Picked this up today

[Bawanna]

I had a street/trail 90 and a mini trail 70 to start out. I abused both very much. Flat tracked em, had a blast on them little things.

Had several dirt bikes. Only road bikes I had were a Yamaha 500 and a Sportster for a short while.

My son has a Sportster in the garage which kind of helps me feel like I'm still in it a tiny bit.

I got hold of my first boss's son yesterday. They had a very old what I thought was an Indian on the front porch of their house far back as I could remember. He said it actually was an ole Harley, probably 30's or earlier but it was gone, wasn't sure what happened to it. Think it was his brothers.
Probably never run again but I wanted to put it on my front porch, it was pretty nasty shape but still nice to look at. Said his brother did have an Indian too for awhile but didn't remember it being at the house where I would have seen it.

[jocko]

Dino. That is one really cool vulcoan, never seen one like that. I question though how Indan couldhave sued anyone since they went bankrupt in 53 and the only thing they salvaged all these years was their trademark name, which was sold at auction a few years back. I qonder what ther lawsuit was over, as that front fender is Indian style buyt certainly there would be no trade mark prortection on that fender..

People want to knock AMF but had they not bought HD back then, HD was getting ready to close their doors, so they for the most part keep thye moco goin, althugh people hated um, but now realize theyt saved the companyt at that time. The MOCO facili9ties under AMF stayed in Milwaukee, home of HD.

Itxi lots of good utter bikes out there, one has to just decide what he wants etc. Harley has come a long ways in the last 25 years to so so to a great bike today and if proof is in the pudding they now own 56% of the market of all motorcycles sold in the U.S. of bikes over 650 cc, and that takes in a hell of alot of metric crotch rockets, considering HD smallest engine is an 883 cc. Information provided by the Motorcycle Industry Council

That is one cool vulcan indeed, great paint scheme is what also makes that bike a real look along with the fender and laced wheels and WWW tires...

[Dino]

I'm not hating Harleys, rode one for 16 years. I like the way the Drifter fits me, and the ride quality of it. It is also a very reliable bike, their are folks out their that have 100,000 miles on their metric cruisers without ever having to do any type of major mechanical work on them.
Their is a reason why Harley is putting radiators on their bigger cubic inch bikes now, they should have done it years ago.

[jocko]

epa

I'm not hating Harleys, rode one for 16 years. I like the way the Drifter fits me, and the ride quality of it. It is also a very reliable bike, their are folks out their that have 100,000 miles on their metric cruisers without ever having to do any type of major mechanical work on them.
Their is a reason why Harley is putting radiators on their bigger cubic inch bikes now, they should have done it years ago.

is what is driving the water cooled bikes, only 3 models this year, maybe more next year, still 95%of all HD's are air cooled and I think they will be that way for a ver6y long time.

My 110 inch HD 2010 Has 36K on it and never beenin a shop for any repairs.. The wifes 103 cube streetglide 2011 has 28K mile son it and I ust recently had it in for a new stator, but I has been one hell of a great bike . We3 ride um like we stole um.

[Bawanna]

The Drifter is a Vulcan? I've heard of Vulcan but never heard of Drifter.

I love it. Beautiful looking scooter. Guess I've led a sheltered life having never heard of it.

My flat tracking bike during and a few years out of High School was a Hodaka, one of them with the chrome indestructible gas tanks. Predecessor to the Combat Wombat?

Those were the days.....................

[getsome]

[QUOTE=Bawanna;268714]I had a street/trail 90 and a mini trail 70 to start out. I abused both very much.

I had a 1971 Honda Trail 70 that was indestructable....I abused it in every way possible...My buddy and I stole about 300 feet of heavy cable from a Southern Bell Substation to make a pulley ride with and we drug that wire home with my Trail 70 in 1st gear for about 3 miles, clutch was smokin when we got it home but that little bugger never quit....I'm betting it's still out there somewhere running good as ever....

Right before I got married I bought a 1975 Kawasaki Z1 900 which was much too big for me at the time but I wanted the baddest a$$ bike out there so I got one...One the most terrifying things to ever happen to me was on that bike....

