**Neat bike when I wasn’t working on it.**
My late cousin had a 57 or 58 hardtail HD with leather fringe saddlebags, back around 79. He hated it leaking oil everywhere. He took it apart in the mid 80s, reassembled it in his living room (never married), minus the oil. He said his back couldn’t stand riding it anymore.
He died 2 1/2 years ago from a spill, while riding a vespa knockoff, on a county road only a couple miles from his house (helmet would have saved him). People at a county park he was driving by heard the crash but saw no other traffic. They suspect he tried to miss a deer, which were known to frequent the park.
Btw, I never wore a helmet when I was younger. Helmets just weren’t cool. As I got older, looking down at the pavement going by, I started to see the pavement as a giant grinding wheel...lol. Helmets can be pretty cool after all.☺