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12-21-2014, 02:05 AM #1
Get well soon engine46.
How many? Well, one more now ....
Cheers, Steve
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12-21-2014, 02:40 AM #2
Thank you Steve56. I'm sitting here sore all over. Lucky no broken bones. I was waiting on a W&B blade I won on eBay last week & the seller was here on the other side of town. When I checked the tracking number, it had gone 250 miles away & this morning showed back up here & after about two hrs it said out for delivery. My mail showed up but was a different carrier that looked lost. I didn't get my blade but instead got someone else's mail so I guess my blade is going to the wrong address as well & I'll probably never see it!
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12-21-2014, 02:48 AM #3
Yes, I'm an old Harley rider too, have a '56 Hydra Glide I'm working on (slowly) in retirement. You fall off one even at low speed and it feels like someone beat you all over your body with a broomstick. Hard.
Mail is crazy. I bought a razor from a guy in Dallas, he sent it 2-day priority and it went to Minneaplois area where it spent 3 days before going back to Dallas, then to me in Knoxville. Seven days total. I send stones to Alex in Sonoma, takes 2 days. I send razors to a friend in Rhode Islnad, it takes 3. Go figure.
Cheers, Steve
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12-21-2014, 03:02 AM #4
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12-21-2014, 03:08 AM #5
Yep, lucked into it in the 1980s. It's all original except someone had cut the toolbox tab off which I replaced. Transmission is totally shot now but that's about all that's wrong with it. And an interesting tidbit, it's an FLH, not the FL. They produced less than 450 FLHs in '57 IIRC as the high compression models were not as popular apparently.
Cheers, Steve
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12-21-2014, 03:15 AM #6
If I slid a Harley down 1/4 mile of Thurigen V/S coticule how much would be left?
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12-21-2014, 03:17 AM #7
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12-21-2014, 03:26 AM #8
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12-21-2014, 03:32 AM #9
Mine may have been a police bike, it had the hand shift and I bought the last conversion kit they made that Colboch HD had to convert it to foot shift. Transmission lid, cables, brackets, and levers. Thanks for that info, I never thought of that!
It was repainted badly in black when I got it, and of course when I made the transition to foot shift I replaced the tanks, so no idea about the original color. I'm not sure if the fenders were original, the rear was in bad shape and I replaced it.
Yes, last of the hard tails.
Cheers, Steve
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12-21-2014, 03:43 AM #10
Just be careful out there. I'm an experienced rider & was a factory certified Harley-Davidson service tech for many years & this happened in less than a tenth of a second. The drunks are out with little or no regard for no one else at all but instead concentrating on having a buzz & driving. This was the typical driver going in the opposite direction, then decided to make a left turn in front of me. He couldn't hardly talk & was trying to get me to exchange insurance info before the cops got there & I said NOPE!!! When they got there, they said he had delayed response & appeared impaired, so he was on something. They told me he was most likely going to jail.
Any biker members, please watch out & ride safe. The idiots are out!!!!!!!!!!
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