| Author | Message | ||
     Falloutnl |
"Uhhhhh..... guess who designed ... and patented .... the engine mounting system on that FXRC...... Yep ...... Erik F. Buell Those who know little should speak less." No shit? That's really interesting. | ||
| Fb1 |
Chris, nice! Back in the day I rode an '86 FXRP (ex-Seattle Police bike) for several years, enjoyed it very much. I just went through my lit collection and look what I found:   It's not quite as minty as most of my vintage moto porn, but there are no pages stuck together. You want it, it's yours.  Ferris | ||
| K12pilot |
OHHH... You are TOOO kind!! I would love it Thanks ) | ||
| Fb1 |
Cool, PM me your mailing address (I've got it somewhere from one of the BWB auctions but just took a quick lap through the computer and can't find it). But FIRST: I just collated all my vintage H-D porn that has anything to do with the FXR or any of its variants. I've got 11 brochures, all of them near-mint to mint, beginning with: - A Cycle World/H-D "official reprint" of CW's Dec. '81 issue with their cover story introducing the brand-new '82 FXRS; - two different '82 H-D brochures (one "Custom" and one "Cruising", which introduce the brand-new FXR and FXRS Super Glide II); - one '83 H-D brochure ("Cruising & Custom": FXE, FXR, FXWG, FXSB and FXRS); - three different '84 H-D brochures (full line; "Custom": XLS, FXSB, FXWG, FXST and FXRS; and a four-page brochure introducing the FXRT); - one '85 H-D brochure ("Touring": FXRT Sport Glide (including two pages, with photos and illustrations, devoted to showcasing the front fork anti-dive system), Tour Glide and Electra Glide); - two different '86 H-D brochures (one introducing the Sport Glide "Grand Touring Edition" and one introducing the FXRS Low Rider Sport); - and the Spring '87 issue of H-D's Enthusiast magazine, featuring the new FXLR on the cover and a six-page feature piece on the same. Might you be interested in this collection? Need pix before you decide? It's all pretty cool stuff which, along with the '87 full line brochure, nicely chronicles the history of the FXR from the introduction of the Shovelhead FXR and FXRS Super Glide II's in '82, all the way through the Evo models of '87. Let me know. FB (Message edited by fb1 on January 10, 2017) | ||
| Fb1 |
This is pretty cool: In late '85 I was riding an Evo 883 that I'd just bought new earlier that summer. I wanted MORE HARLEY! and started shopping around for a Big Twin. I stopped at H-D of Tacoma, where I'd bought the 883, and priced a new, leftover '85 FXRS. I still have their proposal:   This was before the "$3995 when you buy, $3995 when you trade" promotion and trading in my Sporty and ending up with a nearly $5k balance didn't really appeal to me. I motored up to Seattle to see what they could do and ended up trading the Sporty on a gently-used '86 FXRP (the Seattle PD had leased the bike as a demo; it only had 4k miles on it, and still had the wig-wags!). I'll tell ya what: Trading up from an 883 Sportster to a 1340 Evo FXR was just what the doctor ordered!  I just checked; MSRP on a '17 Low Rider in Vivid Black is $14,749....... | ||
| K12pilot |
Ferris PM sent, Thanks I was in the same boat with my 883 they had the buy back deal going on. I almost bought the LR Conv. But I bought my first S2 instead & kicked the sporty to the curb, I wish I WOULDA!!! | ||
| Fb1 |
^ PM rec'd, replied to. | ||
| Court |
I was in the same boat . . . bought a 1987-1/2 883 for $3,995 when they had the "trade up to a Big Twin in the next 12 months and get $3,995 credit". I screwed up and bought 9 bikes that year . . including the 1977 XLCR and the 1983 XR-1000. I got the credit for the FLH I bought (and loved). Also bought 3 883 Sportsters the same day . . turned one into a road racer for the Championship Cup series . . one into a dirt tracker and another into what had to be the most amazing customer sportster ever made and eventually served as the impetus to Barny . . . a fairly legendary Buell S1 that was the first Buell to ever circle Daytona. | ||
| Reepicheep |
LOL. Did you put the road racer back to stock after a season and "trade it in for a $3995 credit on a big twin"? That would have been pretty funny... and as annoyed as the shop would have been, they probably would have thought it was pretty cool as well. (They should do it but demand your racing livery and put it in a window.) | ||
| Kc_zombie |
Oh Crap! I think I'm developing an FX obsession. Thanks (I think). Does that mean I need a dew rag?  | ||
| Damnut |
Oh Crap! I think I'm developing an FX obsession. Thanks (I think). Does that mean I need a dew rag? Chaps with tassles will do............. | ||
| Fb1 |
Chris, do you mind if I jack your thread s'more? Sanka!  ---------------------- I screwed up and bought 9 bikes that year . . including the 1977 XLCR and the 1983 XR-1000. Court, I've got five pieces of vintage H-D porn with your name on them; here's but a small sampling:  (^ From H-D's "Chronicles of a Legend - The Harley-Davidson Traveling Museum" booklet, © 1992)   | ||
| K12pilot |
JACK AWAY  NO DEW RAGS OR ASS LESS FRINGED CHAPS ALLOWED IN THIS FORUM!!!!  | ||
| Wiscokid |
Pics or you're lying! Court you have done a lot but out of all the years of badweb I've never heard of you owning so many HD's, got some proof? Im sure you burnt all the pics last year... | ||
| Court |
