Strange guy
Elite HDF Member
Joined: Nov 2009
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From: MD just outside DC
Try being a girl when you meet those guys. They are even worse. I get sweetheart you should blah blah blah. Or are you sure you are ok riding alone.
Most fun I had with one of them was when I was at a gas station in ma. He was knee deep into a lecture when he explained he had been in ct at a bike night. I said really was it raining? He said no why. I said well I need to pass through there on my way home tonight. He then asked where home was. I said outside DC. He then said you are riding all the way there. Seemed that ended the lexture.
Most fun I had with one of them was when I was at a gas station in ma. He was knee deep into a lecture when he explained he had been in ct at a bike night. I said really was it raining? He said no why. I said well I need to pass through there on my way home tonight. He then asked where home was. I said outside DC. He then said you are riding all the way there. Seemed that ended the lexture.
Road Warrior
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 1,602
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From: Southeastern Michigan
to not upgrade your AC, pipes and either rejet your carb or do whatever it is you EFI guys do is leaving a lot of HP and performance just sitting there untapped for no good reason. all of them are very simple upgrades anyone can do in an afternoon. the bikes run lean as hell from the floor i don't know how you guys can stand it frankly. the bike will run ten times better with a high flow AC, decent pipes, and tuned properly.
i told a guy i work with once and only once because he genuinely had no idea the bikes come lean from the floor (or what lean was for that matter). i helped him out and replaced his intake gaskets, exhaust gaskets, high flow AC and rejetted his carb. he couldn't believe the difference in the way his bike rode.
i told a guy i work with once and only once because he genuinely had no idea the bikes come lean from the floor (or what lean was for that matter). i helped him out and replaced his intake gaskets, exhaust gaskets, high flow AC and rejetted his carb. he couldn't believe the difference in the way his bike rode.
Was his name babalu?
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Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 3,269
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From: NJ
You ran into the Softail Forum "LIVE"..........
I ran into one of THOSE guys at the gas station this morning, you know, very enthusiastic..... I was on my stock '08 Dresser and he pulls up on a Dyna Superglide all jazzed up with super loud pipes, cone air filter, all that stuff. He's yanking away on the throttle and screwing around with the idle screw trying to get it to idle before it farts out the air cleaner and quits. Then he goes on to tell me all the mods and cams, jets, larger carb and all that he's got on there and how he almost had it dialed in, all the horsepower and torque he was getting etc. I was suitably impressed until he started ragging on my bike with the stock a/c, ignition map and a new EPA SE pipe, how I need to download this and that, change to a big sucker blah blah blah.......I started my bike and got my helmet and gloves on while it settled into it's lumpy fast TC idle, said "see ya", dropped it in first and smoothly pulled away, no muss no fuss......
I don't know I just thought it was funny, him being so down on my stocker yet he couldn't even keep his "high performance" bike running...
I don't know I just thought it was funny, him being so down on my stocker yet he couldn't even keep his "high performance" bike running...
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2008
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From: South Texas
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Road Warrior
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,597
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From: South Jersey
I think I met that guy the other day at my local Indy. This guy's not talking TO me, he's talking AT me. And nonstop. Blah blah blah.....my old shovelhead, blah blah blah...my old dodge dart...blah blah blah. I couldn't get a word in edgewise. I finally just walked away from him while he's in mid sentence. I couldn't take it anymore.
