Thanks, used to live for bikes but of late it isn`t as important as it used to be. Don`t take me wrong i`d hate to think of not having one but now if i can just walk out and look at a nice lookin scooter it feels good. Heck three years ago i put 14,000 miles on a Road Glide and never left the state.
Those sound like nice bikes, i`d still like to build a pan chopper someday but don`t know if it will get done. I miss the old days when every bike had a chain and things were a little easier to get away with. But i don`t drink or smoke anymore and feel lousy most the time so not anywhere to go anyway.
People worry about the old Harleys but if ya know how to work on them no worries, i took off from MN. with 75 bucks in my pocket in 79 and rode a 72 sporty chop to Calif. rode the same bike three times across the country. That 72 had thin cylinders new so it was bored out to the max, i rode into Alamosa CO. blowing oil out the pipes. Rings just wouldn`t last in them thin cylinders, tore it down in a apartment parking lot hitch hiked to Trinidad for some new rings. Sand papered the cylinders and put back together and hit the road.
I finally re sleaved those jugs back to a stock nine hundred and she ran great for a long time. In 72 when harley changed the 900`s to a 1,000 they just bored the cylinders out only leaving 30,000.
Never had a bike leave me walkin other than running out of gas or a flat tire.
Been pretty good all in all
