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To: Salamander

Thats what I meant, you have all that center mass metal to get the front wheel off the ground, then its pretty much all over IMO.

Building bikes is always a compromise of contradicting variables IMHO.


44 posted on 10/01/2008 12:19:08 AM PDT by valkyry1 (McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: valkyry1

That’s why I never cared for Sporties or Dressers.

They sit too high and are too “off balance” for my tastes.

The first bike of my own that I *loved* was a ‘93 Low Rider.

I felt centered and at one with it.

Then came the time for a newer bike and I got talked into a Softail which was not exactly my thing but I accepted it because it was a black-on-black-on-black Night Train.

*After* Himself bored it to 97” from stock 88, replaced the cams, heads and rockers with performance parts, then, I was happy.

[I still miss the Low Rider, though...it’s a sentimental thing]

I am overjoyed that Bobber style are making a comeback.

[more sentimentality because of the 60s ‘biker exploitation’ films] ....:))


56 posted on 10/01/2008 12:49:32 AM PDT by Salamander (The number of the beast is 0.)
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