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    Another motorcycle riding question

    in SASS Wire Saloon

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    10 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said:

    So long as the weather was okay and I wasn’t more than a couple hours from the house, I’d ride it home.

     

    If the weather was bad, I’d wait it out or find what it took to fix it!

     

     If I was more than a couple hours from home, I’d find what was needed and fix it.

     

    I have only had my bike hauled home twice in nearly a half million miles!  I blew up the transmission on a ride one weekend, about three hundred miles from home.  We were on a trip with friends.  We got motel rooms for the night and my son brought me my other bike and hauled the busted one to the house.  The old four speed was replaced with a six speed when I got home and we repaired and sold the old four speed to cover half the cost.

     

    I broke the primary chain and it destroyed the inner primary case and the clutch assembly.  We trailered it home and I replaced the whole assembly with a belt drive setup.

     

    I rode it from Chattanooga to Nashville on the front cylinder when it cracked a piston. I pulled the plug wire and rode it on home. I had two companions who trailed along, just in case it quit, but it never did.

     

    There’s not a bolt, nut, screw, wire, switch, or spoke on that old thing that I didn’t put on it at one time or another.  I had a well known professional Harley builder help me with the last engine build.  It was the last Shovelhead he built for a customer.  That was twenty-five years ago. I’ve owned and ridden that bike for nearly half my life!!

    Hey Blackwater..Do you have a pic of the Shovel ?

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    Motorcycle safety equipment

    in SASS Wire Saloon

    Posted

    I agree with Blackwater in that riders are all different with their choices of clothing, for myself I ride light,never shorts, tanktop or flip flops but only jeans, ordinary boots & shirt with a leather vest...we have no choice down -under as helmets are compulsory, hate full face so wear open face & the lighter the better, gloves, heavy jackets only in bad weather which I always have in my saddlebags...yep it's the other road users you gotta' watch but I want to feel as one with my bike not like a blob on top loaded up with clothing unless I have to.

    And yes before you ask  I have shredded the bark off myself before when in Oct '012 I had to put my bike down as my then wife  on her bike was killed in a head on collision [ RIP Keryn ]

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