Yea, and my hearing problems and my........never mind. 
Where's Lou (grandpadoc)? I know he has a chopper back in the day. He should be posting up here.
Not exactly choppers and I still can't remember the exact year but I can tell you what decade.
I bought the 86 Heritage in 87 and totaled it a couple of years. Fortunately for me, that guy that pulled out of a donut shop driveway and drove into the side of my stock Heritage had good insurance.
It took me a few months to decide.....yep, strip it down, build the motor....an S&S Sidewinder kit, bars to the stars, low profile p-pad and a Supertrapp 2 into 1. While I was trying to figure it all out, I bought an 89 Sporster just to get me through the down time. The shop I'd bought it from had just finished putting the big tank, bobbed rear fender, forward pegs and brake, etc. It was black and silver but I'd already had one that color, so I had my painter paint it Hot Red and Bright White and then had it pin stripped by Mike Cline (he did my show bike above). The Sportster got so much attention in those colors that when I finally got the Heritage back up, I had my painter paint it exactly the same. Some thought it was a "his & hers" even though I was single at the time. Eventually, several ladies rode that Sportster over the next few years. Both of these bikes were in the harley hardback book called Rebels With A Cause by Gail DeMarco and in the movie Rescue Me with Michael Dudikoff and Amy Dolenz (Micky Dolenz of the Monkees' daughter).
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