Older Bikers, Remember when??
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From: Blairsville GA
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All the left legs of my jeans had oil stains from the chain oiler and the right boot had scuffs and cuts all over it from kick starting. Priming the amale carbs with a tickle and getting gas all over your fingers. Whelps on my face from getting his by bugs, no windshield then. Too old for that stuff now.
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From: Dirty Jersey
Jesus H. Christ I forgot about polarizing the generator. Or buying the adapter kit and running a generator off a VW. Or having my jiffy-stand vibrate right off my 76 Sportster and having to lean it against the tavern when I got there...Or making oil lines for the top end of my brothers shovel and not having them kink by filling the lines with salt, waxing the ends closed, then bending them...tombstone tail lights..gates of hell sissy bars...pulling off the front fender and then tieing bandannas across the forks when it rained so u could sort of see...straight 60 weight in cardboard cans...wow.
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From: Cornwall UK
I remember going into an old bike shop the owner was a dyed in the wool ex racer hardcore biker ( you know bits and bobs lying all over the place ) and asking if i could borrow a puller as i was rebuilding a Ducati engine. He looked at me pulled out the puller and uttered the immortal words "if you let me down and don,t return this puller i,ll never lend ***k all again". No money changed hands, only gratitude, and of course i returned the puller. RIP T.H.
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From: Southern Idaho
I still carry a John Wayne on my bike keyring, for nostalgia I guess.
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From: Acworth
I remember Harleys having a distributor that you controlled with the L/H handlebar grip- manuel spark advance, the clutch cable went to a thing we called a mousetrap before going to the transmission, Buddy seats with that huge spring that you had to engage to carry a passenger, voltage regulators that had points that would stick, Leaded gasoline- white tailpipes. 6 volt batterys, Loving smell of Castor oils, Snap on bubble shields for helmets.
Last edited by Mikey 1450; Aug 19, 2010 at 09:58 PM.