Ever since doing a job in in September near Berlin, NH and taking my old girl HD 86' Tour Glide to ride and finding near perfect riding country, my latent biker has got new vigor. After returning from NH I immediately started looking for a new scoot and purchased in late November as reported here. Since purchasing I immediately started making it "mine", like all bikers, by doing modifications. Besides small items like windshield trim and pouches, Mustang seat, and bags rails, I decided to give it a Street Glide look by removing the tour pak, relocating the license plate with a Road King light bar.
Now that I have the new bike, I decided to do some much need reconditioning of the 86'. It still had the crunched front fender from my deer run in last August and after 27 years the oil lines needed a going over. I'm old and can't do the contortions I use to sooooo, I bought a lift table. Motorcycles, quads, lawn tractors and a host of other gizmos convinced me it was the right thing to do. Glad I did, what a nice thing to have. Since I got it I've had everything on it (friends stuff too) ....motorcycles, quads, mowers, pressure washers. I just did fender, oil lines, wheel, and radio work on the 86 and I know I moved work height 10 times. I did a review of the table and it's now posted on NH Pro Equipment's blog. BTW .... If you ever need tools Clark Heinz at NH Pro is a stand up guy to deal with, I don't think I've seen a bad review and after personal experience I now know why!
After all this, the wife expressed some interest in biking again. She drove motorcycles in her younger years soooo we bought her a starter bike, 2007 Honda VT750 Spirit with 1700 miles on it. It's was the typical little ole man story ...... 70 year old man, bought new, $1400 of mods on a $6500 machine, bike is mint. I thought it was worth the $3600 I gave him for it.
Now that I have the new bike, I decided to do some much need reconditioning of the 86'. It still had the crunched front fender from my deer run in last August and after 27 years the oil lines needed a going over. I'm old and can't do the contortions I use to sooooo, I bought a lift table. Motorcycles, quads, lawn tractors and a host of other gizmos convinced me it was the right thing to do. Glad I did, what a nice thing to have. Since I got it I've had everything on it (friends stuff too) ....motorcycles, quads, mowers, pressure washers. I just did fender, oil lines, wheel, and radio work on the 86 and I know I moved work height 10 times. I did a review of the table and it's now posted on NH Pro Equipment's blog. BTW .... If you ever need tools Clark Heinz at NH Pro is a stand up guy to deal with, I don't think I've seen a bad review and after personal experience I now know why!
After all this, the wife expressed some interest in biking again. She drove motorcycles in her younger years soooo we bought her a starter bike, 2007 Honda VT750 Spirit with 1700 miles on it. It's was the typical little ole man story ...... 70 year old man, bought new, $1400 of mods on a $6500 machine, bike is mint. I thought it was worth the $3600 I gave him for it.