| Author | Message | ||
     Road_thing |
...what do you think?  Yes, it is hot in Houston, thank you very much... rt | ||
| Henrik |
Sweeet! Henrik | ||
| Tramp |
that looks kickASS, RT!!!!! DANG!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Leftcoastal |
NICE RIDE! RT Is that sweat from kickin' that beast in that hot Texas weather? How are those dual plug heads working out? AL | ||
| Blake |
Classic. | ||
| Rock |
What Henrik said! | ||
| Road_thing |
Thanks, gents, I'm pleased with the way it's coming along. Still have to buff some nits out of the paint, but that's trivial. The sweat is from 95 degrees and 95% humidity in the Entropy Lab del Sud. When crude hits $100 a barrel, I'm gonna air-condition! The bike has an electric starter, but sometimes I kick it anyway, just to remind myself how good we have it these days...  One more shot... rt | ||
| Tramp |
ahhhhhh! one of those zany 3rd year (+/-) AMF FLHes, i think. excellent model years.... I've retrofit/rebl't. quite a few frontends for that model. that is one beautiful piece, RT! | ||
| Road_thing |
Merci beaucoup, Tramp. The front end job was pretty straightforward, once I used my acetylene wrench to get the caps unstuck. The old springs were sacked and the spooge that was in the forks barely deserved to be called oil. I think I'm gonna need a new set of springs for the pogo stick, it bottoms out pretty easy. Other than that, I'm ready to ride! rt | ||
| Bomber |
Thang -- gorgeous scoot, sir, but you already knew that! right color, too! well done! | ||
| Newfie_buell |
Nice Ride for Cruisin on. | ||
| Road_thing |
Al, didn't mean to ignore your question about the dual plugs, that's the way the bike came to me, and I haven't had any issues with the set-up. It starts easily and idles well, runs great but, in all honesty, I don't really rip on it. Like Newfie says, it's a great bike for cruising, not really a hi-performance piece. The coil is clunky-looking piece, though, it looks like half an octopus with red tentacles! rt | ||
| Cruisin |
What's a nice ride for me? | ||
| Bigdaddy |
RT, Check this out (there's others, I know, but this is a known good thing: ) http://www.exilecycles.com/new_products.htm Go down a bit and look at the Rock Shox. Toss up a round oil bag and you'll be Cadillac-ing. Gotta love a Shovel with a kicker,,,,squirt, squirt, find the compression,,,,here we go. Good work indeed -- please keep us up to date on progress. G2 | ||
| Philip |
very nice job r_t. can't go wrong with basic black. | ||
| Road_thing |
Bigdaddy: Thanks, that looks like a great addition! My pogo sticks bottoms out way too easily (hm, nothing to do with the fact that I go 235 on a good day, and I'm not talking MPH here!). I've had some correspondence with the guys at Kustom Culture about this product:  It seems to be about the same thing as the one you showed me, runs about $260. The heavy weight H-D spring set for the stock pogo stick is about $90. I'm looking for a cheap upgrade to the stock hardware before I plunk down that kind of money. Anybody got any tricks they want to share? rt |
