On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:23:16 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

Monkey bars *must* get uncomfortable after a few miles.

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Yah but think of the increased ventilation in hot weather and improved
gripping area for your biker babe. :-)

On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:52:02 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:23:16 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

Monkey bars *must* get uncomfortable after a few miles.

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Yah but think of the increased ventilation in hot weather and improved
gripping area for your biker babe. :-)

And the underarm odor would keep folks from following too close. Yup. Makes sense.

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.

On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:04:04 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:23:16 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

Two things I can't understand - choppers and monkey bars. It would seem both would be detrimental to
the handling of the bike. Never tried them though. I'm thinking they're more for attention getting
than anything else. Monkey bars *must* get uncomfortable after a few miles.

Yeah, "Ape Hangers". They never made sense to me either.

I asked a chopper guy once why they had those little tear drop tanks.
He said by the time you used that gallon of gas, you wanted to get
off.

That makes sense. My Guzzi holds almost six gallons. I used to stop every 100 miles, once for a
cigarette, and then for a cigarette and fill-up. Now I stop every 60-70 miles - to pee. And every
third pee break I fill up. Getting old's a bitch.

On Saturday, March 29, 2014 1:02:20 PM UTC-7, 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.

Ah yes, ye olde "battery Eliminator". When I got my 500 Triumph Daytona, somebody had put on in it. What a crock. Some one had installed one, and it was exactly like you said. really hard to start. if you took off at low speeds the alternator would stall out and it would die. You couldn't start it with the headlight on, and when you got to a bit of a speed you could turn on the light and it would momentarily die, then in a second or so, the engine would revive. Not a good thing in any kind of traffic.

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.

Taht's cool. Get 'em comin' and goin'

I found this picture of my old 72 Super Glide.



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

When in high school, I always lusted after an FX "Superglide" (Captin America)

http://img.eatsleepride.com/content/list/8752.jpg