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I tend to keep bikes for a very long time. Sometimes a bike will be "done" for as long as ten years, and then I'll decide to change it.
My Night Train looked like this from 2005 until this summer.
This past spring I was restless and decided to use some parts I've had laying around. Plus, the upswept fishtails never had the low end I wanted, regardless of carb adjustment.
The bike runs too good right now to mess with, but I've got some SE heads, a cam and a big honking Mikuni sitting on a shelf somewhere. Probably not for a few years though.
My Sportster caused my wallet to haemorrhage cash constantly on the latest 'must have' that I didn't really need. In Winter time with curtailed riding opportunity the issue got worse as instead of riding I found myself leafing through the parts catalogue.
Whilst many pour scorn and berate the eye-watering prices of CVO models I upgraded to one and found my constant outlay has been reduced significantly as with immediate Stage 1 and pipes fitted before I took delivery it was more or less exactly as I wanted it shortly after it came out of the crate.
I do however have a current urge to do a ground up build depicted a bit like Omaha's above at some point.
Done.. Sure, many times. Completely done between mods. In fact I just ordered yesterday a RBM LSR 2:1, and a T-Max. Trying something different, again. Why? Tired of looking at and listening to the Venom Radius pipes.
I'm getting close to done......but keep running into another interesting item, lol. Will probably tinker for as long as I own the bike. I think it is just part of the passion!
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