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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 11:10 AM
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Mreed,you never cease to amaze me
 
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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 11:21 AM
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Mreed,you never cease to amaze me
Thank you sir!
 
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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 12:52 PM
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wow Dude As always Amazing!

Why is it your doing every project that i wanna do when i get older and have the income?
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 01:07 AM
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Just saw this thread for the first time tonite.

Very cool!

When I was laid up in bed back in 2010, not knowing if I was going to walk unassisted again, I bought one of those trike axles and a Dyna that has been laid down.

Was gonna build a trike.

Have since sold both.

But your pics bring back a lot of good memories of all the pain-killer induced plans I had of building a tricked out old school trike...that is a lot of what kept me going when I could not even get out of bed to go to the bathroom!

Really looking forward to your progress on this project! COOL COOL COOL!
 
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 03:55 AM
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Mike when do you find the time to sleep! LOL

Looks great so far, and although I'm not usually a trike guy, I prefer to the drop seat!

Look forward to the progress reports
 
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 12:29 PM
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How's the trike coming along?
 

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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 02:21 PM
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Any progress reports?
If I ever get back to IN (moved from there years ago) I'll drop by and have a beer with ya!
More pics!
 
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 03:06 PM
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Love to see your work no matter what it is, and I'm prob. in the minority here, but I HATE trikes. Can't imagine anything more worthless. I would seriously ride some sort of scooter or "fiddy" before mounting a trike. That said, not hatin' on your project / decision if you can buy that. Awesome work.
 
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Old Mar 7, 2012 | 03:55 PM
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I have other bikes I'm trying to get finished before spring so I took this one to my storage building for now. The trike is so big I had to get it out of the way to work on anything else!

It's not a Nightster though...not sure how that came about. When it was a drop seat I had an 03 1200 in there but now that it's the way it is I will be using a 4sp 1100 from 86. I don't plan on drag racing this one lol.


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Love to see your work no matter what it is, and I'm prob. in the minority here, but I HATE trikes. Can't imagine anything more worthless. I would seriously ride some sort of scooter or "fiddy" before mounting a trike. That said, not hatin' on your project / decision if you can buy that. Awesome work.
I've seen a few of your posts lately and no matter how you jazz it up you still come across like a dick. Not hating though...see, you can't take offense because I stated that I'm not hatin' on you.
 
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Originally Posted by mreed
It's not a Nightster though...not sure how that came about.
Me neither. My fingers must have been moving faster than my brain.
 
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