider. They are not "motorcycles". "Motorcycles" are easily identified because they're disgusting hues of purple, green, yellow or red or a tasteless combination of those colors. "Bikes" on the other hand will say "Harley-Davidson" on them in about 42 different places (some factory applied but most H-D logos will be on "aftermarket" chrome goodies). For those of you who ride "motorcycles", Chrome is that shiny stuff that is liberally bolted on to "bikes".

    "Just funnin', son. Just funnin'."

    Mudge the HOG driver

    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!

    Edited by - mudge on 06/23/2002 23:57:27
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Hey Mudge: You ever think about changing your final drive gearing? I just changed to a 34 tooth front pulley and I can't believe the difference in the way my scoot runs on the highway. Lower RPM, smoother, better mileage and no real loss of acceleration. I shoulda done this years ago. But man, what a job to change it. First time I've ever torn off the primary drive and inner primary case. Lotsa parts in there. None left over when I finished, though. If I had it to re-think I'd just spend the extra money for the rear wheel pulley and change that instead. A lot less hassle but three times the bucks.

    Just came back from a 400 mile day trip and I'm really happy with the change.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    1960 Triumph 650cc Bonneville & 1951 Triumph 650cc Thunderbird.

    Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Low Rider.....sounds interesting. My only problem is....when I look in the mirror, I don't see a mechanic looking back.
    (My mechanic tells me to do that every time I get the urge to turn a wrench on something tricky.) He doesn't do it for job security. He rarely charges me for labor anyway. My only reference point would be how many RPM's I'm turning in 5th gear at a particular speed. Right now, in 5th gear, my speed is 2 1/2 times what my tach indicates for RPM's. ie. when my tach reads "20" (2000 rpm) I'm doing 50 mph. At "24" I'm doing 60 and at "30" I'm doing 75. You get the picture.
    How many RPM's did you knock off with the new gear? Was it worth the cost and effort. I'm also considering a 6 speed tranny if Custom Chrome can get the bugs worked out of them. They've had to recall almost all of them due to a shifter fork breakage problem.

    Mudge the curious

    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have any of you heard about the little get together in Beanblossom, Indiana called the "Beanblossom Boogie"? If so, are any of you going to it next month? Just curious. I thought if you were, we could set up a meeting for a cup of coffee and get to meet in Nashville, IN.
    I don't go to the boogie but I do ride the outskirts of it. It's just too wild for me even though a lot of good people go to it just to see the odd and unusual.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Mudge: The pulley change dropped 220 RPMs off at any given speed. Like I said, you can accomplish the same thing by changing to a smaller rear wheel pulley. The new rear pulleys run around 400 bucks, compared to 150 for the front, but you can change the rear in about an hour by just dropping the rear wheel, unbolting the old pulley and bolting the new one on. No sweat. Changing the front is a lot more involved. I don't know how many hours a pro. Harley mechanic would have in it, but it took me a total of about 10 or 12 hours. There are also some special tools required, like an inch and seven-eighths deep socket. VERY (6 inches) deep. I had one made. I'll probably never use it again.

    '96HD: I've never been to the Bean Blossom Boogie but I've seen a lot of pictures. Easyriders magazine usually does a spread on it every year. Looks like a good time.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • RickstirRickstir Member Posts: 574 ✭
    edited November -1
    Never been on one. Worked on a ambulance in St. Louis County in the '60's. Picked one up off the street everyday in the summer-time. Kind of got me un-interested.

    Like in the NFL, defense is the key.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    If we stayed away from all activities that were dangerous, about all we could safely do would be to sit at home in the LazyBoy. No thanks. I'll live it to the fullest and not worry about the what-if's.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rickstir
    I'm not trying to be a smartypants here but when you work in an ambulance don't you expect see injured and/or dead and dying people during any certain work day? ie car accidents, slip fall, motor vehicle/pedestrian, dog bites, and yes, even motorcycle accidents.

    "Just my opinion."
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  • hdwrenchhdwrench Member Posts: 954 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    to lowrider and mudge , if you change your rear pully from a common 70 tooth to a lower tooth model (61) you will also have to change the belt as it will not properly adjust for tension . the change in front sprocket is slight enough to adjust up tension on the rear belt .however they do make an engine sprocket that will also adjust the RPM in any gear with a little less dissassembly

    just thought i could help out .wrench.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    I never even thought about the engine primary sprocket. Thanks for the advice. That WOULD be an easier swap. Too late now. I changed drive belts at the same time I changed the front pulley. Still used the stock 136 tooth belt but with the bigger front pulley the rear wheel is almost all the way forward. Guess I have lots of room for stretch.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • Harleeman1030Harleeman1030 Member Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well hell why is it that everyone always says i seen so many bad motorcycle wreaks..What happen to the cars HUH...My step kids Father was killed on his..( by a man who was stoned and had dope in the truck on his freaking cell phone (yes i have a cell phone LOL)..PULLED out in front of him and another car he was not able to stop.He slid under truck 18 wheeler by the way and the stoner backed up over him..(I have done drugs yes but like anything else there is a time and place)..My wife's family (her mother is an emer. room nurse)hated me when i bought hers BUT FK em i live my life live yours..I get along better with his family..LOL

    Edited by - Harleeman1030 on 06/24/2002 21:15:52
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  • nelchrisnelchris Member Posts: 557 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    79 XLS made up like a fatbob had from new,90 YAMAHA FZR 600 JUST GOT IT LAST YEAR man is it fast like a video game.I switch back and forth what a change in in the spectrem of things
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