Motorcycle Forum / General / Motorcycles / September 2007

OK...got the new battery in... turned the ignition key....lights come
on....flipped the kill switch to run...pushed the starter
button...turns over but not starting....turned ignition key back to
off...check the petcock, and it is open now (duh).....turn ignition

I have to admit that the HD crowd is a great bunch of folks with a good
sense of legacy humour.  In this ad:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1974-HARLEY-DAVIDSON-XLH_W0QQitem
Z290165020993QQihZ019QQcategoryZ49995QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmd

Tried Patron Anejo and Herradura Anejo.  Both very good.  Any other
suggestions for sippin', not shootin' or mixin' ?

This is going to be a tight weekend.  Gotta come in and do work
tomorrow, after they reboot the systems at noon.  Meanwhile, I have a
new XM satellite radio to install on the Harley, new (well, used, but
new to me) Rizoma rearsets to install on the Monster, I have to put

They are needed:
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=218&ad=1880650&cat=144&lpid=2
How do people like this even get a job?

My ancient air mattress finally gave up the ghost.
Last time I looked, I found I liked the air mattress
better than the current crop of self inflating pads.
Looking now, I see there are some air mattress

I'm not talking about driveway downs - we've all done that. I'm
talking about outright wrecks - you hit something, something hit you,
you lost control and went down without hitting anything, someone else
caused you to go down and you still didn't hit anything... and who

At first I thought this was funny...then I realized the awful truth of it.
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table

Hi could anyone tell me how much oil it takes for a 2006 vulcan 500?

It's raining!
And not a thunderstorm!  An honest to god low front!  I can't remember the
last time it rained.
I hope it rains/snow from now until spring.

My city has two (and only two) main roads than run length-wise from
one end to the other for a distance of about 22miles. One road is 2
lanes on either side of a divided highway, varying sped limits with a
top speed of 45mph. The other is 3 lanes either side of divided

Rode in the 1950's  60's  and 70's. Put 22000 miles on a 1950 pan head in 18
months and then traded it in for a 1952 pan head. I wanted a hand clutch.
Now I only get to ride on trails when I can borrow my daughter in laws trail
bike. Would go in the summer evenings From Denver ...

If I recall correctly you used actual film to take pictures in Moab.
For some reason I think you may have caught me wallowing through a series of
S turns in
Canyonlands.

I was once told that the first rule of riding a motorcycle is that
you're going to fall off.  I have completed that requirement (several
times); and that, together with the lifting the bike thread got me
wondering if everyone's experience has been the same as mine in one

It takes about 15 seconds for most people to learn how to drive most
modern cars/trucks/SUVs. Most American Driver Education programs only
teach drivers how to pass the extremely inadequate DMV tests. The un-
intended consequence of these two statements is road rage. Sadly, most