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Message started by springman on 03/17/18 at 20:31:18

Title: Almost dumped my bike in the garage
Post by springman on 03/17/18 at 20:31:18

I just finished changing the brake disc and pads. Not particularly difficult though a bit messy. As I was pushing the bike forward to roll off of the homemade stand, I was on the left side of the bike, I began to lose my balance and almost dumped it to the right and I would have ended up on top of it. That was close. I somehow managed to pull it back. I normally ask my son or a neighbor for help at that point just to make sure I do not dump it. But my son is not here and at 10 pm I am not going to bother my neighbor.

Anyway, rode it up and down the block a couple of times and gave the brake a good dozen or so tries. Sure hope it grabs better after a few miles.

Title: Re: Almost dumped my bike in the garage
Post by MMRanch on 03/17/18 at 22:09:31

That's why I need to sell the 560# bike and keep the 360# bike ;)

I gave the Harley a little cleaning today ... sort-of ... Chair sitting beside it and getting some of the warm weather we had today.

Its almost warm enought to hang a for sale sign on it and park it out by the main road .

Glad you kept your up on the wheels today . :)

Title: Re: Almost dumped my bike in the garage
Post by Dave on 03/18/18 at 03:38:51

Yep.......I have had a few "almost" versions of that same experience when pushing a bike around.

Loading a large bike on a trailer is always a scary event for me. (Except when I had the 165 pound trials bike).

Title: Re: Almost dumped my bike in the garage
Post by LANCER on 03/18/18 at 07:54:01

13 1/2 demerits for dumping your bike in your own garage; you barely squeaked by. [ch128513][ch127949]

Title: Re: Almost dumped my bike in the garage
Post by Papa Bear on 03/18/18 at 12:51:49

Yeah, I couldn't admit I dropped the bike in the garage...
I'd call the cops and report an aborted theft. 8-)

Title: Re: Almost dumped my bike in the garage
Post by springman on 03/18/18 at 13:07:42

Yeah, it actually happened like Papa Bear said. ;D

Oh well. Front brake has now been bled and has nice clean bake fluid in it. Clutch cable has been lubed and adjusted and wow I cannot believe the difference. I think I will order a petcock and when it comes in I'll take advantage to put in my DIY foam air filter and clean and rejet the carb.

I have a question. I have refrained from doing the carb rejet thus far even though I am running an HD muffler. I seem to have pretty good performance though I get alot of popping on decel. I wound it out yesterday and got to about 88 mph and feel I might have hit 90 if I would have kept it in 4th gear. I really do not know what mpg I am getting right now. My question is will rejetting and foam filter make any difference in performance or possibly just lower my mpg?

Title: Re: Almost dumped my bike in the garage
Post by IslandRoad on 03/18/18 at 13:39:46

Springman, I swapped to a Dyna muffler last summer - then I re-jetted. By my Newbie assessment, re-jetting gave the bike a little more pull. I'm still running the stock air-filter.

However, I was more interested in tuning out the lean carb setup the stock bike comes with. I enrichened the fuel mix passed the optimum spot, and then back a touch. Overall it just feels more ... tuned!

The biggest difference I noticed though, was the bike runs cooler.

Title: Re: Almost dumped my bike in the garage
Post by springman on 03/18/18 at 14:56:01

Thanks IslandRoad. I'll report back when I make the changes.

Title: Re: Almost dumped my bike in the garage
Post by verslagen1 on 03/18/18 at 17:26:44

for my take on it, most of those that have gone too far on the white spacer mod are the ones that loose the most mileage.

An unmodified dyna has about the same backpressure as a stock muff.

If you do a foam filter in the stock air box then there shouldn't be much change.

Title: Re: Almost dumped my bike in the garage
Post by springman on 03/18/18 at 18:11:23

Thanks Versy. That is exactly what I was thinking of doing.

Title: Re: Almost dumped my bike in the garage
Post by eau de sauvage on 03/18/18 at 23:28:41

I dropped my gs in the garage. Pulled in, flicked the kickstand down and got off all in one nice smooth motion. Except that I missed the kickstand doh!