On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:02:20 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:00:46 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

On Saturday, March 29, 2014 9:32:01 AM UTC-7, wrote:

Springers with derby hubs are not that bad as long as you have a hand
clutch and a foot brake (rear). If you have a hand jammer with a foot
clutch and a foot brake, you run out of feet coming up to a light ;-)\
I was still never much of a chopper guy. I thought my 72 Super Glide
may have been the cleanest stock Harley they ever made. I did have
"Sportster" pipes on it instead of that collector system they shipped
with.

I never saw much future in butchering a bike either.

It was a real fad in the late 60s and early 70s. The ones I never
understood were the Triumph choppers. They would take a 650 Bonneville
and try to make it look like a Harley.
One casualty was usually the battery because that was the easy way to
get the seat lower. There was a trick where you hid a couple thousand
MFD capacitor somewhere and that was enough to excite the alternator
to get things going. If it wasn't running perfectly tho, you had a
bike that was harder to start than a 69 "mag" Sportster.
In the end, you still had a Triumph that was just hard to ride.

We made lots of money taking "customized" Harleys back to stock. There
was a guy in Hillcrest Heights named Andrew Jackson who dealt Harley
parts for a living. We would swap him custom parts for stock parts one
for one and he would make lots of money swapping them back the other
way, giving a pittance for the trade in to guys who wanted to
customize.

I found this picture of my old 72 Super Glide.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/72%20harley.jpg

Cool. That picture's been around a while. I suppose I'll die without ever owning a Harley, unless
Eisboch decides to give me a *super* deal on his.