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View Poll Results: Why do you modify your ride? | |
Do you modify for aesthetics?
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Do you modify for performance?
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Do you modify for both reasons?
|    | 21 | 87.50% |
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Jan 24th, 2006, 03:11 AM
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#1 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ohio....Brrrrr
Posts: 309 Interests: Easily amused by two wheels or two tits...whichever... Occupation: Military Police
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So why do you modify your ride? | 
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Jan 24th, 2006, 07:39 AM
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#2 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 620
| I modify cause I want the bike to run and handle better. | |
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Jan 24th, 2006, 08:02 PM
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#3 | | Moderator Has posted 500+
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 4,515
| i modify the looks to my liking, and modify the engine to get better performance. it is all a personal preferance....
chuck | |
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Jan 25th, 2006, 12:12 PM
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#4 | | Rookie 10+ posts
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Mesa, AZ.
Posts: 48
| Don't know many guy's that can buy anything and just leave it alone. We all want to give it our own touch. My stock motor really didn't run very good, a few bolt on performance parts and I like the way it performs now. I've been told by several friends that you never really finish adding stuff to your bike, but I think I'm close to bolting on all the chrome I'm going to put on it. I'll post some photo's soon. I'm very happy with my bike. RIDE ON!!!  | |
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Jan 25th, 2006, 10:17 PM
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#5 | | Very Active Poster 50+
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Arizona
Posts: 95
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I think for some of us older riders in the beginning if you didn't work on your bike you didn't ride it you pushed, so modifing became a habit. Dutch | |
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Jan 26th, 2006, 11:56 AM
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#6 | | Rookie 10+ posts
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Arlington, Texas
Posts: 22 Occupation: Manager,A/C parts
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Its like a neighbor mine said when I first got my scooter, If you want to be unique, leave it stock. As to the question of if you ever stop changing, My answer is, I'm only $2000.00 from finishing. | |
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Jan 28th, 2006, 12:57 PM
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#7 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Nomad, currently the Blue Ridge Mountains
Posts: 401 Model: 2006 FXDI SuperGlide Interests: Camping, fishing, admirer of beautiful women, fast motorcycles, and smooth whiskey Occupation: Writer illustrator
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I hear ya, whether it was crappy British electrics, or things HD should have done but just didn't bother to, like continuous lubrication to the cam bushing, the alternative was push. And now....well I just think tinkering with my ride is almost as cheap as seeing a shrink...and a lot better at relieving stress than prozac, without those sexual side effects...Ride Free.... | |
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Jan 29th, 2006, 02:04 PM
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#8 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Ohio
Posts: 385 Model: 02 wide glide Interests: harleys-jack daniels-that "one thing" Occupation: trying to make a living
| most people don't run out and start re-doing new vehicles when they buy them.... maybe tint the windows..and all....but for reasons of many HD is different
they put some parts from the factory you pay for them then turn around and buy a part even more expensive than the orginal and change it out!@?#?$??? ...then HD leaves off parts....room for altering to their benefit in the parts businesss and to allow the fullfillment of the Egos of Manhood(and even more women now)
Some how we get into the mode making of our "own taste"....on our own rides..a BIG win for HD...
in the beginning the additions" were more like maintenance to keep it going(to me and what I can remember around me).... early British "choppers" (Nortons mating with Triumphs)...then Captain America sent things turning.....LOL...... Everyone wants to be unique now but instead of building your own custom part they can be purchased....just like some else will have?
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Jan 29th, 2006, 06:17 PM
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#9 | | Has posted 500+
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 834 Interests: Bikes, Boobs and Beer Occupation: Biker
| One look at my rattle-can-custom and you know its all function,,, | |
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Jan 29th, 2006, 10:07 PM
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#10 | | 200+ posts and climbing
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ohio....Brrrrr
Posts: 309 Interests: Easily amused by two wheels or two tits...whichever... Occupation: Military Police
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Everyone wants to be unique now but instead of building your own custom part they can be purchased....just like some else will have?
| Umm, GUILTY, bro, right here.. 
Just installed SE mufflers and A/C kit, haven't got around to the jets just yet.... 
scoot | |
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Jan 31st, 2006, 04:24 PM
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#11 | | Rookie 10+ posts
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: dallas,tx
Posts: 44 Interests: 80Shovel,78Ironhead,spending time with family Occupation: machinist/welder
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I like to see the looks on the rice burners face when the light turns green and i eat there ass (on the start). My 80fxe may not look fast, but it will suprise the hell out of you. Its not all motor, but how you shift the gears. | |
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