Kevin, very nice discourse. Thanx.

Here, and also quoted below the link:

https://www.hdforums.com/MemberRides...ide.asp?ID=189


I bought my Street Bob in November of 2005 and had to wait about 2 weeks for the dealer in North Carolina to ship it to Florida. I can honestly say that is the longest 2 weeks of my life. I had a Sportster that I loved and the new bike required me to sacrifice that bike. My wife had started to ride more and more and we were just a little too cramped when 2up on the Sporty. I wish I could have kept it, but once I got the Street Bob, I wasn't mourning for long. It's a great machine.

Over the first 11 months, I replaced the cables with the diamondbacks, lowered it, switched to LED lighting, went with the fat mini-apes and rewired internally, installed a black ceramic coated RB Racing 2-1 exhaust system with chrome heat shields, upgraded to the SE air cleaner, tinkered with the SERT, installed a tach, rigged up a homemade garage door opener, installed detachable sissy bar and pillion and I swapped out tons of little cosmetic things.

I was having a blast and my bike was starting to have its own unique look. I was really loving the contrast of the flat black paint and chrome. Those brushed lower fork sliders, the polished aluminum triple trees and the black brake hardware started to be a glaring mismatch with the rest of my bike. It was decision time . . . before spending a wad on my front end I needed to decide did I REALLY want a springer or was I just flapping my gums?

I decided I only wanted to do this with a factory front end. Not only does that shock look awesome, I didn't want my new 2006 bike to have any major aftermarket components. So it was time to do some research, but I came up empty. I got a lot of stuff like "anything's possible if you've got enough money", "springer won't work on a Dyna frame", but I never got any helpful information about the challenges I would face. So I decided I would try to find the parts and just go for it.

I got super lucky and found a complete springer from a 1996 Bad Boy that had been re-powder coated and looked like new. I posted some details of the conversion in a thread in the Dyna area so I won't rehash it here. Overall, it really wasn't that bad of a project and the results are better than I expected. The bike rides and handles great. Of course it's still a work in progress and I just can't afford to "finish" her right now. The definite items on the to do list are a custom seat, chrome rocker boxes and tappet blocks, chrome hardware all around, and then engine performance upgrades will be at the top of my list.

I made the changes to the bike that I like and I honestly had no idea if it would have any appeal to other people. Getting nominated for BOTM on HDForums was an unexpected compliment but to win it is a stunner. Thanks for the votes and the compliments throughout the month. If I had the means to own 5 bikes this nice, this month's group would be my dream fleet. I don't recall a more diverse set of bikes for BOTM and the other bikes have just as much thought and effort into them as mine and were just as worthy to win it.
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Thanks for posting this Mud, it was a great read!

 

No wonder it took so long for delivery. His dealer was in NC. It took me 10 minutes just to type this message.

 

Good read thanks Mudd, and thanks kpreese for spending the money so we could all enjoy your spring Bob, VERRRRRYYYYY NICCCCE

 

Bad *** bike, I love the look of the springers.Thanks for that post mud.

 

thanks...good read.....kpreese awesome springer bob

 

Been silent because I've been out of town. Thanks for the compliments on the bike. The Dyna guys don't always vote for Dynas (and I wouldn't want them to) but the support was awesome and is probably the reason I won. Toyrider, mudpuddle, RudeDog, stbob and others kept a thread bumped and drove lots of voters to the polls. Thanks guys!

I do need some help though . . . how the heck do I decide who to vote for in Feb's BOTM???

Kevin