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[Twolanerider]

Here's what I've been waiting for.  Did get 125 or so on the bike this afternoon and evening. 

Love the way it handles.  It loves to lean and dive through corners.  Surprisingly agile for a big bike with stock suspension.  Going straight down the road it's just sweet.  The stock windscreen is way too short to be anything other than decoration.  But that'll get taken care of soon.

As always I adore the look of the Road Glide instrument cluster/inner from the rider's perspective.  It's just a cool like have that big expanse laying out there before.  Also love the look of these silver instruments. 

Bike runs good too.  Exhaust is pretty quiet.  Engine runs about as I expected it would.  Seems to catch its breath about 3200 and pulls best from there.  It sounds very content loping down the highway at 2800-3000.

Everything works.  It needs a forward shift lever replaced (eaten out inside) and the radio's handlbar mounted volume switch is functional but a bit limp or droopy.  Not sure what's going on there.

It's got brand new Dunlop D402s and they seem to track as straight as could be.  No hint of rear steer or wobble anyplace I tried to generate it today.

In the "Don's an idiot" category close to the end of the run I realized I didn't know this gas gauge yet and the prior owner didn't use the trip set for fuel.  So about the time I was wondering what the area between an 1/8th and empty on the gauge really meant the bike sputtered.  Was a block to a station and made it fine.  Then looked down and didn't see my push button on the fuel door but instead the old key lock. Chit.  Key was at home on the work bench.

Another bike was getting gas two pumps down and I bummed his barrel key.  All was good with the world.  Rode it on home and put it to bed.

It needs:

A different windshield.
Better brakes.  Hopefully a set of Lyndalls will be all it takes.
One shift lever.


Guess that's about it .


By the way, just in case anyone is ever in need.  Generic 1/2" long #10x32 wellnuts from someplace like Ace hardware or a home center store work just fine for the windshield mounting on these things. 

I picked up a dozen of the damn things and a dozen little black nylon washers for the windshield screws all for about five bucks.

[hard10]

You're really making me jealous! Congratulations!

[SBB]

You're really making me jealous! Congratulations!

AJ

SERG's are a disease.
The kind we all should have.
I love mine.
You can buy a new bike with all their troubles or get a SERG and life is wonderful!

On mine I changed the baffle on the ProPipe and it goes back to the dyno this afternoon!
It doesn't make a lot of power but it does make quality power!
That's the tale of a good 95" motor!

AJ, they are out there, get you one!
You will love it!

 

[miker]

Yeah, someday....any color     

[WFP]

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Congrats Don!

This is my favorite color scheme!

[Hobo]

There sure was a lot of posting in  SERG section this weekend. Don congratulations on the new SERG, she looks great. I'm glad you like it as much as you thought you would. We need to get togather soon and ride. The weather is supposed to be nice here this week. How about Wed? (assuming I get mine done, story for another thread) Can't wait to look at your new bike!

Hobo

[Smiler]

The owner of my local dealership reckons this bike was the best the MoCo produced.  Great paintwork.  Enjoy

[Twolanerider]

Congrats Don!

This is my favorite color scheme!

Thank you Bill. It does seem to be a nice one too.  Hopefully your schedule coming through here to Sedona will be such that I'm still here too and you'll get to try it out a bit.

[Twolanerider]

The owner of my local dealership reckons this bike was the best the MoCo produced.  Great paintwork.  Enjoy

I've certainly found no major deficiencies so far.  The cam chest is a concern for the 2000s.  But that's serviceable.  Thanks!

[Twolanerider]

There sure was a lot of posting in  SERG section this weekend. Don congratulations on the new SERG, she looks great. I'm glad you like it as much as you thought you would. We need to get togather soon and ride. The weather is supposed to be nice here this week. How about Wed? (assuming I get mine done, story for another thread) Can't wait to look at your new bike!

Hobo

I can't on Wednesday Cary.  Would love to but no time.  We'll do it soon though.  We'll have to get pics of as many of them lined up together as we can manage.

As close as this was to you it's a surprise you didn't know about it.  Was on the west side of Spfld.  266 out to FR293.  Maybe three miles from the edge of town. 

Owner said it had been in the area since he moved there four or five years ago. He only logged 2000-2500 a year on it so it wasn't out a lot.  But what it got was local. 

It's staying in the area now too.  So we'll have another SERG for the SW MO/NW AR stable. 

Will touch base and we'll figure out a day to get them all out together .

