Neil Wyatt | 10/11/2015 09:31:19 |
![]() 19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles | Welcome to the forum Debs, Yellow to match the Rutan? Neil |
Hopper | 10/11/2015 11:10:00 |
![]() 7881 forum posts 397 photos | Posted by John Stevenson on 05/10/2015 23:32:00:
I had thought about going in and moderating the thread and deleting a few posts. Not because it was my thread but more because I hate Apple, Adobe, Norton and Harley Davidson, but not necessarily in that order................ Tsk tsk. The hyphen is standard equipment on Harley-Davidson. |
John Stevenson | 10/11/2015 14:06:28 |
![]() 5068 forum posts 3 photos | Apparently 95% of all the Harleys made are still on the road. The other 5% did make it home.. |
Martin Kyte | 10/11/2015 14:13:48 |
![]() 3445 forum posts 62 photos | Goodness sake back off John, the last thing we need a flood of more cheap Iron from scrapped Harleys. :0) Martin |
Hopper | 10/11/2015 14:24:23 |
![]() 7881 forum posts 397 photos | Posted by John Stevenson on 10/11/2015 14:06:28:
Apparently 95% of all the Harleys made are still on the road. The other 5% did make it home.. I thoughtthat was BMWs with their self-destructing bevel drives and gear boxes? |
Hopper | 10/11/2015 14:26:07 |
![]() 7881 forum posts 397 photos | Posted by Martin Kyte on 10/11/2015 14:13:48:
Goodness sake back off John, the last thing we need a flood of more cheap Iron from scrapped Harleys. :0) Martin Not to worry. No iron on the modern Harleys. |
Nicholas Farr | 10/11/2015 17:29:45 |
![]() 3988 forum posts 1799 photos | Posted by John Stevenson on 10/11/2015 14:06:28:
Apparently 95% of all the Harleys made are still on the road. The other 5% did make it home.. Ah! but did they ride, or were they pushed! Regards Nick. |
duncan webster | 10/11/2015 17:36:56 |
5307 forum posts 83 photos | Surely 'modern' and 'harley'; constitutes an oxymoron |
John Stevenson | 10/11/2015 17:41:06 |
![]() 5068 forum posts 3 photos | No an Oxymoron is an idiot welder, ask Neil |
Mike Poole | 10/11/2015 19:18:18 |
![]() 3676 forum posts 82 photos | I don't think Harleys are about motorcycling, they are for weekend warriors with "righteous bro" pretensions. just my opinion! Mike |
Muzzer | 10/11/2015 19:55:17 |
![]() 2904 forum posts 448 photos | aka Village People bikes. |
Phil Whitley | 10/11/2015 22:04:57 |
![]() 1533 forum posts 147 photos | Posted by Michael Poole on 10/11/2015 19:18:18:
I don't think Harleys are about motorcycling, they are for weekend warriors with "righteous bro" pretensions. just my opinion! Mike I'll have you know my brother has a Harley........................................and you are SPOT ON! I will also confirm what JS already knows, the build quality is abysmal, all the "chrome" embellishments are plastic, and it had both mudguards perforated by rust at only 5 years old(and I mean like lacework) because (GET THIS) there is no paint inside the mudguard, it is bare steel (I use the word steel in it's loosest sense) Rear seat held on by an aluminium D nut with a steel bolt in it, through a hole in the mudguard. You really have to experience how bad they are to believe it. Needles to say he hasn't ridden it for a couple of years, it sits in his workshop partly in bits.!
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Hopper | 11/11/2015 02:51:47 |
![]() 7881 forum posts 397 photos | I stick with my 1942, 1977 and 1995 models. Never any trouble with any of them. Rode the '77 on a 6,000 mile cross-country trip in 2008 and it never missed a beat. I've owned it since new and it's never let me down. I can't speak for the new ones though. Most of the spare parts and accessories are labelled Made in China so they are not "real" Harleys.
Edited By Hopper on 11/11/2015 02:53:13 Edited By Hopper on 11/11/2015 03:02:40 |
john carruthers | 11/11/2015 07:45:58 |
![]() 617 forum posts 180 photos | >>Rode the '77 on a 6,000 mile cross-country trip in 2008 and it never missed a beat.<<
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JasonB | 11/11/2015 08:09:50 |
![]() 25215 forum posts 3105 photos 1 articles | Looks like we now have two motorcycle threads , can I suggest anymore aboput bikes is posted in the other thread to keep this one about bodging.
J |
Michael Gilligan | 11/11/2015 08:18:11 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Posted by JasonB on 11/11/2015 08:09:50:
Looks like we now have two motorcycle threads , can I suggest anymore aboput bikes is posted in the other thread to keep this one about bodging. . Trouble is, Jason ... 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' is perhaps the ultimate philosophical study of bodging. MichaelG. |
Neil Wyatt | 11/11/2015 10:19:44 |
![]() 19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles | Well I suppose Hopper's 'hybrid Harleys' raise a question about authenticity... Neil |
Gordon W | 11/11/2015 10:39:47 |
2011 forum posts | A couple of blokes came to buy some bits off me- they both had Harleys, full dress I believe it's called. I said " Hello, didn't know there was a ploughing match " they were not amused, no sense of humour. Back on topic- Zen and the art..... is not about bodging, it's about sensible stuff such as cutting shims from coke cans.I was just surprised the man did not know about these things before. |
Mike Poole | 11/11/2015 10:56:15 |
![]() 3676 forum posts 82 photos | Switch to bike thread for further discussion. |
John Stevenson | 05/12/2015 00:02:36 |
![]() 5068 forum posts 3 photos | Thought this one was interesting because of the amount or wear on the steel rotor but the resin pulley got off quite lightly.
The rotor was nearly a 'D' shape and the bit on the pulley is what is left of a 6mm square key, that rolled over it's neatly 8mm in one direction but the soft pulley although worm and bell mouthed has come off very well compared.
So bit of weld and whilst it's drying knock a top hatted sleeve up and press and screw into the pulley hub. Final turn down, polish a keyway and jobs a good un.
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