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Old 03-05-2020, 12:12 PM
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You had some nice putters there Mark. I love the old FLH's and I'm a sucker for Knuckle's, Pan's, and Shovels. My buddy has a nice 66 FLH that looks similar to yours, and he has a few other early bikes including a 36 which is Uber rare.

Myself, I live 10 miles outside the nearest city, so for me, there are no traffic lights around. Hang a couple of lefts or a couple of rights and my face is in the wind. If I head 20 miles SW of my place, I'm entering the Rocky Mountains here in western Canada. Hwy 40 through Kananaskis is gorgeous and there aren't many places that give you that feeling of freedom as you head up to the pass at 7200' and down the other side on a 175-mile loop. Gotta keep your head on a pivot nowadays, and when you're not watching out for cars, your watching for animals cause they'll wreck you just as bad when you're cruising through their domain. Still fun to get out and ride...just have to use enough common sense to out-think all the lick-tards around us. That and I avoid city riding for the most part. Here are a couple of my rides...former and current. The first shot is from a ride we did in the fall of 2019 to Waterton Parks. About 90 minutes south of my place.


Waterton Parks 2019. 103" Stage 3 Sleeper


Trip down the west coast back in 2009. 120" Performance Bagger


My old hot rod. 124" of pure nastynous. Would smoke the tires for 150' anytime / anywhere

If you know Harley's and the engine performance side of things, you see a common denominator on the 3 bikes I posted pictures of. Each of them has a D&D pipe on them, the first sign of the bike not being stock as these are the best 2 into 1 header pipes made for those who love big cams, high compression, and ported heads. The flamed bagger was 124" R&R stroker and made 132 hp with 124 ft-lbs of tire-shredding torque. I could keep up to Gixxer's with that bike and topped it out more than a few times at an undisclosed mph where the needle would be buried. I have a thing for horsepower and often enough have trouble leaving anything stock.
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