My bike arrived early!
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RE: My bike arrived early!
ORIGINAL: kwb
Thanks guys.
Picked up the bike on sat and road 60 miles, then today (Sunday) took her for a long awsome ride - 220 miles.... But before I did that - I had to get rid of some of the gold! I took the gold tank badge off (heat gun, fishing line, 3M adhesive remover and about 10 minutes - and a nice coat of wax). Much better now, I don't think I could ride it another mile with that gold badge on there, I'd actually like to remove the Gold pin striping too... but I have a delima with doing that.
I noticed soething interesting - at about 120 miles on the odometer the bike suddenly started running much stronger, pulled hard through all the gears (I didn't wrap on it too hard).
I love the bike - but just don't care for the gold acccents, but I still bought the right bike for me. I wanted a Fat Boy and the 95" factory motor, polished wheels and the few other things out weighed the gold trim.
Do you guys think it would be "ruining" the bike if I were to remove (color sand, or repaint) over the gold pin striping on the fenders and tank? It is "an aniversary edition" and the black and gold combo is what Harley chose for the bike...[sm=smiley25.gif]
What do you think??
Thanks guys.
Picked up the bike on sat and road 60 miles, then today (Sunday) took her for a long awsome ride - 220 miles.... But before I did that - I had to get rid of some of the gold! I took the gold tank badge off (heat gun, fishing line, 3M adhesive remover and about 10 minutes - and a nice coat of wax). Much better now, I don't think I could ride it another mile with that gold badge on there, I'd actually like to remove the Gold pin striping too... but I have a delima with doing that.
I noticed soething interesting - at about 120 miles on the odometer the bike suddenly started running much stronger, pulled hard through all the gears (I didn't wrap on it too hard).
I love the bike - but just don't care for the gold acccents, but I still bought the right bike for me. I wanted a Fat Boy and the 95" factory motor, polished wheels and the few other things out weighed the gold trim.
Do you guys think it would be "ruining" the bike if I were to remove (color sand, or repaint) over the gold pin striping on the fenders and tank? It is "an aniversary edition" and the black and gold combo is what Harley chose for the bike...[sm=smiley25.gif]
What do you think??
I did the same to my bike the second day I had it, the gold tank emblem is just too much.
I think that maintaining your Annv model with the original gold pinstrips and accents is only important if you are planning on selling it.
I replaced my Timing cover (annv) with a different one, Derby, handlebars, exhaust, mirrors ect and am keeping all of the original parts in case I want to sell it and the Anniversary stuff is needed to increase the price.
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It's a Harley change what you want to make it your own.
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