I test rode a Super Glide....

kawman14733 wrote: i always tell everybody when they like it its the nicest looking piece of shit iv seen all day.what a hunk of crap. rest in peace buddy but i had to say it

:laugh:

The things we do for the ones we love.... your a good freind for looking after his baby.

Maybe you could throw that v-twin boat anchor away and have Larry C. build you a real engine for it?

.

Kawman,

Those drag pipes are f*&^%# loud! My brother has a 50's pan head with S&S internals and cams. Drag pipes about as long as that bike, they just bark like crazy. When we take the bikes out I need ear plugs just following him around town. On the highway I make him stay behind me.

Tyler wrote: Well apples aren't oranges either...

Look HD makes nice bikes, but very differnt bikes from what most people that frequent this site like to ride. People that really like to "drive" motorcycles feel the shortcommings of the chunky cruisers. The big raod bikes I find very smooth and comfortable, HD has really come along way in the last 20 years. But the price tag is REDICULOUS.

The street bobs and sportsters, on the other hand, are pretty lacking in alot of ways. And the price is still nuts. The screaming eagle Night Rod it a nice looking bike that will haul ass, but agian you have to pay to play with HD.

From a durability, cost, and performance stand point, there is a reason that police bike you drive was built for so many years. Just imagine if HD still built the same crap they made in the Late 70's... not a chance. The competiton between the Japaneese manufacturers in the 70's and 80's produced some of the best bikes ever, others got left far behind and held on to nostalgia. Just the way it is.

hey whats wrong with nostalgia? :woohoo:
remember most of us are riding 30 plus year old bikes,hell i think the oldest car ive got parts for is like a 1914 model T! :laugh:
im sure the kids over on the gsxr forum are talking about what a bunch of hard headed dinosaur riding fools we are also! :woohoo:

kawman14733 wrote: my best friend passed away 3 years ago , he was a harley freak he got the bike of his dreams /put his heart and soul into it..i bought it becouse he owned it and i dident want to see it get trashed. i ride it 2 times a year on rides for him..i always tell everybody when they like it its the nicest looking piece of shit iv seen all day.what a hunk of crap. rest in peace buddy but i had to say it,

Nice story, nice friend!!
It was my 30th anniversary this month for buying my 1975 FLH Dresser. April of 81
Had a KZ900 then and still do. Don't drive much anymore though.
I have put it back to 95% original, I am almost there.
This is what it looked like from the factory, Mine has black bags and a Mustang seat.

Wrong picture, that KZ car tire roller is for sale also.
I need more pics of the flh

ive got no problems with differant bikes,its mostly the little short dicks riding bikes of all brands that get me.
i can just ignore the tatooed guys trailering their bikes to sturgis,its the wolf packs full of sportbikes that usually piss me off the most! :laugh:

hey whats wrong with nostalgia? :woohoo:
remember most of us are riding 30 plus year old bikes,hell i think the oldest car ive got parts for is like a 1914 model T! :laugh:
im sure the kids over on the gsxr forum are talking about what a bunch of hard headed dinosaur riding fools we are also! :woohoo:

Hey I am one of those kids... Crap! I am turning 30 this summer. :S My Kaws are older than I am. I had Ninja, GS1100, and a V-max for a short time. Some off raod stuff too. I have been riding since I got a YZ-80 for my 6th birthday. Don't know what it is about these 2-valve kawis, but I am just drawn to them. I felt like a kid in a candy store when I bought a 1300 last year. Must have some kind of fetish or something....:blush:

My point was that HD goes out of thier way to build bikes that look, sound, and drive like they did 50 years ago. The other manufacuturers have evolved.

z1kzonly,

My brother has that same front end on his '53 pan, think he stole the swing arm form the same bike. Now I know what it came off of. Rides very nice for an old bike.

Proxy is right, we are all brothers with two wheels down on the pavement. We all love to ride and most of us do respect the other guy just because he is a biker, and we therefore have a common bond. But that said: to quote Tyler, Harley HAS become a "pagan cult religion for brain dead trend humping fashion lemmings." Just because a person rides a Harley doesn't make them elite. Just because your entire wardrobe has a HD logo doesn't make you special. A lot of the lemmings are just buying into the mass hysteria that is Harley Davidson. As far as the crotch rockets go, I just don't get it. We all need to respect each other, but the brand rivalry will never end.

I hear you. I love to ride and I will get on anything with two wheels.

Its fun to jab at some people though. Weather its the crazy idiots in swarms of rice rockets, the yuppie Harley dorks, or the stuborn brit endlessly kicking over his Nortorn becasue the starter never worked... its all good.

Light the fires and spin the tires!:evil:

I like just about anything that scares the #%@$ out of me, two wheels or one!

For real riding, a smooth 4 cant be beat, but for bar hoping and short blasts a gnarly chopper is the way to go, especially on one wheel!

Cheers.

I ride with a rather large group of people, from HD Street Glides and Dyna's to GSXR's and old RZ350's, Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 with side car, hell another guy is pure Brit and rides a Norton 750 commando and a Triumph Bonnie. VTX's and Star 1100's n 1700's. My dad has a Shadow 750 and a Nighthawk S750....Ya know what, we all ride together and never bash anyones bikes. It's actually fun.

Would I give up my trusty KZ750 for any of them....HELL NO. I love my Kawi's