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From: Connecticut
stone stock Evo 100, maybe 105. Shovel, about 110, TC 96'' limited to 115. Not stock sporty 135
All depends on bike maintenance, and how stony your ***** are. Any which way, I'd not do sustained high speeds ( over 80) 2 up on anything other than a modern bike.
All depends on bike maintenance, and how stony your ***** are. Any which way, I'd not do sustained high speeds ( over 80) 2 up on anything other than a modern bike.
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From: Arkansas
To quote Ralph Nader.
A motorcycle is, "unsafe at any speed".
I have no clue how fast mine will go and really don't care
Now that I've interjected something that has zero relevance to your question, I will get hold of a buddy of mine that is a retired CHP Motor and was still working in the 90's and ask him how fast he would run his.
I do know that he beat the **** out of his work motors and still rides like a lunatic.
I'll let you know what he says.
A motorcycle is, "unsafe at any speed".
I have no clue how fast mine will go and really don't care
Now that I've interjected something that has zero relevance to your question, I will get hold of a buddy of mine that is a retired CHP Motor and was still working in the 90's and ask him how fast he would run his.
I do know that he beat the **** out of his work motors and still rides like a lunatic.
I'll let you know what he says.
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Griz
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This really does come down to a specific bike, it’s set up, gearing and modifications. Even stock, when things are perfect as op suggests would be different than stock using assembly line tolerances. As 98hotrodfatboy mentioned.. my Hardtail Shovel 93” has done 140 in a pack of crotch rockets down I-71 for 45 min durations. I’ll add I was 30 something and not 50 something… even then, my eyes were vibrating in my head to the watery point things were blurry with goggles and my mind uncomfortably dwelt on each and every bolt I ever torqued on my chassis and every spoke I ever trued. Pride.. ok stupidity can make you do unreasonable things. But every guy in that pack was amazed and in awe with me from them on. Once they new they couldn’t just pull away from the Harley the respect went way up and I became an anomaly dare I say legend to them. It was rewarding when they would talk with other rocket rider and defend me, brag about me to others. That was cool but stupid.
They saw knees down through what became twistiest at speeds excess of 100mph through the north side of Columbus Ohio on 71. Some of those guys knew me in my twenties on a 900rr and said I either have gotten to be a better rider or Harley is more bike than they knew.
93 Shovel is 11.7:1 mechanical, 47T rear wheel gear, 3 gears through the quarter. Bikes been painted and together in one form or another for over 27 years. I don’t know about an FX chassy personally but it’s got to be better than a cobbled tractor welded hardtail.
They saw knees down through what became twistiest at speeds excess of 100mph through the north side of Columbus Ohio on 71. Some of those guys knew me in my twenties on a 900rr and said I either have gotten to be a better rider or Harley is more bike than they knew.
93 Shovel is 11.7:1 mechanical, 47T rear wheel gear, 3 gears through the quarter. Bikes been painted and together in one form or another for over 27 years. I don’t know about an FX chassy personally but it’s got to be better than a cobbled tractor welded hardtail.
Last edited by Rains2much; Oct 21, 2022 at 07:04 AM.
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