The fun one that is still around here . . in the hundreds of odd posters was a gift from Europe. In what must surely have been one of the worst examples of "the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing" . . . the Harley-Davidson marketing folks did a wonderful poster of the XLCR Cafè Racer. The only problem is that . . . as some may recall. . . the dual disc brakes on the XLCR looked good but didn't do very much to slow/stop the motorcycle and it got kinda nasty with customer complaints. Well . . the poster is a dandy . . .there is an XLCR charging along . . . with the, now, infamous caption . . . "THE THUNDER THAT WILL NOT STOP" Yeah . . the scrambled to get them all back but a few got out. I got the nicest letter from the United Kingdom from a reader that basically said . . ."I didn't know what to do with this and knew you'd take care of it". That's right up there with the poster of the Buell that was actually a Yamaha . . . Yep . . . new marketing genius thought Buell just made shirts, hats, keychains and so forth and did a bit poster of a motorcycle . . .looks to be a Yammy but who the heck knows . . that says BUELL. We were at the New York IMS show when they posted it up . . . I quickly grabbed a Leatherman . . and sliced the offending bike from the poster. Yeah . . . lots of the pics got lost in the boating accident . . . I've only got a couple thousand left. | ||
| Oopezoo |
I love these random threads that bring all sorts of interesting shit into light  | ||
| S1owner |
Court any goid online files of the thunder that dont stop That would be a great garage poster | ||
| Fb1 |
Pics or you're lying! Chris, in an effort to steer this thread back in the direction of your new motor (and in keeping with the above edict, handed down by someone with a grand total of exactly two posts here on BWB...heavy sigh...), I present the following for your FXR-ish entertainment. I hope I don't have to somehow prove that these are actually MY pix...  I ran my FXRP with a California Sidecar sidecar for about a year; pretty bizarre way to satisfy one's riding jones, and the learning-how-to-attach-and-successfully-pilot project briefly interrupted the transition from Cop Glide (full fairing, tractor seat so tall I needed a step stool to climb on, funky/clunky plastic dash to mount the radio gear, big metal bracket on the rear fender in lieu of a back seat for mounting some other PD-type stuff, etc. - note the gauge location in this pic, the too-tall handlebars, and the industrial-looking tank badges) to super-sano Super Glide for a spell. My two-year-old son Wade thought the whole riding-around-in-a-sidecar thing was simply mah-velous. | ||
| Fb1 |
Wade went on two major tours while we had the hack, one from our home in Washington to Glacier Nat'l Park in Montana, and a run down to the Redwoods in Northern California to visit his paternal great-grandparents (Wade was named after my mother's father).  ^ Bottom pic is Going-to-the-Sun Road -- yummy!  People always notice a hack, and when they'd look over and see Wade in it - we had him buckled into a child's car seat, which was buckled into the hack - they'd typically honk and wave. Wade, at the ripe old age of two and a half, had the "parade wave" down to a fine art. In this pic you can kinda see the red switchgear for all the po-po type stuff (various lights, including the wig-wags, siren, etc.), which at this point had all been removed during the transformation process.  Note the funky/clunky plastic dash still remaining, and the custom-trimmed license plate, just enough meat to be legal. Also notice how FILTHY the bike is - we were staying in Polebridge, Montana, about four zillion miles up a road on the northwest side of GNP similar, I imagine, to the AlCan. | ||
| Fb1 |
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| Fb1 |
This is in Polebridge (any further north and you'd be in Canada):   | ||
| Fb1 |
Wade liked to meet me at the top of our road when I'd come home from w*rk and catch a ride back to our cabin:   The transformation to Super Glide is largely complete at this point. That's a new gas tank, dash and factory tank emblems, custom-painted in Seattle Police Blue (an actual color, by duPont I believe) to match the fenders. The hack is gone by now, sold back to the guy that I bought it from, for the same money I originally paid for it. (Message edited by jerry_haughton on January 13, 2017) | ||
| Fb1 |
Last one. Used to have more, but sadly the rest of my pix (along with all of my firearms) were lost in a tragic boating accident many years ago. (Lost the damn boat, too...)  (Message edited by jerry_haughton on January 13, 2017) | ||
| Ltbuell |
..way way cool pics...thanks for sharing and sorry for the lose of the boat and all of your things.Pics of you remind me of my one uncle(looks kind of like him back in the 70's and 80's as well as my one cousin Greg too...his oldest son and both are still here).LT | ||
| K12pilot |
BUELLSHIT!!! Those are internet pix!! SWEET ride....ahhh the GOOD ol days. Thats for sharing  Sorry you lost a boat also (( | ||
| Court |
Is this thing on . . . . (Message edited by court on January 13, 2017) | ||
| Court |
oops (Message edited by court on January 13, 2017) | ||
| Prior |
Ferris, Cool to see the pics to go along with the stories. I can vouch they are real. I never did hear the story about the boat though... | ||
| Court |
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| Fb1 |
"THE THUNDER YOU CAN'T HOLD BACK." I would say, based on the significant pad wear on the rotors (including the giant score mark on the right disc) that it wasn't for a lack of trying! |
