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Time to get your ride out

Truck Shop

Truck Shop

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Actually I'm quite the opposite of what most of you would expect. I'm always the opposite direction from everyone else.
 
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ianjoub

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Truck Shop said:
Been setting since last September, drove it a 1000 miles last year don't even need to change the fluids.
Probably 900 miles this year.
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Nice!

I bought my wife one a few years ago, for sale now. It is a 2005 convertible with a manual trans, ground effects package, and 20" wheels. It is fun to drive. I just hate trying to get back out of it, crawling up off of the floor gets harder as we age.
 
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Truck Shop said:
Been setting since last September, drove it a 1000 miles last year don't even need to change the fluids.
Probably 900 miles this year.

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Jump in and blast over to Whitefish and join us for the June 8th ACMOC event at Jim Cole's Snow Ghost Ranch. Maybe you know him. He owns or owned most of the Peterbilt dealers in the NW.
 
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Just had my Road Glide out for a few hundred Friday. Going in for service Wednesday as I do not do low slung as well as used to and much easier if THEY make a mess and clean it up! Plus I get another 100 mile(Maybe more) round trip day in the saddle. Got where I enjoy heavy and soft slow ride.
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When I still had this one I road in all types of weather. I remember in 2013 leaving Ontario, Ore. at 6:00 a.m. 75* on highway 26 headed toward John Day. I topped
Brogan Mountain summit and temp was down to 37*. There are nine mountain passes to cross between Ontario and Pendleton Or. Taking routes 26 & 395. I sold it
just before I had back surgery on 4-14-14. I don't miss it but I still miss it. Afterward I bought the ZZZZ.

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STILL remember when HD came out with the Tour Glide, FUGLY, but many guys liked how the fixed fairing rode, I was into Yamahas, and they as well had fixed fairings but were more streamlined to me, Looked Fast. Then the Roadies came out, 'Shark nose', SWORE I would NOT EVER sit my butt on one. Owned and Rode hardtail FLs and a few piecemeal basket case builds, still rode the Hamers. Then quit riding, ALMOST 20 years off, decided was time to get back on and bought a used 2003 Road King shield W/S Harley. Nice bike 60,000 miles under our butts on that one with the early Delphi EFI on a 88TC, not exactly a powerhouse.
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By the time we traded it was quite modified trying to get a look I liked as well get rid of the turbulence around the shield than the batwing fairing.
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Then I rode a buddy's Roadie, he worked on me for OVER three hours to get me to ride it, was hooked after that.
 
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