[Hobo]

I can't on Wednesday Cary.  Would love to but no time.  We'll do it soon though.  We'll have to get pics of as many of them lined up together as we can manage.

As close as this was to you it's a surprise you didn't know about it.  Was on the west side of Spfld.  266 out to FR293.  Maybe three miles from the edge of town. 

Owner said it had been in the area since he moved there four or five years ago. He only logged 2000-2500 a year on it so it wasn't out a lot.  But what it got was local. 

It's staying in the area now too.  So we'll have another SERG for the SW MO/NW AR stable. 

Will touch base and we'll figure out a day to get them all out together .

Scooter said that he had seen the red one on the highway going other direction a couple of times, but didn't know the guy was a local. Small world huh?

Hobo

[grandpadoc]

A different seat that moved me up a bit might kill two birds with one stone.  Something that will require more riding to be sure and a bit more homework.

My Mustang seat moves me forward about 1.5" and this gives the passenger a lot more room also. Doc

[Twolanerider]

My Mustang seat moves me forward about 1.5" and this gives the passenger a lot more room also. Doc

Speaking of passenger space.... 

Is the pre-05 detachable rack the difference that spaces the tour pak farther to the rear?  Have had several Electra Glides or Road Kings in my bike trailer with tour paks on the bikes.  The rear door always closed fine.  May not have been tons of room to spare.  But there was room.

This Road Glide, however, had none.  Even as far back as the pipes stick out there was an inch of clearance between them and trailer door.  The tour pak hit the door though.  Or at least it would have if I'd not been looking for clearance issues the first time I closed the lid.  Wouldn't have been a little bit either.  Hard obstruction. 

So the tour pak on this bike hangs farther rearward than the SEEG or a few other non Road Glide touring bikes that have been hauled in that trailer before.  My old 2000 Road King Classic has been in the same trailer with the same detachable rack as is on the Road Glide.  But it had the little leather baby tour pak so not a direct comparison.

Just odd this one hangs out the back so far.  The tall windshield that was on the bike would've hit the trailer's lid when I folded that lid down also.  Even going down from the 18" that was on the bike to the 12" that's coming I'm concerned will be a tight fit.  The problem isn't directly the screen's height but that it's so much farther forward.

More to figure out; that's all. 

[cuthbertss]

Speaking of passenger space.... 

Is the pre-05 detachable rack the difference that spaces the tour pak farther to the rear?  Have had several Electra Glides or Road Kings in my bike trailer with tour paks on the bikes.  The rear door always closed fine.  May not have been tons of room to spare.  But there was room.

This Road Glide, however, had none.  Even as far back as the pipes stick out there was an inch of clearance between them and trailer door.  The tour pak hit the door though.  Or at least it would have if I'd not been looking for clearance issues the first time I closed the lid.  Wouldn't have been a little bit either.  Hard obstruction. 

So the tour pak on this bike hangs farther rearward than the SEEG or a few other non Road Glide touring bikes that have been hauled in that trailer before.  My old 2000 Road King Classic has been in the same trailer with the same detachable rack as is on the Road Glide.  But it had the little leather baby tour pak so not a direct comparison.

Just odd this one hangs out the back so far.  The tall windshield that was on the bike would've hit the trailer's lid when I folded that lid down also.  Even going down from the 18" that was on the bike to the 12" that's coming I'm concerned will be a tight fit.  The problem isn't directly the screen's height but that it's so much farther forward.

More to figure out; that's all. 

Funny... but the obvious question....  maybe you need a bigger freakin trailer???

[Twolanerider]

Funny... but the obvious question....  maybe you need a bigger freakin trailer???

For anything else it's hauled, no; it's been ok.  Even a couple of big Valkyries.  This SERG just isn't going to fit right though. 

The tour pak might move forward on the rack. I've not looked to see which holes it's mounted in.  That might or might not solve the rear end clearance issue.  The fairing on these is so much farther forward than it is on the Electra Glides, however, that windshield clearance issues in the front might be unavoidable.

It's a great little enclosed trailer to pull.  The lid raises up for headroom while loading then closes back down.  But it's forward clearance obviously isn't done with a Road Glide in mind.  Would guess similar problems in the front would be seen with a Wing.

Fortunately it's easy to take the wind screen on and off.  Even more fortunately with luck it'll never be in the trailer again.  Planning ahead to make some potential future problem easier, however, I want to know now what I'll need to do to get it in and out.