Sportsters ARE Harleys as far as I’m concerned. The crowd I rode with when I was younger thought so too. They epitomized the V twin. Much better than a Bar-ca Lounger Road Glide Ultra.

At that moment, I knew there was a God, and he was vengeful.

Thanks

This is a small reliquary I turned out of a tree burl containing some ashes from my 20 year old son who recently died. He’s with me every day.

Sometimes it works both ways. My 20 something son came home last night with three bags of Taco Bell. He gave me three tacos and a steak quesadilla. When I asked what I’d done to deserve such largess, he told me nothing, but the guy at the drive through was high as fuck and just kept handing him bags of food. The food…

But you can get anything you want...

Once, and only once, when I was a very young manager, I was rude and condescending to an employee in front of a customer. That customer, god bless them, took the time to explain to me what an asshat I was. I took that message to heart and am a better person for it.

They put them inside sealed plastic bags with just the sterilized drill bit sticking out.

I know an old (85+) orthopedic surgeon that tells a story about the first electric drill he used in surgery, it was a Craftsman. They used to buy them from the local Sears outlet, use them once and throw them away, since they couldn’t sterilize them.

I used to work in a high end woodworking store. You could always tell the hardcore cabinet builders by the number of missing digits.

You try getting whacked with a coupe of asterisks and tell me that shit doesn’t hurt.

Me too, if I’m using synthetic. There’s just something something satisfying about the process of working on the bike doing basic maintenance.

$1000 fine in Florida. Guys were using them to beat the Sun Pass toll system.

“your bike sounds like Satan spray-farting hammers onto a sheet of aluminum”

Change your own oil. Adjust your chain, check your lights and brakes. Tires take specialized equipment, but not changing your own oil, shame on you.

At least he’s wearing a helmet and gloves. We had a new prospective member show up at our club BBQ (Honda America sponsored club) wearing flip flops, cargo shorts and a wifebeater. He got so much grief he never came back. Good riddance.

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Florida, the law is even with the top of the riders shoulders. Still a stupid choice.

Never replace a chain without replacing the front and rear sprockets too. Doing so is a false economy and will cause the chain to fail much sooner than otherwise. Riveted master links are a better solution than ones with clips.