Notice the caption, their "sweaters" bear the club logo.
Posted on 05/09/2010 8:30:52 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
A Hells Angel who was shot dead in a gunfight has gone for one last ride on his beloved Honda - his destination beyond the grave.Friends helped Puerto Rican David Morales Colon, from San Juan, fulfil his last wish - to be buried with his bike - after the 22-year-old lost his life in a shootout last week.
Funeral directors embalmed the body, dressed him in jeans, shoes, a jacket and a hat and put sunglasses on him to cover his eyes.
They then used hidden supports to put the corpse on the bike for the wake - with his hand gunning the throttle and body crouched over the fuel tank, to mimic his stance when riding at speed.
Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell album was played at the funeral.
His uncle Jose Torres said: "He went out as he wanted." A video of Mr Colon, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on his bike
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Good info for anyone contemplating taking up necrophilia.
Thanks, that makes sense, and it fits my personal belief in not being locked into Harleys.
I am a member of an international, beer drinking, (mostly, not officially) biker organization dedicated to beer drinking, breasts, and naked women, and of course the Angels had to approve of our patch.
We have a few non Harley riders, but that bike of his would not have been his primary club bike would it?
Booze Fighters?
Notice the caption, their "sweaters" bear the club logo.
>>The defacto prohibition on foreign (to us) motorcycles doesn’t exist outside of the U.S. chapters.
PR is technically part of the US, so ... I wonder how that works?
Now towns beg us to have our “Bike Nights” there so local businesses can suck up our bucks.
Ya don’t see many “sweaters with logos”, though....:)
I think it’s safe to say that the PR chapter of the Angels doesn’t require a Harley.
Yes, but I don’t think you’ll find Puerto Ricans in the Hell’s Angels. Unless they’ve dropped their Nazi subtext.
Harley; been there, done that, not repeating. Honda forever.
There is a PR chapter of the Angels. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that it’s populated by Peurto Ricans. In NZ for example, you’ll find Maori Angels. The club adapts as it crosses borders.
My first 2 street bikes were Hondas. Then I owned a Suzuki, then another Honda. Bought my first Harley, and I’m now on my 5th. I can’t imagine ever wanting a Honda again.
Wow, I had no idea. I thought once the body went stiff, it remained that way. Thanks.
Ever ride a Valkyrie, a Gold Wing or an ST? I had a Harley as a teenager and that was enough. I realize their quality is better now, but they aren’t as comfortable or as high performance as the Japanese or German makes. I currently ride a 97 Valkyrie (manufatured in Ohio BTW) and its the best riding experience I’ve had to date.
I kinda like the Rune. My sole ride on it was fun, but truth to tell, I wouldn't own one. If someone gave me one, I'd sell it and buy a chopper with an air-cooled V-twin. It's not a brand thing. I hold the V-Rod in the same contempt.
I'm no fan of the Wing at all. Fairings and screens are just the antithesis of what I consider to be a good ride. Probably exactly what the average winger thinks of my ape hangers and leather bags.
I really have to STRONGLY disagree with you on comfort. Harley's strength is and always has been the high degree of customization. Want the pegs 3 more inches forward or back? No problem, huge aftermarket. I asked the guy at the Kawasaki dealership recently if the forward controls on the Meanstreak could be moved to a mid control position, and the answer was a flat, "No." That kind of thing just doesn't exist in the Harley world. You can do whatever you want.
Performance is lost on me. My bike is much faster than I am. Theoretical speed based on the SE ignition and gearing is about 145. I took it to 120 once and backed off. Anything over 90 is absolutely pointless to me. With 80lbs of torque at 2500rpm's I have more acceleration than I'll ever use, so why would I want more?
Btw, the Marysville, OH plant is closed now. All Hondas are now 100% imported.
There’s no black hells angels. there’s no mexican hells angels. This guy was puerto rican and I seriously doubt he was a hells angel.
btw, hells angels are bigger in canada and scandinavia than they are in america...places where people are predominately white.
I have a superglide and i have to agree...plenty of power.
I MIGHT be able to make use of a 15-20% bump in power(i have an 88”) but it wouldn’t be utilized very often, that’s for sure. I’ve had mine up to 115 and that’s just silly. anything over 100mph is pointless especially if you have no windshield or fairing, which I don’t and dont want. I did have to change my handlebars to go that fast tho. With the stock bars I got a weave at about 85. I switched to a narrower set of bars and the weave disappeared. I took the bars off a 2000(i think) sportster-sport...it was only made a few years. Pretty soon I’m going to bore it out to a 4-1/8” bore, but keep the stock 4” stroke...then probably get rid of my high performance cams and go with a cam profiled for torque, and switch to a larger front pulley to drop RPMs @ 75MPH freeway speed. A harley motor feels/sounds better at low RPMs
Wow, that’s almost exactly the path that I’ve taken with my Sporty. At one time I had a real hopped up build with domed pistons, Screamin’ Eagle cams, Cobra open pipes and the SE ignition. It was way more than I needed or even wanted.
Currently it’s built around 1250cc dished pistons, Nalin N2 cams, Screamin’ Eagle mufflers and I kept the ignition but never get close to increased redline. Added an oil cooler just to keep it as cool as possible and changed the gearing on the final drive from 25t to 27t to bring down the RPM’s on the highway.
That’s okay... I love ‘em all, but I never miss a chance to bark out a wisecrack. ;>)
I have had good fortune and great times with my bikes.
I traded off our 2000 Ultra Classic about 2 months ago, using it toward the purchase of a new Tundra. I will keep the 2002 Road King Classic for now, but because of health issues and age, I have had to slow way down on riding .
The last time I went on a run was 3 years ago, right before my heart surgery. We took the RK... and during a 30 day vacation, we crossed the USA and back, putting on over 9,000 trouble free miles.
I miss those days, but I have adjusted to other passions. Now we will be traveling in my Tundra pulling an Airstream trailer.... it’s not the same and I will no doubt envy my dog when he sticks his head out the window at 70 mph. ;>) Harley’s forever.
SE ignition actually hurts performance. Not many harley riders know this...and the dealership clowns don’t know jack.
SE ignition was designed to prevent detonation and overheating in a bored out motor with high compression pistons and high flow air cleaner. To do this they RETARD the spark timing. That hurts performance, but saves your engine.
The proper way to go would be dual plug heads, an oil cooler, and advanced spark timing...then run real good quality gas and octane booster if necessary.
The bozos at the dealership sold me their stupid SE ignition module and a carb kit to richen the fuel mixture and a set of high rpm horsepower cams. Then I couldn’t figure out why I kept getting fouled plugs and sooty mufflers. I almost never run the motor above 4500RPMs so the cams they sold me are absolutely worthless, as was the ignition module. The solution was to lean out the carb with a new needle, dump the worthless SE ignition, and add an oil cooler.
and another thing, I would never go with their stroker flywheels. Just bore it out. I think you can go all the way up to 4-3/16ths bore(110cid) if you ream your cases...that’s twincam cases i’m talking about. I don’t know about sportsters. they probably max out around 1300cc with stock cases and stock stroke. Don’t ever buy their SE heads either, or pay someone to enlarge the valves in your heads...it don’t do jack for torque.
For people like us that really only care about low rpm torque, there’s no replacement for displacement...and racing cams and racing pipes actually decrease low rpm torque, not increase.
one word of caution though...a high torque motor and a bike geared for low RPMs on the highway is a recipe for a fried clutch. You might find you will need to upgrade your clutch.
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