Why don't newer big twins have the potato sound?
#21
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Smack Dab in the Middle of Louisiana
Posts: 2,427
Likes: 0
Received 2 Likes
on
2 Posts
"Potato, Potato, Potato", always sounded strange to me...
Not the sound, but the verbal 'rendition', it still doesn't have that classic 'tha-thump, tha-thump, tha-thump'...yet the Po-ta-to Po-ta-to is a three beat sound coming out of a two cylinder engine.
Ya just got-ta love it..........
and the fella in the back row asks, "How's that go again?"
Not the sound, but the verbal 'rendition', it still doesn't have that classic 'tha-thump, tha-thump, tha-thump'...yet the Po-ta-to Po-ta-to is a three beat sound coming out of a two cylinder engine.
Ya just got-ta love it..........
and the fella in the back row asks, "How's that go again?"
#23
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Along the shoreline in SE CT, and SW FL
Posts: 11,153
Received 4,098 Likes
on
1,490 Posts
The guy behind me said it goes like "banana - banana - banana"....
I told him that's what his wife uses to finish herself after he's done in 30 seconds.
I told him that's what his wife uses to finish herself after he's done in 30 seconds.
#24
I'll take gravy on my potatos please, but my '95 evo with a Mikuni carb, street/touring cam and Thunderheader goes "lub-lub, lub-lub, lub-lub" . I get complements on the sound all the time, even my non-riding, stuffy-*** neighbors seem to like the sound.
#26
It's a conspiracy from the anti-potato lobbyists. First, they screw up the fries at Burger King, MacDonalds, etc. Now this.
#29
I had a recording of an old pan head on slow idle, and just about to quit. When my 99 EVO is cold, and I let it drop off the vacuum switch, it sounds exactly like the pan. After it warms up it idles a little faster and does not drop off the switch. I usually use the throttle lock to warm it up, but once in a while I let it drop off to slow idle for a second or two, just to hear it. Make me grin every time.
#30
my 2000 UC has EFI and a 103. it will fall to about 850 rpms and lope, but i've been looking at a 2002 fatboy with carb for the wife...this thing sounds like the old harleys i used to hear when i was young...back in the 60s... sounds great.....