EVO Questions...
"So enjoy your Evo! And when sitting at a stoplight next to a bud on a Twin Cam you can look over and just see him thinking, "Wow, so that's what a Harley is supposed to sound like."
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I really enjoyed reading your post. Especially this last part mainly because I can remember as a kid seeing my Uncles (who rode with some pretty tough customers that I won't mention) all riding Evos and Shovels that sounded completely different than the Twin Cams do today. I can remember (like you said) all those guys wrenching on their bikes cause they knew what they were doing and they enjoyed doing it. I fired it up for the first time the other night and it was instant memory flash back to child hood and my original first love for a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. I have a Dyna that I ride almost everyday but it doesn't sound and will never be the same as those old bikes.
[/quote]I really enjoyed reading your post. Especially this last part mainly because I can remember as a kid seeing my Uncles (who rode with some pretty tough customers that I won't mention) all riding Evos and Shovels that sounded completely different than the Twin Cams do today. I can remember (like you said) all those guys wrenching on their bikes cause they knew what they were doing and they enjoyed doing it. I fired it up for the first time the other night and it was instant memory flash back to child hood and my original first love for a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. I have a Dyna that I ride almost everyday but it doesn't sound and will never be the same as those old bikes.
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>>"they are getting old enough that some dealers will not work on them..."<<
Find yourself a dealer with mechanics who didn't graduate from MMI last week, lol! There's a damn good reason the MoCo still sells brand new '99 model year Evo motors (which you'd think would mean they should still service them) as homebuilders love them and 99% of the custom bike aftermarket is built around them. Roll up to a dealer on your Panhead looking for service and the same thing will happen. But there are plenty of Indies around who know how to keep these engines running.
If you look at reliability and ease of maintenance I think the Evo is the best engine the MoCo ever produced. In engine lineage terms it's the Shovelhead perfected. In engine esoteric terms I beleive it's a Moco engine with roots that still reach back to that wooden shed in Milwaukee. I'm not one that thinks the MoCo deliberately made the Twin Cams more dealer maintenance and repair dependent in order to drive more business into their repair bays. That was inevitable as the majority of today's 30 YO men are mechanically crippled anyway. You also have newer government standards for noise and emissions and market researchers and bean counters who worried customer might ask, "What the hell is a carburetor?"
Plus the MoCo needed a bigger engine to appeal to customers who shop horsepower (yes, we really are running out of Harley or nothing types.) And their newer touring bikes are getting a bit heavier but on a lighter weight custom bike even an otherwise stock Evo with a good carb setup and free flowing pipes works just fine. I could go on for awhile, but software downloads (maps) on a Harley? EFI? Limp mode? Parade mode? Trouble codes? We used to carry a few hand tools in a pouch now people carry a credit card and an AAA membership card, lol! Most of my younger friends do have Twin Cams they seem happy with but they also like fake **** on a woman. And truly most of the troubles I see with Evos stem simply from being totally starved of maintenance.
So enjoy your Evo! And when sitting at a stoplight next to a bud on a Twin Cam you can look over and just see him thinking, "Wow, so that's what a Harley is supposed to sound like."
Find yourself a dealer with mechanics who didn't graduate from MMI last week, lol! There's a damn good reason the MoCo still sells brand new '99 model year Evo motors (which you'd think would mean they should still service them) as homebuilders love them and 99% of the custom bike aftermarket is built around them. Roll up to a dealer on your Panhead looking for service and the same thing will happen. But there are plenty of Indies around who know how to keep these engines running.
If you look at reliability and ease of maintenance I think the Evo is the best engine the MoCo ever produced. In engine lineage terms it's the Shovelhead perfected. In engine esoteric terms I beleive it's a Moco engine with roots that still reach back to that wooden shed in Milwaukee. I'm not one that thinks the MoCo deliberately made the Twin Cams more dealer maintenance and repair dependent in order to drive more business into their repair bays. That was inevitable as the majority of today's 30 YO men are mechanically crippled anyway. You also have newer government standards for noise and emissions and market researchers and bean counters who worried customer might ask, "What the hell is a carburetor?"
Plus the MoCo needed a bigger engine to appeal to customers who shop horsepower (yes, we really are running out of Harley or nothing types.) And their newer touring bikes are getting a bit heavier but on a lighter weight custom bike even an otherwise stock Evo with a good carb setup and free flowing pipes works just fine. I could go on for awhile, but software downloads (maps) on a Harley? EFI? Limp mode? Parade mode? Trouble codes? We used to carry a few hand tools in a pouch now people carry a credit card and an AAA membership card, lol! Most of my younger friends do have Twin Cams they seem happy with but they also like fake **** on a woman. And truly most of the troubles I see with Evos stem simply from being totally starved of maintenance.
So enjoy your Evo! And when sitting at a stoplight next to a bud on a Twin Cam you can look over and just see him thinking, "Wow, so that's what a Harley is supposed to sound like."
Well said!!!
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