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NO, FOR REAL…Want to make money while riding a Harley Davidson Motorcycle? (catch, you have to live in Europe).

Posted: February 20, 2015 in Motorcycle, Motorcycle advocacy, Motorcycle news, Motorcycle Rides, motorcycle touring
Tags: contest, europe, Harley Davidson, motorcycle blog, motorcycle touring, motorcycle TV, Street Glide, the greatest ride of your life

What an AWESOME contest! If your selected spend two months with a professional film crew traveling around Europe with food and lodging covered, plus 25,000 Euros, plus a Street Glide….. WOW.

Like I said the catch is you have to live in Europe and have a full motorcycle license to enter the contest. This has been one of the few time I wish I lived in Europe!!!

Click here for the website for the “GREATEST RIDE OF YOUR LIFE” contest.

COME ON HARLEY.. DO THIS HERE IN THE USA!

Some of the other rules for the contest:

– Closing date for entries is Friday 20 March 2015

– The winning rider must be available to take part in various campaign activities before the ride, during the ride and after the ride over a six-month period between Wednesday 1 April and Wednesday 30 September 2015.

– The winning rider will be required to take part in promotional activity for the entirety of the campaign. This will include participating in media interviews, sharing promotional content from their personal social media profiles, writing a blog and appearing in promotional video content and photography

– The winning rider will be responsible for his/her own tax and national insurance affairs in respect of the fee. This will not be the responsibility of Harley-Davidson

– The winning rider must be fluent in verbal and written forms of the English language.

So if you live in Europe…. GET ON IT!!!!!

’15 CVO Street Glide!!!??

Posted: August 26, 2014 in custom motorcycle, Motorcycle news
Tags: 2015 cvo street glide, 2015 street glide, custom motorcycle, Harley, Harley Davidson, HD, Motorcycle, Street Glide

From a tweet from HD… LOVE that silver flake!

You don’t need no stink’n adventure bike! HD creek crossing

Posted: August 7, 2014 in Motorcycle, Motorcycle news, Motorcycle Rides
Tags: adventure motorcycle, Harley, Harley Davidson, Motorcycle, motorcycle riding, Street Glide

A couple of adventure bikes are looking at a creek crossing when, out of nowhere, …. a Harley Davidson Street Glide scoots across the creek!

Not only that … He has his wife and small child on the bike….

While I can’t recommend doing this without the proper gear, and a Harley is not the best motorcycle for this type of riding …….

Take that adventure riders! 🙂

Casual Full Dresser…. Yamaha’s Street Glide Yamaha BOLT Recall

Posted: July 30, 2013 in Motorcycle news
Tags: air cooled V-twin engine, BOLT Recall, Harley, Harley Davidson, HD, Motorcycle, motorcycle riding, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Sportster, Street Glide, Yamaha, Yamaha’s XV1900A CFD

Casual Dresser

Yamaha’s XV1900A CFD (Casual Full Dresser) motorcycle looks, to me, to be a head on assault on Harley’s Street Glide. It looks a lot like a Street Glide, and is designed to a cruiser that can take on long distance rides as well. It has a 1900cc air cooled V-twin engine which is a bit bigger than the Street Glide. You can find more about the bike here. I personally like the look! But I want to know if the Formal Full Dresser comes with a bowtie and tails?!

In other Yamaha News….. BOLT Recall

Yamaha is recalling certain model year 2014 XVS950CU (Bolt) motorcycles manufactured March 2013 through June 2013. Slack or sag in the wiring harness may allow it to contact the exhaust manifold causing the wires to melt, and possibly short circuit.

If the wires short circuit, the fuses will blow which may cause the engine to stall. An engine stall while riding, increases the risk of a crash. Yamaha will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the wiring harness and secure it away from the exhaust. If the wiring harness is damaged, it will first be replaced.

The recall is expected to begin by the end of July 2013. Owners may contact Yamaha at 1-800-962-7926.Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY: 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.

ALSO

Is it me or is Yamaha taking even more styling ideas from Harley? Really, these two bikes looks so much like their counterparts it’s crazy!

Saddlebag Lighting

Posted: July 11, 2013 in Product Reviews
Tags: Air wing, Air wing rail, Harley, Harley Davidson, LED, review, Saddlebag, saddlebag lighting, saddlebag lights, Street Glide, Ultra Classic Limited

Saddlebag Lighting

As noted in a previous post, we had some work done on the Ultra Classic Limited. Today I will cover and review the Air Wing Saddlebag Lid Rail LED Light Kit (Part Number 68388-10) we had installed.

