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Sep 18, 2009 | 05:14 PM

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will2002

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From: Texas

I'm just so glad that I could play a "small" part in your continuing education.

...... You're welcome!!!!

Sep 18, 2009 | 05:17 PM

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will2002

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JW1200

You paid way more for your bike than I paid for mine. And mine came with a thingy!!

Well,........ if 1200's have a "thingy", then I'M IN BUSINESS cause I got one of them too!

Sep 18, 2009 | 05:31 PM

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oct1949

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From: 40 miles Northeast of Indy..

I try follow this one pretty good as I do have Softail two.

Prototype Softy, 1972;
Someone said Yamma invented Softail thingy;

Softrail thingy's are hard to see.
Bill Davis saved MOCO by coming up with the softail thingy. So there really is one.

Now I find out its next to Ur dohicky thingamobob.

Sad to hear tourer don't got Thingy's. Now I wonder if they have a dohicky thingamobobs?
If so what could be next to it. Hope its not the ole Whatsamacallit..those thing were really out there by today standard..

Just maybe as stated someone got the brains and willing to make them...like ole Mr. Davis did when he started all this thingy thing..

I think we all need a softail for our thingy..

Sep 18, 2009 | 05:34 PM

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will2002

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A softail for our thingy?.......... I'll vote for that.

Sep 18, 2009 | 05:47 PM

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DannyZ71

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From: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

Quote:

Originally Posted by JW1200

You paid way more for your bike than I paid for mine. And mine came with a thingy!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by will2002

Well,........ if 1200's have a "thingy", then I'M IN BUSINESS cause I got one of them too!

Will, you're looking at this all wrong!!

You DON'T want a thingy. That is why you paid more for your bike. All thingys (or should that be thingies??) were painstakingly removed prior to your purchase!

Sep 18, 2009 | 05:50 PM

#26

trhayes76

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From: Northeast FL

Proud to not own a thingy...I think

Sep 18, 2009 | 05:53 PM

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pococj

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From: Texas! Ya mean there's someplace else?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harley_Dude

Bill Davis from Missouri came up with the idea, HD bought it. Helped save the MOCO.

The Springer is looking sweet IA.

He actually had the frame advertised in Easyrider for a spell back in the late '70s or early '80s (can't remember exactly when). The shocks they first used didn't work to well in the horizontal position. I think they had problems with them forming gas bubbles or something similar.

Sep 18, 2009 | 06:01 PM

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pococj

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Originally Posted by harley1425

Yamaha was the first to offer it for sale on the 1981 Viargo's. I worked for Yamaha then and they took the idea from the hardtail choppers and also from their first mono-shock motocross bikes.

Yamaha wasn't even close. Here's a couple early Vincents:

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