Happiness is...
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Happiness is...
discovering your new-to-you bike isn't as stock as you thought.
Lurking under the stock air filter cover was a stage-1 intake. Cool! We won't talk about the various bits and bobs that had fallen off and made a mess.
Wonder what else isn't stock on that bike. I'm having fun fantasizing about it already having gear driven cams or such. Who knows.
Lurking under the stock air filter cover was a stage-1 intake. Cool! We won't talk about the various bits and bobs that had fallen off and made a mess.
Wonder what else isn't stock on that bike. I'm having fun fantasizing about it already having gear driven cams or such. Who knows.
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...then one day you decide to race your buddy..him with a brand new CVO Street Glide...as the light turns green, you both snap your throttles full-on...as the smoke clears from the burning rubber..you realize you are taking off in a full wheelie...looking at him, far behind you, in the rear view mirror,.... you realize why, as you were rolling the bike out of his garage, the old timer who sold it to you said.."if you ever DO have the urge to goose that throttle...I STRONGLY advise you to hold on TIGHT!"....
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To double the hope/fantasay/delusion, when I took this bike out for a test ride, I thought it hit a good bit harder than the one other Road King I'd test ridden. Could all be in my head, and that's fine. But, maybe....
I'll learn more shortly. The next thing I was planning on doing with the bike was removing the cover to check on the cam tensioners. That should tell me some things.
It was amusing trying to figure out the filter situation. I'm a total newbie to Harley's so I didn't know it wasn't oem stock at first. Wasn't until I was at a swap meet looking at parts and stuff that I realized my air filter looked like those stage one thingies.
I'll learn more shortly. The next thing I was planning on doing with the bike was removing the cover to check on the cam tensioners. That should tell me some things.
It was amusing trying to figure out the filter situation. I'm a total newbie to Harley's so I didn't know it wasn't oem stock at first. Wasn't until I was at a swap meet looking at parts and stuff that I realized my air filter looked like those stage one thingies.
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I understand completely. I also bought a new to me bike.. 2008 RK, junk yard special, rebuilt title ?? Just took the air filter cover off and a Stage 1 setup. 
Sweet, also Supertrapp slip ons.....getting it tuned on Thursday supposed to be 51 degrees outside yea!! Hoping to cut the engine temp down I have read getting the fuel down can lower engine temps 80 to 100 degrees...
Sweet, also Supertrapp slip ons.....getting it tuned on Thursday supposed to be 51 degrees outside yea!! Hoping to cut the engine temp down I have read getting the fuel down can lower engine temps 80 to 100 degrees...
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It has always been my experience that surprises with a used vehicle purchase are universaly negative. I am glad that this is not true for you.
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It's an 04 Road King. It was an ebay auction from a local dealer. I got to look the bike over before bidding. No idea if the dealership actually knows anything of the history of the bike, but since all they could do was lie when they did speak, I wouldn't have paid any attention to anything they said. They were so bad it was almost comical, almost.
Like when they said the horn switch was broken so the horn didn't work. I pointed out that actually the horn was missing, and that was probably why it wasn't working. They insisted it was a switch problem.
Oh, and Harley's don't come with keys, and no they can't get a set for me.
Like when they said the horn switch was broken so the horn didn't work. I pointed out that actually the horn was missing, and that was probably why it wasn't working. They insisted it was a switch problem.
Oh, and Harley's don't come with keys, and no they can't get a set for me.