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So, buy a new bike. Go find a big dirt hole. Fill the hole with water and ride your new bike through the mud hole about eighteen times. I'm sure it won't look like a showroom fresh bike that way.
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From: swamp-east missouri
to refine my question, what do you do to your bike to make it your own, other than pick out products from the stealer? mine is ragged out and had a long life before it got to me, but i dont want a new/newer bike to look like a cookie cutter fresh out of the factory.
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Mine has some time and miles on it, and it shows...
I'm not **** about cleanliness, so if it gets dusty I'm not goin to suffer at all. I've owned probably at least 20 cars, and this is my third bike. I spent more time cleaning this one than I have all the rest combined. I don't plan on entering my bike into any shows, so it doesn't have to please anyone but me.
The chrome is showing it's age, and I have a few new parts that I haven't installed yet. I just can't seem to talk myself into letting the new chrome get any finger prints on it yet. As long as it is in the box, and the bike is running, I'll always have replacements when they are actually needed.
I'm pretty content with the way it runs right now, but I'll probably take some time during the summer to rebuild the top end. Summer here gets so humid, even night riding is unbearable at times. So, I'll use that time to do what most call 'winter upgrades'...
I'm not **** about cleanliness, so if it gets dusty I'm not goin to suffer at all. I've owned probably at least 20 cars, and this is my third bike. I spent more time cleaning this one than I have all the rest combined. I don't plan on entering my bike into any shows, so it doesn't have to please anyone but me.
The chrome is showing it's age, and I have a few new parts that I haven't installed yet. I just can't seem to talk myself into letting the new chrome get any finger prints on it yet. As long as it is in the box, and the bike is running, I'll always have replacements when they are actually needed.
I'm pretty content with the way it runs right now, but I'll probably take some time during the summer to rebuild the top end. Summer here gets so humid, even night riding is unbearable at times. So, I'll use that time to do what most call 'winter upgrades'...
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From: MN
I know what you mean
so i was at a local watering hole today, with my 94, non matching wheels, dented and chipped paint having sportster, when several very nice street glides, and various other baggers pulled in. as i walked past them to leave, i could not help but notice how nice they looked, but in a moment of ironic realization, i seemed to grow more appreciative of my quirky, spark knocking, dirty a$$ ride. some how, sitting next to those new and shiny bikes my gained personality. so i guess my question is, how do you give your bike personality? i am looking for a bigger bike to take on longer trips, but i dont want it to look like it just rolled off the showroom floor.
Kinda reminds me of an eye opening incident years ago. In the 90s, I lived in San Francisco, and was having some tranny work done on my FX at Dudley Perkins at their old Page Street locale.
This was in about '95...the shop and the used bike dept. were in the basement. You rode down a driveway into the basement. They had lots of 1 and 2 year old bikes there with all kinds of accessories, custom paint, etc. In for service was a 1969 FLH, all stock, that was just pulled out of some barn or something. Ugly green(but original paint)....guess which bike had a crowd around it. Yep. The unique one.