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.....
Washed it, put tire dressing on the new bags, and went for a 15 mile run this afternoon. Shame it rained all morning, would have had a group ride for about a hundred miles..
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.
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.
Road the Street Glide to and from work. What a nice ride. When I was younger I said that I would rather get a convertible before buying one of those old guy bikes. I guess I got old. I've been missing a lot of great rides.
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
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
This little red psychopath. I was set on buying a Multistrada, but when rumors started flying that my dreams of a V4 Streetfighter may be realized, I decided I'd have to buy one if on offer. It's going to be a loooong time until May gets here.
Ton, 100 mph or 100 score at darts.
The 83 XS400 hit 100, at 10,000 revs when new. Probably with a skinny kid in leathers, and tucked in like a board racer.
I have a front window, spats ( leg guards ) top box and ammo case side bags. My best to date is a nudge over 90, sitting in a normal...
Anyone here have a preference to what final drive they prefer? I currently ride belt drive but have ridden chain and shaft. I would prefer belt for various reasons. Anyone?
Seems like a lot of Harley riders these days are keeping their bikes stock, although I am not one of them. I don't know what that is, worried about future problems?
In the past not too many were worried about that, most couldn't wait to get their stage 1 or 2 installed at the dealer. Any thought?
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