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My 07 Night Train

Very stealthy!

 

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Thats a tiny bike!

 

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2021 LowRider S @ 2 weeks old.

 

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Getting Close:

 

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I sold my big touring bikes and a couple of months ago bought a nice 2002 Softail Standard from a good friend, who had purchased it new. It had been sitting for a bit so I took it to John's Performance Shop near Port Orchard, WA and had a 5k service done (Redline lubricants) along with getting new Michelin tires. John also gave me a new in the box front wheel from newer bike. Also got front brakes and wheel bearings.

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I bought a set of Heritage bags from a friend, installed stiffeners in the bags and fabricated mounts from some old chair brackets from chairs off of the USS Nimitz that had been discarded. A friend powder coated them. I then installed the highway bars and foot pegs (not in pic). A friend who has a shop full of Pans and Shovelheads, along with tons of spare parts gave me a nice windscreen. I also installed new Harley mirrors, hand grips and relocated the turn signals to the front forks. Also just installed some floorboards, which make it very comfortable for riding, but getting to the shifter is now difficult so am weighing my options.

Looks like she's ready to get broken in. Better late than never!

 

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All nice machines. I should have clarified my description as gently used, well maintained and with relatively low miles at 25K miles. That is low to me for a 19 year old bike since I put a lot of miles on a bike, riding around the US and Canada.

I'm trying to determine how I should upgrade the cam chain tensioners, to include those rotten INA bearings. There are many posts about it so hopefully I'll find the correct way to proceed. John at John's Performance Shop told me of a number of options, from installing the S&S gear drives or upgrading to later model hydraulic cam chain tensioners, cams, cam carrier plate, high capacity oil pump etc. Color me confused by the entire thing.

First you would need to measure crank runout to see if gear drives are even a consideration.

I went with the HD hydraulic cam chain tensioner upgrade which includes a better oil pump. Upgrade kits now include the Screamin Eagle oil pump. Was a separate purchase for the SE oil pump when I did mine.

 

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Forgot the link to the article I mentioned. I don't see an Edit button on this forum.

Crankshaft Balancing

They hid the edit under the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the post.

 

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Is that a stock seat? I;ve been looking for a replacement for my stock Street Bob and yours looks comfortable and more padded than the stock "bob".

That's a stock Heritage seat.

 

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Lucky he didn't get a death wobble! :eek

 

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My 2022 Fat Bob 114. Seat, quick-detach backrest, grips, fork and swingarm bags, led signals, K&N filter element, slip-ons, and Pro Street tuner installed. Screamin Eagle black exhaust heat shields to replace the bronze ones on order...
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I test rode one of those when they first came out. That is one handling machine!

 

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Been a while, I keep changing stuff on occasion, then I don't take any "glamor shots" and pretty much all the pics I have are out-dated. I decided to half ass two pictures the other day, which will be also not up-to-date once tax money comes in and I replace that V&H exhaust with a D&D Fat Cat.

I'm also too lazy to scout a good location for snapping some better pics or trying to figure out the best angles/shots to take. She's a busy one, makes it harder to shoot 1 or 2 pics that shows most of everything, a lot going on, no fancy smooth lines... happens sometimes when you put function over form.
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Very clean. 👍

 

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Recently a 1989 Softail followed me home, and I just had to keep her. The previous owner bought her new at Dudley Perkins in San Francisco in 1988, and put every possible upgrade on her over the years. He was not a rider though, and the bike only has about 20K miles. I can live with that.

I got lucky with this bke, I learned of it through word-of-mouth, friend-to-friend. I went over to see the bike, talked to the previous owner for an hour, he fired it up. I didn't even test ride the bike, didn't haggle over price, I just asked him how he wanted payment.


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Can tell it's not an 88 or earlier, those had Hitachi starters. HD used Denso starters from 89 on.

 

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hi
joined this site a week ago. even though we are "newbies" here, we have been in 2 and 4 wheel motorsports for over 35 years. if you read our "new to site post" you can see we shared our passions and some of our collection. my wife and i are both harley owners who joined for the fellowship and share a common interest. i have joined in posts on this forum in a polite manner. we all have our opinions ...whether their right or wrong.....we have to have respect for each other. that is what is stated in this forum's rules. well...the past two days a very senior member posted ignorant sexual statements in extremely offensive valger language to my wife and i. No need for this. these forums are a public domain where younger people come as well as different genders. no need or place for what was said. today's world has zero tolerance for harassment and bullying. allowing these types of posts to be made makes you part of the problem. the majority of sites have a function that dis-allows anyone from typing and leaving foul language. we have been on the site a very short time...and already seen enough. today is the last day of membership on this forum. wish you all the best...please ride safe...happy holidays chris

 

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Helmet to go with the El Diablo bikes.

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