G'day everyone.
Things are going well if I am to believe the PT ladies who come in three times a week and torture my old ass. I am able to bend my knee to about 85 degrees and strighten it to about 175. That's good since before the surgery I was at about 75 and 165. Still a lot of swelling and mid grade pain. As to my heart issues, I am not sure. Seems like I may have some lingering problem there with fatigue, but it is too soon to tell.
So I've been checking out the posts around the site on the new 07 models. A couple of things come to mind. First, I see people chatting up doing a 103 to 110 conversion. I have to ask, if you're gonna get into your motor why not do the 113 ? Maybe the Dawg or Hubbard can answer this. Next, reading the specs, there are a few cool little items listed. Remote Saddlebag and tour-pak openers ? So this means there is a new locking system on hard luggage ?
Overall I have to say I like what I see in 07 and I'll tell you why. To most of us a Harley-Davidson Motorcycle is a pushrod air cooled V-twin. Yes, the V-rods are exceptional and the engineering behind them is superb, but if all H-D's were water cooled overhead valve motors. a lot of what we all love about H-D would be gone forever. Those of us on this site are the best of the best (or worst of the worst) when it comes to bench racing the H-D Mfgr process. We dream of 120" factory motors with Perewitz paint jobs and chrome everything. So the factory came out with a 110 and somehow that's a letdown. I think not. I think it represents a big step for the MoCo. When you stop and think of how many years it took H-D to get beyond an 80" motor and now just 8 years since the intro of the 88, we are at 110. I think that's significant. I think it represents a forward thinking company trying mightily to keep it's boots planted firmly in the history we all cherish. I am glad that the V-rod is still the V-rod and the rest of the model lineup moves slowly forward. I for one need to have some things in my life I can look to as not leaving me behind.
There's a song playing in my head, can't make out the words just yet, but the tune is of the open road with friends waiting at the end. I think of MV and seeing all of you whenever it plays in my mind and I smile knowing there's good days ahead
Adios Amigos
Vaya con Dios.
Big B
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