Poll - Harley ownership

[Curly3]

Perfect sidecar for Freaky to take Walter on

[LWC82PE]

I don't know how true it is but apparently in the 40's & 50's they made L/H throttle Harleys & Indians for the Police so they could still shoot right handed.
Anybody know if this is fair dinkum or just another Harley myth?

Yes correct, ive seen it on the army models too, and not only do they have the throttle on the left they have it so accelerating is when your roll the throttle FORWARD  Combine that with hand gear change and foot operated clutch and they become a bit tricky to ride. When i did an Indian i put the throttle on the right operating normally and made the left grip the distributor advance.

[dalesween]

Yes i have seen one in the flesh,OMG confusion city.

cheers Dale.

[oldskool]

the v-rod engine is a road version of the harley road race bikes.the road version was engineered in the porsche factory in germany by porsche engineers believe it or not but true.cheers gary

[crash n bern]

God leave it to a BMW rider, they are as dull as their bikes, I have ridden a couple and you would get more of a thrill out of a Quakers meeting. Still they usually do come with luggage big enough for your lawn bowls. 

I owned a Beemer once. It was so effecient it was boring.  The hardest part was staying awake while riding it.  Talk about sensory deprivation, it was weird, almost like fying.  I could feel and hear the wind but nothing else. 

[dkupf]

As a Goldwing rider I can relate to what your saying Crash & Bern  Darcy

[Marc.com]

the v-rod engine is a road version of the harley road race bikes.the road version was engineered in the porsche factory in germany by porsche engineers believe it or not but true.cheers gary

Not exactly, the V Rod has nothing in common except the basic layout of the VR1000, it is much larger engine and I am not really sure what the MoCo were thinking, my guess is the V Rod would end up a platform for a larger engine for the big twins.

Except Harley riders won't accept water cooling.

Harley out sourced development to Porsche related engineering studio as it was cheaper... the VR1000 was built to run US Superbikes, twins races which it did quite decently but wasn't a Ducati and didn't have the same $$$$$ race program.

[suzuki43]

Hey Tokyo Rose,
Yuck that bike is disgusting,they definitely need to stick to cruisers.
Hey found a mint F yet??
Youre spending too much time left hand typing over Harleys mate  -FOCUS son!!!!

[Marc.com]

Buell had a good race bike XBRR that could run pretty hard in twins racing and a road version that would have been cool. Like CCM with B50 motor, there was not much left of the original Harley sportster engine, Buell improved it a lot.

But Harley would not allow production as it had full fairing, like the VR1000 Harley believed that full fairings pitched their bikes straight at the Japanese makers, so that's why Buells have weird half fairings

Buells demise started with the Buell blast which the MoCo pushed them to build.

[Marc.com]

Hey Tokyo Rose,
Yuck that bike is disgusting,they definitely need to stick to cruisers.
Hey found a mint F yet??
Youre spending too much time left hand typing over Harleys mate  -FOCUS son!!!!

Mate you are right, this is just something I do while Pornhub is buffering.... I am off out the door to look for an F.

[tony27]

I don't know how true it is but apparently in the 40's & 50's they made L/H throttle Harleys & Indians for the Police so they could still shoot right handed.
Anybody know if this is fair dinkum or just another Harley myth?

A family friend had an indian like that, right hand twisted to alter ignition timing

[firko]

I reckon this post might just be dead.

[Marc.com]

yep time to put it to sleep

[TM BILL]

No the poll closes on the 25th and i want to see 50 people prepared to scoff boogers with Nathan 

[Canam370]

Want to close off this thread? I will but I'll have to have a poll for a consensus......