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[Twolanerider]

last crazy idear..... can you modify the top of the fuel pump housing to give you the neede space?

No idea is too crazy to make something look good.  But, no, couldn't do that either.  Working right over that 90 degree connector for power to the fuel pump.  On the Road King dash as opposed to an Electra Glide dash there's nothing else up there either.  Already a flat surface.  So there's no space to reclaim or gain.

Even if one were so intent on making it work that you cut a center section of the top of the fuel unit housing and then recessed it down an inch and a half, then welded it all back up and finally had room for the speedometer as its made you'd then be shoving the sending unit through the bottom of the gas tank.  And, as much as I like the instrument, I don't like it well enough to do that much work  .

[porthole]

So Don, do the adverts show the profile of speedo and you missed  it, or is it a bit deceptive?


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[hogasm]

Oh yeah, also put this little bugger together tonight while I was out there.  My niece's Christmas .

She grew away from pink

[Twolanerider]

So Don, do the adverts show the profile of speedo and you missed  it, or is it a bit deceptive?


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On Kuryakyn's site all the pics are face on.  No way to know what it looks like from the side.  I remember reading a single sentence somewhere about it being somehow positioned for better viewing.  From that statement I'd never have expected a long oblique cylindrical tube coming out of its ass.

[Twolanerider]

She grew away from pink

Oh no, she still likes pink.  And all of her ATV gear (helmet, gloves, etc) are pink to match.  However..... 

Her cheerleading team colors are green and black.  So now many things are green and black.  So this is green and black.  Just like the helmet and the gloves and the jersey that will be under the tree...

[Midnight Rider]

Oh no, she still likes pink.  And all of her ATV gear (helmet, gloves, etc) are pink to match.  However..... 

Her cheerleading team colors are green and black.  So now many things are green and black.  So this is green and black.  Just like the helmet and the gloves and the jersey that will be under the tree...

Kermit's...but she's ot ready for that...

You're a damn good Uncle, Don...

[Twolanerider]

You're a damn good Uncle, Don...

I try.  Get a lot of time with her the way everyone's schedules work.  She makes it all worth it.  She likes to ride BSR so much it seems almost unfair to say "no" when she says she'd like to ride herself.  The ATV is a couple years old now.  No clutch or shifting there.  So she'll have to learn to use the foot and hand together.  But that'll come.  The thing she's going to hate is the kick starter .

[Midnight Rider]

I try.  Get a lot of time with her the way everyone's schedules work.  She makes it all worth it.  She likes to ride BSR so much it seems almost unfair to say "no" when she says she'd like to ride herself.  The ATV is a couple years old now.  No clutch or shifting there.  So she'll have to learn to use the foot and hand together.  But that'll come.  The thing she's going to hate is the kick starter .

That just builds character...hell, most of us (long in the tooth) on here started out with H shifts on the column, and even push buttons on the floor to start the motor...not on bikes, but nonetheless.  I've always said that if you learn to drive the basics, then you can later drive anything.  I know she loves her Uncle Donny...

[porthole]

On Kuryakyn's site all the pics are face on.  No way to know what it looks like from the side.  I remember reading a single sentence somewhere about it being somehow positioned for better viewing.  From that statement I'd never have expected a long oblique cylindrical tube coming out of its ass.

Just found it "Chrome Mounting “Pod” Improves Rider’s View of the Gauge".
I would say that catalog page is mis-leading. No doubt any of the "rub's" buying would not be concerned.

But it is ugly and not as useful as the SUBTOTF (or is it SBTORF, don't know if a correct acronym was ever settled on).

Call 'em, give 'em hell.

[Twolanerider]

Here you go Duane.  Head bolt bridges were found last night!

[porthole]

Here you go Duane.  Head bolt bridges were found last night!

Don't like them - like the finned versions that match the head better. Just my opin though, I think with the red boxes the finned version would look better.

But - it's those dam plug boots, dag nab it!

[porthole]

Your two bikes are going to complement each other nicely when done.
From what I remember the old girl has all this chromed and red powder coated. The new girl has the opposite parts chromed and red powder coated.

I do see some semblance of a theme here 

[Twolanerider]

Don't like them - like the finned versions that match the head better. Just my opin though, I think with the red boxes the finned version would look better.

But - it's those dam plug boots, dag nab it!

I considered the silver bridges.  Even had an old used one with a busted corner laying around so could set it in place for comparison.  I liked the splash of chrome better to break up the field a bit.  With the silver bridge you just "lost it" in the background.

I do see some semblance of a theme here  

Yes indeed.  Cues coming from differences between this and the red bike and from an old Road King I had before the red bike.  Picking details from it that I especially liked and could incorporate back in.  Then shaking it all together, discounting what doesn't flow and adding as necessary to make it work .

[Twolanerider]

Box came on a brown truck today.  It was an early Christmas!  The 2006 model rotor to finish the 3 stage charging system and the "Nostalgic" series footboards and brake pedal and other small bits I'm forgetting right now.  Even better was that had an hour and a half or so to kill in the shop tonight.

Found the heel guard where it had been carefully stored away and mounted it on a footboard.

[Twolanerider]

Then put on the footboard pads and the old obsolete footboard fringe.  NOS parts that have had around seemingly forever waiting for this use.  95th Anniversary colors on the welt.  Don't see a lot of the red powdercoat of the footboard itself.  But I like the look.