Hack'n - 11/1/2009 2:39 PM
"( besides its ugly and its jap )"
So is a whole bunch of your HarleyLonnie, your other advice was constructive and appreaciated. This assinine response is not.
In defence of Lonnie:
In the 80ties HD was in Germany a kind of synonym for bad electrics running with its 2 big garbage cans already installed inside the cylinders. Many HD riders had a collection of expensive pencil holders on their desk.
Since when HD became reliable?
When they started to use Jap parts and redesigned completely..... If for good? .... I sometimes even doubt.
Before they were in many eyes as bad as the famous "Lukas - Knight of Darkness"
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This post is not thought to insult anybody. For sure Lonnie didn't want to insult anybody neither.
So please leave hurting comments aside and lets continue discussing in a gently manner.
Best regards to everybody.
Sven
Asinine?
Reread your post.
Let's try to keep it impersonal.
BTW: I read in the Motorcycle Industry news that The Motor Company has dropped Buell, MV and Aprilla and is going to outsource building Harleys to other countries.
I wonder which ones?
Cheers,
Lonnie
Sven, I know all about Lucas, the Prince of Darkness (we promoted him from "Knight" I guess). I've had a MGA since 1976. It's in the garage waiting for a new master cylinder now. I used to drive it daily but had to stop when parts started falling off faster than I could put them back on.
It used to be fun having to rock the TD's back and forth to unlock the starter drive. Luckily they had a square end on the armature so you could take a stilson to it if it didn't unlock by rocking. My bride always parked her TD facing down hill in the driveway so she didn't have to trust the starter in the morning on her way to work.
I almost always had an order coming from Abington on the Thames every time someone slammed a door it broke the brass doorlatches.
I finally reversed the door hinges on mine to get rid of the suicide doors.
Lonnie
So Lukas got a promotion from Knight to Prince! I can only applaude.
(beside my visit in Manchester for the hydraulic ABS I hadn't more personell contacts with their engineers)
Actually via the Lukas electric system of my Austin Martin I came to the ideal solution "3 wheels".
Lukas darkness caused me to sell it, and on the trip to Hamburg 3 km before the Autobahn it threw off its right front wheel!!!!
(imagine that thing rode up to 175km/h)
2 weeks later on 13.12.1986 my new life began with a Erich Honecker ride!
I could tell quite a bunch of stories...
Sven
You and your wife had matching TD's! Now that is very cool! Great pictures.
Would that be one of Erich's MZ's you're talking about Sven?
http://www.tinten-ass.de/MZ/Home/01b07d99f413cd40f/01b07d99fc14f4a2f.html
that way it looked only one day The next morning the windshield went off.
Sven
