Rode to breakfast with some of my old degenerate biker buddies. Wife and I are riding to Marguerites for greasy chili-cheeseburgers and chili-fries tonight with a different group of equally degenerate bikers. October 1st and it is still in the 90s out here.
Oh, rode in shorts this morning, will probably be wearing them tonight.
Man, I hope Mary and I can get out next year and ride (and eat) some with you two!
How does she sound now with the canon's? More like a Harley should I bet.
Looken good...
You got that right. Love the sound. I wasn't interested in a performance upgrade. Heck, I'm an old man who drives a minivan and the stock performance suits me fine. But I wasn't crazy about the stock sound. The dealer had 2 Freewheelers side by side in the showroom, one with the canons and one with stock mufflers. He fired both up for me to hear and the difference in sound sold me. It's a nice deeper bass sound and it's not overwhelming when going down the road.
Cut off the end of the 2014 Stock slip-ons. Surprisingly small baffle, not surprisingly a real power robber, but I suppose a better try than some previous incarnations.
Final trip preps; 10K service, getting everything waterproofed (Orange cap spray at Walmart in the sporting goods section; a big 15 oz can for $6, works great, best price/quantity.) Tool bag sorted out. Going through the luggage and picking what goes and doesn't. An October jaunt from NW Ohio to southern Georgia, then Alabama and back is hard to predict what we'll need for clothes!
Putting on my "aux saddlebags"; these are fender bags from an ATV. Very handy, hold a ton of stuff, easily accessible, and they come off with no sign that they were there. A pic from last year's run to California:
Sorry about the sideways view.
I also finally broke down and paid the fifty bucks for the Harley shock air pump, and it does work better.
Oops, I just saw my cup holder, better get that on, too.
10-01-2015, 05:10 PM
