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My first was a 58 Duo-Glide basket case that took about a year and several swap meets to put together. I don't have any pictures here, between divorce and a flood I lost most of my pictures. I will have to see if my family has pics of it. I've seen several of my old bikes in my moms photo albums.
I would love to have it back but at the time I was glad to see it go when I traded it on a 74 FXE. It seems I can't remember ever leaving home on the Duo but what I had to work on it to get back home. It's no wonder though, I was young and dumb and beat the hell out of it.
2009 Heritage Softail, it was a great bike. It was a dealer rental and I picked it up cheap. I rode it for 60,000 trouble-free miles and 7 years. Traded it in on a new SG and got almost what I paid for it. I would still have the bike but our rides now are all long distances, and I guess I got the touring bike bug.
First Harley was a 1980 Wide Glide. Damn, that thing was sexy!
It was also a piece of crap that the original owner must have been glad to get rid of! Factory misalignment between engine and trans caused all sorts of problems.....but I loved the way that thing looked!
That's funny my first was an oil leaking rat beat up 51 pan chopper I came into in 1976, hardtail with a raked neck and 12" over springer on it. Thankfully it wasn't reliable or it would have killed me.
Sorry but no pics , none survived the house fire in 82.
I have an album that's still boxed up, that has pictures of it when I got it and with transition shots. I'm just too lazy to look in a bunch of boxes looking for it. And if my club days too.
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