Loctite
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From: Carlsbad, CA
Clean the threads, and then blue should do. If you really don’t want to have to worry about it, and don’t care about extra aggravation if you ever have to remove it, then red. But, if you have anyone service your bike but you, and they need to pull the shifter to remove the primary cover,,,they’re gonna be pissed.
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From: Tulsa
There's not much on a bike that blue won't handle.
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From: New England
Red is really tough, but if you can get at it to heat it, it breaks easy enough. As redoilokie said, there's not much blue can't handle.
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Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 1,508
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From: N. Tx.
Blue will work fine.
A friend of my son inherited an old Sportster that he had to travel to San Fran to take possession of. The bike was in good running condition so he flew to SF and planned to ride the bike from Cali to DFW...mid summer.
A week or so later he pulled into town and stopped by so we could check out the bike. It was a mid 80's era and looked pretty much stock, other than a set of replacement pipes. A gawd awful ugly Purple tank.
He shared a funny story about riding across New Mexico at night when he had pulled into a gas station to fill up the peanut tank and found that his shift lever was gone. Not sure how me managed the shifting but he said he turned around and went back down the hiway until he found it.
When he stopped by he looked rode hard...dirty jeans & wife beater undershirt that he'd worn the entire trip, wind blown, and loving every minute of the adventure.
A friend of my son inherited an old Sportster that he had to travel to San Fran to take possession of. The bike was in good running condition so he flew to SF and planned to ride the bike from Cali to DFW...mid summer.
A week or so later he pulled into town and stopped by so we could check out the bike. It was a mid 80's era and looked pretty much stock, other than a set of replacement pipes. A gawd awful ugly Purple tank.
He shared a funny story about riding across New Mexico at night when he had pulled into a gas station to fill up the peanut tank and found that his shift lever was gone. Not sure how me managed the shifting but he said he turned around and went back down the hiway until he found it.
When he stopped by he looked rode hard...dirty jeans & wife beater undershirt that he'd worn the entire trip, wind blown, and loving every minute of the adventure.
