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From: Honah Lee
Old guys, what model is this? Obviously, a 56 FL motor but would a Panhead motor even been on a 48 (year I was born) Other pictures in my album..
https://www.hdforums.com/g/album/5062701
https://www.hdforums.com/g/album/5062701
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oh, the memories. lol
I had a buddy who had a HD with seriously extend forks. I can't tell you how many times he'd pull up to a red light, forget to put his foot down, and promptly fall over. We'd all have to stop and help him pick it up, his girlfriend would get on, and he'd ride away leaving us standing in the intersection. lol
I think the problems that I have sometimes with my right knee is directly related to the thousands of times I kicked start my old 56 Panhead. It was a cool bike but a bear to start on a hot day.
I had a buddy who had a HD with seriously extend forks. I can't tell you how many times he'd pull up to a red light, forget to put his foot down, and promptly fall over. We'd all have to stop and help him pick it up, his girlfriend would get on, and he'd ride away leaving us standing in the intersection. lol
I think the problems that I have sometimes with my right knee is directly related to the thousands of times I kicked start my old 56 Panhead. It was a cool bike but a bear to start on a hot day.
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A good friend and I were on a "run" and took a set of railroad tracks at speed ( he was on a Triumph rigid ) it got ugly. After we gathered up all the "stuff" we realized the lower neck bearings were everywhere but where they were supposed to be. We "liberated" a shopping cart and took one of the casters apart ( to get the ball bearings ) and after a couple of hours we were, as Willie would say, back on the road again.
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When I got in my first club in the early 70s, they introduced me to "an old guy"...probably 40-45 years old, that could balance our flywheels and install the rods and do all of the technical stuff we couldn't.
I wonder whatever happened to him?
I wonder whatever happened to him?
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Old guys, what model is this? Obviously, a 56 FL motor but would a Panhead motor even been on a 48 (year I was born) Other pictures in my album..
https://www.hdforums.com/g/album/5062701
https://www.hdforums.com/g/album/5062701
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Yeah.. those old gray guys had all the answers. I took a rim and hub and a box of spokes and nipples to an old timer out in the country and watched slack-jawed while he laced it up and trued it on a home-made stand all the while talking and telling jokes and spitting skoal into a coal bucket by the stove. Took him no time. I gave him 5 dollars and the rest of my pack of Camels.
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Yeah.. those old gray guys had all the answers. I took a rim and hub and a box of spokes and nipples to an old timer out in the country and watched slack-jawed while he laced it up and trued it on a home-made stand all the while talking and telling jokes and spitting skoal into a coal bucket by the stove. Took him no time. I gave him 5 dollars and the rest of my pack of Camels.