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Road Master
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Iron Horse Magazine
Anyone here ever read Iron Horse magazine in the '90s when Dave Snow was the editor? Great stuff from a writer that knew and understood Harley history. The mag also featured columnists like Scott "Genghis" Wong and Flynch, etc. Not to be confused with "The Horse", which was (is) a pale comparison done by different people altogether.
Road Warrior
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Anyone here ever read Iron Horse magazine in the '90s when Dave Snow was the editor? Great stuff from a writer that knew and understood Harley history. The mag also featured columnists like Scott "Genghis" Wong and Flynch, etc. Not to be confused with "The Horse", which was (is) a pale comparison done by different people altogether.
Road Master
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Yes, I had been reading Iron Horse since it first came out and I still have almost all of the issues released. Great resourse of information in those old mags. I still keep up with The Horse as it is now and I go to the events that they put on because they are a freaking blast. As for the difference between the two mags, well it's Apples and Oranges, really. But it is still about the home builder. As for non-Harley Choppers, I really love to see some Chopped out British Steel sleds being featured in the mag and BTW, please tell me where else are your going to see that kind of stuff nowadays? Easyriders... HAHAHA, yeah right! I enjoy the creativity of the home builder no matter what engine they choose to use for their project and there really isn't any other mag out there that promotes that kind of stuff that I know of other than The Horse. The Horse may not be the most perfect Chopper mag out there but I don't know of any other mag that has the focus of the home builder as it's core.
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Used to grab it at the magazine rack all the time. Enjoyed reading it, had a bunch of copies around for years, but finally tossed them. Weren't they the ones that promoted "flip the patch" on the MoCo? Didn't they have a young lady that rode her bike all over the US and partied with people and wrote articles about it?
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Tourer
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XLCR nailed it.
The Horse might feature more chopped up Harleys if you could get an HD basket case for less than 3K...a rare find these days!
The Horse might feature more chopped up Harleys if you could get an HD basket case for less than 3K...a rare find these days!
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Road Warrior
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Yes, I had been reading Iron Horse since it first came out and I still have almost all of the issues released. Great resourse of information in those old mags. I still keep up with The Horse as it is now and I go to the events that they put on because they are a freaking blast. As for the difference between the two mags, well it's Apples and Oranges, really. But it is still about the home builder. As for non-Harley Choppers, I really love to see some Chopped out British Steel sleds being featured in the mag and BTW, please tell me where else are your going to see that kind of stuff nowadays? Easyriders... HAHAHA, yeah right! I enjoy the creativity of the home builder no matter what engine they choose to use for their project and there really isn't any other mag out there that promotes that kind of stuff that I know of other than The Horse. The Horse may not be the most perfect Chopper mag out there but I don't know of any other mag that has the focus of the home builder as it's core.
You can find basket case harleys for under $3K. you just have to put the effort in to find them. I picked up my girlfriends Sporty for $2,500. Although a little over $3K, My Softail avatar started out as a Heritage with a lot of accesories. I bought it for $6,300 then sold off over $1,500 worth of bags, chrome, paint set...etc. There is about $5K into it as it sits.
The picture is my old 69 Beezer chop. I sold it just about a year ago. I've owned it many years and passed it on to it's next happy owner. I just couldn't let it sit in the corner of my garage when someone else could be out enjoying it. I'm currently waiting to get my 1982 KZ750 frame back from getting a hardtail section welded on. That's my next project.
