Yep, that is likely where mine will end up but with it turned 90 degrees and laid back against the frame tubes, laying on an L shaped base.

LANCER wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:11:

90 degrees?  I assume that you mean to lay your dry cell battery on its side...

"If it were me"...I'd mount the battery in a way that would work for both wet and dry cell batteries.  Hate to be caught with a limited choice and no place to put it.

...or are you talking about doing something else?

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90 degrees?  I assume that you mean to lay your dry cell battery on its side...

"If it were me"...I'd mount the battery in a way that would work for both wet and dry cell batteries.  Hate to be caught with a limited choice and no place to put it.

...or are you talking about doing something else?[/quote

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I really like the dry cell  and will continue to use it on the bike, so even if/when this one dies I will replace it with another dry cell.  They are readily available and the prices good.

I hope you have many fine rides in memory.

Sorry to hear about your brother Lancer ... I'm thinking that finishing that Bike you are fabricating and Riding it to Sturgis would be a fitting tribute in his honor!

PerrydaSavage wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:12:



My brother and I were extraordinarily close.   Three years ago, 2 yr before he died, Beverly and I were able to spend 2 months in Oklahoma and we stayed with my brother and his wife most of that time.   We had a lot of time together;  feeding their horses, working on his trucks, just a lot of really good guy time.  We talked about virtually everything under the sun and had a wonderful time.  Not since the late 60's had we had so much time.  We could not ride together then because he did not have a bike right then and mine was here in South Carolina, but we really wanted to take a cross country ride with each other before long.  At the beginning of 2006 the bike club I ride with here was planning for the Sturgis ride so I talked with him about meeting up on the road, maybe around St Louis or whatever would work out, continue on to Sturgis with the group and then after that we would leave the group and head back toward Oklahoma together in a leisurely ride and just spend another week or so on the road.  

His heart attack in June brought all of that to an abrupt halt.  I have never named any of my bikes before (we did have an old '64 Buick Wildcat once that my family called BUCK ), but decided that I would do so this time in his honor.  I choose to use his middle name (Dwight Rex Eslick) because  when we were very young men he was a pretty roudy guy, hard core partying, always after the women, REALLY FULL OF HIMSELF, and during his carousing back then he would use his middle name REX ... kind of an alter-ego thing.  He was just out for a good time, never wanted to hurt anyone or do bad things, just have fun.
So when thinking about the bike, which is now modified quite a bit from stock, I felt that the "alter-ego" theme and   using the name of REX would be appropriate.  

There is not a day that goes by that I do not think about my brother, I miss him very much, but I have the assurance that we will see each other again since he was finally able to let go of himself and ask Jesus into his heart before his life on this earth ended.  That knowledge gives me peace of mind and heart.

Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:12:


No problem at all.  God is especially close today, bringing back memories and feelings and such.  It is a rather sensitive thing "heart wise" but at the same time it feels really good too.  HE is using this as a time for healing.  GOD IS GOOD.