Just ride the bloody thing Bruce & stop asking so many questions
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The lazy Thunderbird does around 2400rpm in 6th. Good for about 1 million mpg. Use it on Longggg straights.
Shaken, not stirred in the shakey city!
I have the VL1700 Vulcan at the moment.
It will launch in 3rd, quite comfortably in second.
I tell you something else I'm beginning to dislike a bit on cruisers. Heel shifters. I've had a few...not drastic, but...uncomfortable moments by inadvertently knocking one into neutral with the heel shift - usually just after a stop for a left hand turn.
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Heel shifters: once I replaced the heel shifter lever on my Ultra with one that didn't have a stuffed spline, so I could set it to a useful angle, it was great. Never hit it inadvertently, it sat nicely just behind the heel and low enough that I didn't have to raise my foot a mile to activate it. Note that the default factory position for HD's heel shifters seems to be a good half-mile above the floorboard, and are greatly enhanced by some tweaking.
The heel shifter on my R3T is a bit different - the height's good, but it sits just behind the floorboard rather than on it. So there's quite a bit of foot travel from the toe shifter to the heel. I have also knocked it a couple of times trying to get the side-stand up or down[1], knocking the bike out of neutral. So far that's only been a PITA resulting in a stalled bike rather than anything more serious, but I'm a bit wary of that heel shifter now.
[1] The R3T's side stand is a bit of an arse trying to retrieve from underneath the floorboard. Frankly, other cruiser brands could learn a lot by studying HD's jiffy stand, which was a revelation. While I had the Ultra I used to mock friends for whingeing about their inability to park their bikes facing downhill - something that occurs completely without drama on a Harley, without having to turn the engine off and leave it in gear or any similar foolishness. Great for dealing with gates on rural driveways.
US 13s.
It's why I'm starting to like American made bikes more and more.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
When I read the last few posts I had to think: "Has my Softail Classic got a heel shifter?" I honestly couldn't remember. Anyway, seems it has. Shows how much use it gets. Never used them on my Road Kings either.
Maybe for safety's sake I should take it off... I have a vague memory of getting the end of my jeans caught in one once (still, most of my memories are vague these days).
I suggest Dropping a baker 6 speed in. My dad has a 2001 road king (5 gears stock) and we 'dropped' a Six-speed in over the winter break. Check out Bakers site they are the choice of the custom bike builders and I can see why. It drops RPM by about 2k and fith/six is super quiet unlike the h-d gears box..
I high;y reccomend you look into Baker if your looking for a 'better experance' the your current H-D gear box..
~Jack
Nothing better than getting on that open road, feet on those forward controls sitting on around 120km's with the old girl in 6th. they will tractor along all day.
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