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Where is Joshbob? Missin' him and those shovelhead posts

rode to rhode island yesterday. Left at 7:30am, got to my destination at 11am. About 180 miles one way. Hung out a couple hours then headed home. Kinda rusty. Stops and starts weren't the smoothest. Could feel my over all awkwardness. Started off about 55 degrees and topped out in the 70's.

Important is i got there and back in good shape. Damn lower-glove box almost wouldn't stay shut. Had to hold it closed for a few seconds before it would catch. As of yet thet do not make a locking door for it yet.

Saw a funny hillarious thing. I rode the back roads down,,,,rt 12, rt 149, rt 2, I-190, I-290 to 146 etc....anyways going thru one of the small towns a auto grage repair business built a huge sign facing the road with 2 foot letter saying "DRUNK TONY IS A THIEF". I don't know who drunk...

Can anyone help me? I had to replace a broken choke cable that runs from the dash down to carb. I need a picture or drawing showing me how to route the cable through or under frame getting to the carb. I am using 5gal fatbob tanks. If you can also show me how to route the throttle cable (single cable) how it is fastened to frame on its way to carb it would be greatly appreciated. Thank You BigNick

Anybody try one??? Bought 2017 Street Glide Special . Doing head pipe, street cannons, extreme flow air filter, power S/E cam, and Pro Street Tuner at the dealer. They are confident download is common with there parts. Wonder in this day and age that the self learn would fill in the gray areas better than dyno time as that is a controlled environment. One issue might be needing 18mm bungs on Supertrap, should have gone V/H instead. Hind sight is always 20/20. All opinions gracefully accepted. Thanks

Greetings gentlemen, I have a situation where I had to replace the stock sender in the cone because the gunk was leaking out. I replaced it with the Ultima d 200i every thing in the cone single fire unit. The bike runs good and when you twist the throttle she goes hard like you want. Problem is when you are running about 1500 rpms or so it sounds like badly adjusted points breaking down. When you rev it it comes right out of that she and runs great. What could that be? The bike is a 98' heritage 80 cubic incher with cv carb. I static timed her and otherwise she runs great. What could be going on here?