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[Hoist!]

I never thought much about my gas gage. It worked fine. It came with a red LCD Flush Mount Gas Gage. The Speedo/Tach also had red backlighting. So I never thought about it one way or another.I recently replaced my Speedo/Tach with the black-faced programmable color one. I run the blue backlight on it, and it goes nicely with the blue pinstriping. But I thought it would be nice if they had a blue LCD Gas Gage. After all, there's no red on the bike. And the blue does go with all the pinstriping. Still never thought much more about it. Until I rode Rich 07's bike the other day. His B/I SERK came with a blue Gas Gage!!! Then it made a little sense to me. Blue for the Blue SERK. Red for the Red SERK. But what do you put on the Black SERK. Red to match the Speedo backlighting? Or Blue to match the Pinstriping? Well, I feel it should be blue to match the pinstriping, and that they had installed the wrong one on my bike. This must be the case since Rich's bike came with the blue one, right? Well that logic was good enough for my SM who's swapping it out for me. I thought some of you might find this interesting. But look what you guys got me doing with that OCD stuff of yours! Changing the color of a gas gage! I would have never thought about that before I joined this place. Holy crap, OCD is actually contagious!

I have an appointment in 2 weeks to get that done, along with the PM Calipers, Hi-perf. motor mount and stabilizer links, Sta-bos, neck bearings, and 12.5" W1's Handlebars! And that should do it for Cybil for a while! The hard bags should be here by then too. That's cutting it close, but it's still 3 days before my self-imposed deadline of the end of August!

Hoist!

[hdbrad03]

I don't know about the color logic because Harley is not that smart. The wife's bike is blue ans she has a RED fuel guage. Maybe the Factory screwed up and put the wrong color on the bike. NO THEY WOULDN'T SCREW UP.

[BlueFlames]

My CACO Blue Serk has red leds as well....  They match the red background on the rest of the guages.

[leoniru]

Ditto for my CaCo SERK ----- RED LEDs on the fuel gauge and speedo/tach.


leoniru

[SOKOOLJ]

Hoit,

 I have the CACO with red, as well. BTW, glad you got the beast home and runnin. It'll be nice when you get'r completed.

SOKOOL

[harleyteam]

HEY HOIST


WHAT ,, you never heard of a black light before.

come on dang it. I thought you were an inovative person.  DARE TO BE DIFFERENT.

[SOKOOLJ]

HEY HOIST


WHAT ,, you never heard of a black light before.

come on dang it. I thought you were an inovative person.  DARE TO BE DIFFERENT.

I'd classify it as OCD!!! Now that you "dared" him, he'll find a way to make it happen. 

[Hoist!]

Yeah, A Black Light backlit Speedo, and I'll use my 4 decade old Day Glow paint for the numbers! How psychadelic man!

Hoist!

[BalDeagle]

hey Howie my CACO has red as well - would like kind of cool with blue though.

Do the lists of things to do never end ?

Nige

[FreestateSE3]

hey Howie my CACO has red as well - would like kind of cool with blue though.

Do the lists of things to do never end ?Nige

Ummmmmmm, no.

[Twolanerider]

Yeah, A Black Light backlit Speedo, and I'll use my 4 decade old Day Glow paint for the numbers! How psychadelic man!

Hoist!

That brings back some memories.  Still have vivid, if not completely accurate, memories of putting black light bulbs in my folk's basement and painting the lines on the table, top of the net and ping pong balls with day glo.  Having those balls suddenly change direction right at you coming off a black paddle made for a shock sometimes.

[Fired00d]

That brings back some memories.  Still have vivid, if not completely accurate, memories of putting black light bulbs in my folk's basement and painting the lines on the table, top of the net and ping pong balls with day glo.  Having those balls suddenly change direction right at you coming off a black paddle made for a shock sometimes.

Hmm, I bet you used album covers to separate things like I did too.  

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[Twolanerider]

Hmm, I bet you used album covers to separate things like I did too.  

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

I miss vinyl sometimes. 



(and the music too)

[MJZ]

Sounds familiar but too much smoke and too many ludes to remember much. My parents had a really big storeroom off their carport they told me I could use it just to keep me and friends out of the house. Of course I painted the walls black, put in black light tubes and used dayglo paint for my very limited artistic abilities. We all thought is was mind-blowing as we listened to Grand Funk Railroad and Steppenwolf and stared at the day glo peace symbols and worried about going to Nam. I sure wish I had a picture of those walls, amazing I lived through all that. And my wife wonders why I can't remember anything she says 5 minutes after she says it.
Hummmmmmmmmmmmm, memory lane.

[DoCPooF]

Hmm...mine is red too.

I may try to get the blue one.

I have to take the bike back in 2 weeks for my 3rd gas gauge descending unit.  First 2 crapped out.  Always read full, which I wouldn't complain about until I ran out of gas the first time.