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82tiburon
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It?s all good. I enjoy All different kinds of motorcycles for their idiosyncrasies --- the very reason most people hate them & just cling to one brand.
BTW, Sportsters ---which are my favorite Harleys --- have solid lifters, rather than hydraulics.
Which may explain why they dominated flat-track racing from it?s very roots until the sport all but died out.
The trick to removing that last offending rocker box bolt is to simply drill a small 5/16? hole through the frame backbone directly above the bolt --- which causes no undue stress whatsoever --- and?voila!... simply unthread & pull it out with a hex key.
Easy as pie.
Some other notes:
A) I did NOT use eye to eye ?chinese shocks made for a Harley?, but rather, eyelet to clevis units designed specifically for my GS.
B) At no point did I insult Japanese motorcycles or those who ride them (I came up on them myself) --- only what passed for decent metallurgy over there in the early days.
C) Neither of my Harleys is a 900 lb. rolling paperweight. They have both been extensively trimmed down with replacement aluminum parts where structurally-feasible, ?speed-holed? for further weight loss & I am constantly eyeing them for any excess fat that I can trim off.
In other words, they?re fast --- not loud.
But as I said before, I?m not a hater by any stretch of the imagination, but a lover of all things on two wheels that go ZOOOOOOOM!
BTW, Sportsters ---which are my favorite Harleys --- have solid lifters, rather than hydraulics.
Which may explain why they dominated flat-track racing from it?s very roots until the sport all but died out.
The trick to removing that last offending rocker box bolt is to simply drill a small 5/16? hole through the frame backbone directly above the bolt --- which causes no undue stress whatsoever --- and?voila!... simply unthread & pull it out with a hex key.
Easy as pie.
Some other notes:
A) I did NOT use eye to eye ?chinese shocks made for a Harley?, but rather, eyelet to clevis units designed specifically for my GS.
B) At no point did I insult Japanese motorcycles or those who ride them (I came up on them myself) --- only what passed for decent metallurgy over there in the early days.
C) Neither of my Harleys is a 900 lb. rolling paperweight. They have both been extensively trimmed down with replacement aluminum parts where structurally-feasible, ?speed-holed? for further weight loss & I am constantly eyeing them for any excess fat that I can trim off.
In other words, they?re fast --- not loud.
But as I said before, I?m not a hater by any stretch of the imagination, but a lover of all things on two wheels that go ZOOOOOOOM!