The cool bike thread......

[vinnyb]

Well... errr… it's totally impractical, it's got clip-ons and rearsets and a brown saddle. Somebody's gonna give their seal of approval I would think. Not for me though, I think I like my bike a bit more 'normal' looking. Would love to be able to afford one though.

[Oldgit]

looks a bit like a squashed Ducati, rounded off at the edges.

[coffee]

I wonder if that's their own engine or a modded American V twin ?

[ogri48]

Riding back from visiting dads grave today, early evening in the fens under a sky full of dark clouds. Then the sun broke through a gap. That 1996 evo Fatboy Looks as good as the day it was built imho

[fazersharp]

What a great picture, well done

[ogri48]

Cheers mate just got lucky with the lighting I think the rest was down to the iPhone (6) and a very photogenic bike 

[Dudeofrude]

Riding back from visiting dads grave today, early evening in the fens under a sky full of dark clouds. Then the sun broke through a gap. That 1996 evo Fatboy Looks as good as the day it was built imho

Great pic! (And from on old potato phone too ?) looks like it belongs on a poster on an investment bankers office wall ?

I don't think anyone could argue that isnt a universally cool bike ?

I find most Harleys to have that cool vibe to them, its usually the riders than ruin the image of them ??

[Oldgit]

nice--I had a Softail Heritage but my kidneys were still vibrating half an hour after I got off the bike--so it had to go.
But this looks cool, but I suspect the same vibe problem, still looks the part tho.

[ogri48]

yup. no rubber engine mounts for this old bugger. And a big ol 42mm flatslide to really up the ante on lumpy low down. I stopped at a burger bar last summer, and a bloke with a mahoosive KTm told me all the mods he had done to get it to nearly 200bhp. I said 'I know just what you mean, ive got open slash cuts, 42mm mikuni, stage two coil and leads, performance lumpy cam and its nearly double the horsepower of the stock motor!!'
Sadly, bone stock and strangled as they were for the uk market back in the nineties, it made 38bhp. Thats quite the achievement for 1340 cc dontcha think? :lol :lol :lol 

[Oldgit]

Aye pretty good Ogri.

[Gnasher]

Not Harley fan myself, but if I was to have one it would be this one

[VNA]

[Millietant]

Looks like 400/650 Bros/Hawk - very underrated machines those - and that ones nice,[size=78%] tidy and understated.......best of all, not a sign of exhaust wrap, knobbly tyres, or a brown seat !!  [/size] :lol :lol

[VNA]

This isn't really cool, its just absolute bonkers.
And nope it's not a historic bike - it's a new build.
Should make 240bhp he says.

[Dudeofrude]

Must be like sliding down a bannister ??

[VNA]

It's mad, eh?
Here's the induction side;

[coffee]

Talking about dragsters,just reading about E.J.Potter,the Michigan Madman who came over from the states with a V8 lump in a Harley chassis,apparently he had no room for any transmission and would put the bike on a stand and run it up to the equivalent of 150mph and drop it onto the tarmac!!?? the resultant wheelspin would give him variable gearing enabling EJ to snake up the strip in spectacular amounts of tyre smoke and noise!! can you imagine the balls required to do that???.He even got into the Guinness book of records with an 8.68/172mph run in 1970 but the drag racing bosses wouldn't rcognise his speeds because his bike aptly named "The Widowmaker" didn't comply with their rules,didn't stop him packing places out wherever he went though,he's quoted as saying "drag racing is a way of making a living without working" what a character!!

[ogri48]

can i put this in the arena VNA? latest to need getting running. Its only a 250 ( '72 cb250 k4 ) but i think its go a lovely little vibe

[VNA]

That’s a sweet looking little thing.  She's got potential.  I take it there is a side cover missing?
You giving it the carb treatment?

[coffee]

What a lash! hated 'em then and hate 'em now, focin' orrible things. :finger