This isn't really a build or a project, but I'll post it here. Some of you have seen this next door, where I've posted this progress
ad nauseum.
When I finally got back into riding after a 26 year absence, I started looking for the best and cheapest big twin I could find. I found this pristine 2000 FXD in Michigan, with 7K on the clock.
Why the hell I quit riding in 1980 I cannot tell you. Anyway, then I started making this thing my own. You've heard the cliche that a FXD is a blank canvas... it truly is. Kids got me forward controls that year, which was a great mod. I added a two-up seat and sissy bar for the bride.
Was pining away on a forum one time about how much I loved buckhorn bars, and damned if BHO member Sport-Ed didn't mail his bar from his '95 hugger. I drilled and internally wired these last winter.
Last summer, kids got me some V&H short shots off e-bay. ($120!)
This winter, I needed tires and a 20K service, the paint was looking a little tired. So, I borrowed a lift, inclinometer, torque wrenches, bought a Clymer, and went after it. Put on a set of Metzelers, bumped up the rear size one knotch, commissioned some paint for the tins, installed cam chain tensioners.
Was watching some e-bay auctions to score on some chrome cases, but did an alternative idea... I polished everything in sight!
Paint by Eric.
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Screwed on some chrome, put 'er back together last Sunday. Finally got to really shake it down tonight. Nothing leaks, nothing fell off. Pulled up next to a county sheriff tonight, and as I willed those pipes to be not so loud, he rolled his window down, pointed, and gave me the thumbs up!
Happy as a pig in new mud!
2000 Harley Davidson Superglide
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