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What did you do with your bike today?

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#1 ·
Me and my lady went for a nice ride on the Street Glide to a nice restaurant in Evansville, Ind. It has been a beautiful day.
 
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Punctures

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Well i guess u like in usa lovely roads here in uk they are rubbish they dont fill in a hole unless its so deap,

Ive never had a puncture in motor bike or my racing cycles.

I put that green slime in them all it seals most punctures which are mostly thorns.

This stuff works.

Yep sure does
 
#6 ·
Grouper maybe??? My mouth is watering...:) :)

Absolutely Beautiful Riding weather here yesterday and today. Daughter called yesterday morning & said she wanted to put a roof over her deck & would dad & I help....other daughter & son in law were trying to put up a garage door opener & couldn't figure out how.......I got to look at the bikes every time I had to go into the garage to get a tool to take to one or the other's house. Both projects are now done. :) :) Chance of rain tomorrow and Tuesday.....

I'm so glad for all of you that got to ride!!!
 
#8 ·
Took the bar end mirrors off and tried to get the factory bar weights to fit in the Superbike bars with the bar end mirrors.
I finally found something sort of wrong on the new CB1100. With the Superbike bars/bar end mirrors mounted there is a barely perceptible high speed buzz in the bars that numbs the hands after 90 min or so of riding.
I put the stock mirrors and weights back and went out for two hours and no problem.
The bar end mirrors just won't fit with the stock bar weights installed. I think I may look for a different set of mirrors.
 
#13 ·
I ran outta gas and had to walk a mile, buy a gas can and gas, then walk back to the bike. No fuel gauge and I'd forgotten that I needed to go straight to the nearby ethanol-free gas station before I did anything else.
Then, I had no way of getting the gas can back, so I left it on the curb in front of some guy's yard, rushed home to get a bungee, then went back to get the can.

Then, I rode about half an hour to my brother's pad, and nobody was home, so I rode back through neighborhoods I'd never seen before and found some pretty neat little areas.
 
#16 ·
Welp... had I bothered to check, I would have discovered that the slip-on Cobra mufflers I got for my Max do not use gaskets like the stock exhaust does, so since the clamp came in today, I was able to get the new (to me) exhaust mounted. Sounds decent enough. Looks AWESOME! Lost maybe 20hp.


Gonna have to get a new set of headers that will help bring that lost power back
 
#21 ·
Left work early (I'm retiring next month and already starting to act like I'm retired) and went for an hour and a half, 75 mile ride in southern Wisconsin with my wife. The countryside is so green and lush right now it is truly beautiful, even to an old city boy like me.
 
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Words always seem to never be enough, so sorry for your loss. The picture reminds me of my dad's 46 or 47 Knucklehead, the one he would bring in through the sliding glass door right into the living room, and work on it over the winter months. My mother would be furious about it yet somehow that bike never left that room till warm riding weather appeared.

Funny, after while she would watch him work on it while drinking her coffee and running for tools. She managed to keep the oil and grease to a minimum on the carpet. Those were great days...
 
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Thank you very much Eye. Her suffering if over. She had a very good life and taught me to do the same. I think your right about the bike. I grew up on the back of dads Harleys. That picture was taken in 1960. He had so many different ones. Like father like son I guess.
 
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That's reason enough to celebrate her life, no?

It would take a real Panhead expert to say for sure, but I know that paint scheme with those tank panels was available in 1956 and MAYBE 1957, but no other years. (I've got a 1956 FLH.) The more I think about it the more I think it's an FLE, but again, I'm not 100% sure. Your Dad must have added the cabbage cutter rear bumper, which was a Harley accessory, and looks VERY cool, then and now. Great picture.
 
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