I got it up to about 120 mph on the highway to see what the top end was and I had to let off to keep from blowing off the seat (no windshield or fairing) and I had on a full face helmet with a face shield and somehow the wind got under the helmet and jerked my head straight back like a parachute and all I could see was sky until I got it back down to 70 or so...Didn't wreck it somehow but had to clean out my drawers after that one....Slowed down after that little incident and soon after got married and PAQU decided the bike had to go so that was the end of that story but I still miss that bike and would love to have a restored 70's superbike someday...

I rode all kinds of motorcycles big and small, both street and killer fast motocross bikes and never once got hurt except on my cousins Honda mini trail 50 trying to powerslide that thing I wrecked and tore off both knees, my chin and one elbow which took all summer to heal....That one HURT and I still see those scars every day...Note to self, stay off pocket rocket bikes, they are DANGEROUS!!!!

[jocko]

that was supin I never wanted to test out was how fast I could go on a motorcycle. The speed part was never one of my forte's. I knew I didn't do them well.One of my best riding buddies and my doctor who discovered cancer in my worthless ass body was killed on his bike right in front of me. Its been 8 years and I still remember every second of it. If u don't give 125% of respect to riding a motorcycle it will bite u, and for some that bite could be a fatal bite to. Just sayin

At my age now I kinda question myself as to "why am I still doin this sh!t?" I guess if I gotta explain u would not understand. Popeye certainly knows what I am talking about. Just sayin

[jocko]

Is that

Here is a non Harley V-twin I own, only a little over 6000 of these made over a 6 year period. Very rare bike. Kawasaki Drifter 1500, total custom bike in pristine condition. Rides like a dream, plenty of power and shaft drive. Knock off of the Indian. This bike has the Blackout package which makes it more collectable, Indian sued Kawasaki over this bike and made them change it up for the following four years. Mine is a 2000 FI model with 16,000 miles.

just a fairing or is their gauges and radio etc in the fairing.

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[QUOTE=getsome;268726]

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I rode all kinds of motorcycles big and small, both street and killer fast motocross bikes and never once got hurt except on my cousins Honda mini trail 50 trying to powerslide that thing I wrecked and tore off both knees, my chin and one elbow which took all summer to heal....That one HURT and I still see those scars every day...Note to self, stay off pocket rocket bikes, they are DANGEROUS!!!!

weighs 47lbs and has 11.5 hp .Was a little rocket ship . Hurt me more than some of my big bikes. Also had a Honda z50 with a Chinese 120cc engine. One of these days I might grow up. (53years old)

[Tilos]

New for 2014 the Honda Grom
http://powersports.honda.com/2014/grom.aspx
2 up street legal

[CJB]

Plus it's 86HP out of only a 700CC engine and it weighs 529lbs wet. It takes a very big V-twin to make that power. Then it will weigh so much the power to weight ratio is shot.

No it doesn't take a very big V-twin to make that power, nor a heavy one. You can get that out of an XLH883 with not much work, and they weigh less than 500lbs (maybe not the very newest ones). A really trick XLH883 can do right at 100hp, but it loses all its low end balls when you do that. XR-750 Harley engines do about 100-105hp, and a good XR will weigh less than 400 lbs, or just over that if you put breaks on it. Granted with the same displacement, the 4 cyl will generally crank more.

Glad you like your bike tho... and its a spiffy color.

[Dino]

just a fairing or is their gauges and radio etc in the fairing.

It's got a 500 watt Polk audio sound system.

The fairing and tour pack were added, if you take that stuff off the bike it looks just like an Indian Chief. Even the rear fender travels with the rear wheel like the Indian. I have a Solo seat for it to. The tour pack can be removed and the solo seat put on in about 15-20 min.

As far as the lawsuit goes, I'm not sure about the details, I just know that the owners of the Indian name brought a lawsuit against Kawasaki and made them remove the Blackout package from the bike, Stating it made the bike look to much like the Indian. They are on their fourth attempt now to be back in business. But with the backing of Polaris they my have a good chance of making it work this time.