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Hey Chen, it's been so long since I've even looked closely at a stock scooter, what is the "Slim," like a next-generation Fat Boy kinda? Nice lookin' ride anyway. Kinda weird seeing a regular foot-peg mounted above a floor-board though. I can't really make out where the brake pedal is, but it looks kind of awkward to find a comfortable foot position where you can still easily access the brake.
So was that ride from WA or OR to Jackson Hole? I love mountain riding, man. And coastal runs too. And desert runs. Heck, I love it all man! I've done Sturgis 12 times. From the LA area three times, from the Seattle area (Carnation to be precise) twice, and all the rest from here. I always try to find the most mountainous route, which was easy from the West coast departure points, but it's tough down here. The Ozarks are cool, but after that, you have to fly straight and level for a thousand miles or more before you hit the Bad Lands and the mountains right outside Rapid City and Sturgis. A partner and I built a mobile dyno and took it to Sturgis for three out of the seven years I've gone up there from here. It was good because we made a ton of dough, but it was kind of a drag because we could never get out and ride, so the partner bought me out and built a real live build-shop on his property. We built the two yellow bikes below in that shop over the next couple of years. Both were bought as retired cop bikes at auction out of Nashville. Spent a little over $8K for the pair of 'em. Did all the engine work and paint myself, and polished my wife's cylinder-fins after they were powder coated so they gleamed like silver goin' down the road. Both of these bikes had light bars, sirens and saddle bags on 'em when I brought 'em home from auction. I don't know, I think they came out alright....what do y'all think?
Hers was a '98 FXRP, taken just after the first paint job, but before the powder coating and engine work:
After really hitting it in the custom shop it had Branch heads, .80 over top end job, Andrews cam, powder coated jugs and rocker boxes, chromed lifter blocks, inner primary and brake and clutch reservoirs:
Mine was a '97 FXRP. Good grief, I couldn't begin to list all the mods to this bike. Like the Softail in my last post, it had super high-quality (Brown's) chrome on
everything. Harmonic balancer on the crank shaft that made it purr like a (lion) kitten at 3400 RPM with virtually zero vibration. All the internals were aftermarket, including high-compression pistons, titanium rods and push-rods, shaved heads and on and on and on and on.....Was kind of a head-turner too:
This was on the way to Sturgis '99 I think, maybe '00. GW was driving the van towing the dyno with her bike loaded on it. I much prefer right-side pics of my bikes, but this was the best one she got because somehow she couldn't keep the side-mirror of the van out of the shot when I was on her left side. Another trip that overflows the memory banks, including me and the partner getting hit by lightening just over the SD state line. Hurt like Hell, but neither of us went down, and both of us were wide awake for the last couple of hundred miles, that's for sure! LOL
Some of my airbrush skills on display:
And the ubiquitous engine compartment profile shot:
I still have at least one more bike uploaded in my Photobucket, but I'm going to try to find some pics to scan and upload to add to it before I post 'em up.
'Scuse me guys......Yeah Honey, I'm making a post, whatcha need? Oh! HAHAHAHA! That was GW wanting to know if I smelled rice burning too! LOL Have fun y'all.
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