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Old Dec 12, 2021 | 10:03 PM
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Nice looking hard tail 76 i bet the seat spring has a kink in it
 
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I moved this discussion to here: https://www.hdforums.com/forum/shove...l#post20329195

Ya, those old timers sure had gumption. I took the seat post out of mine so it didn't stick up so high but I left the coil springs on there.
 

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