I am a big proponent of lighting up my rear end (the bike that is). This would not have been the first lighting change the rear I would have made but Frederick Harley Davidson had a good deal on for lights.

Air Wing Saddlebag Light (braking)

When we bought the bike the Air Wing Saddlebag Rails were already installed. The rails look good and prevent some of the normal scuffing that occurs when folks mount and dismount the bike. These lights fit under the little “wing” are almost invisible with the smoke lens (red is also available).

The lights function as supplemental running and brake lights only and that is why I am giving the lights a 4 out of 5 review. I can only assume that there is not enough room in the rail tubes to add the turn signal function, but that would have been a great additional feature and earned a 5^th star.

Fairing Mounted Mirrors

Posted: July 10, 2013 in Product Reviews
Tags: Faring Mounted Mirrors, Harley, Harley Davidson, illuminated chrome covers, LED, mirrors, review, Street Glide, Ultra Classic Limited

We had some work done on the Ultra Classic Limited. Over the next few days I will describe what we had done by Frederick Harley Davidson.

Mirror with LED Turn Indicators

The first item is the fairing mounted mirrors. We purchased this because I was having issues seeing out of the standard mirrors. I am 5’8″ and sit well in OEM saddle but I needed to lean left or right to get a clear view of what was behind us. Because of that I have not been comfortable with knowing what was going on behind me. I have been associated with the fairing mounted mirrors on the Street Glide and I did not have a problem using that type of mirror. So I had the standard mirrors replaced with the fairing mounted type with illuminated chrome covers (Part Number 92600-10). The illumination provided is amber LED running lights which also function as another turn signal indicator.

So far so good, we had the 115 mile ride this past weekend during which I was continuously doing the minor adjustments one does with mirrors. I have the right mirror just where I want it but the left one still needs tweaked, but I am sure I will get it right soon.

My early review of this product would be 4 out 5. I would have liked the LEDs to be a bit larger in order to be even more visible.

Bike Show at Waugh HD

Posted: June 18, 2013 in Motorcycle Rides, Rally
Tags: 21st Annual Big Damn Bike Show, 29th Infantry Division Memorial Highway, Bagger, Big Damn Bike Show, bike, Bike Show, bikini bike wash, Cam-Am Spyder, Can-Am, Custom Bagger, custom bike, custom motorcycle, Harley, Harley Davidson, Harley Owners Group, HOG, James Madison Highway, Motorcycle, motorcycle blog, motorcycle riding, Orange, Road King, Seminole Trail, Softail, Sportster, Street Glide, VA, Virginia, Waugh Harley Davidson, Zachary Tyler Highway, Zen Daddy

Debbie and I rode to Waugh Harley Davidson in Orange, VA to participate in their 21^st Annual “Big Damn Bike Show”! The ride to the dealership was nearly eighty miles and about ninety minutes long, passing through some of Virginia’s best farm and country land. Getting to and from the show we traveled on the James Madison Highway, the 29^th Infantry Division Memorial Highway, the Seminole Trail, and the Zachary Tyler Highway.

We entered our bike, along with about 300 or so other bikes, into the show. There were another 600 to 1000 additional bikes lining the streets around the dealership which made this a bike watchers paradise. Waugh Harley Davidson, it turns out, has its own attached park called “Legends Park”, because of the tents erected in front of it I could not get a good picture of the park sign. The HOG (Harley Owners Group) club for this dealership has a sweet setup!

In addition to the bike show there were more than a dozen vendors and displays, including the ever present bikini bike wash! One of the more interesting displays was by a limo company; they had a stretched Harley Davidson Ford F250 Pickup with bubble bath in the truck bed. It was quite amusing each time a bunch of soap bubble would come floating across the park.

Musical entertainment was provided by the Zen Daddy band. They covered most of the hits from the 80’s, 90’s, and the 00’s (is 00 the right way to do that?). Debbie and I thought the band did a fine job. Mr. Waugh himself came out and played a couple tunes on the harmonica, for “older” gentlemen I was quite impressed with this talent and lung capacity. If you have time take a look at Waugh’s Facebook page for more pics and videos of the event.

Our bike finished second in our class and after looking at the winner I have some clear directions on what do for next time. Of course that means more chrome!