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Nice find! If my memory is right, 81 Harleys were post AMF. AMF Harleys were the great leakers, with some nasty paint runs on the tank.
AMF was the reason I bought a Gold Wing for a tourer instead of the FLH.


Those little RD400's were very quick machines, not as quick as my Kaw H2 500, but the Yammies handled better.

Who's the invisable man peeing in the front yard .

Bike does look very clean for a shed must be some dry weather there . Around here a couple years will rust it right up .

Originally Posted by bluestang67

Who's the invisable man peeing in the front yard .

Its ghost pee`er

Originally Posted by shawnlee28

Its ghost pee`er

That is the latest greenie treehugger solar powered clothes dryer.It's all I use.

I rode it about 7 miles today, didn't go too far with the 06 tags.
I'm not real crazy about the ride. With the lowrider rake, what I think might be 2" over tubes and those narrow drag bars, all makes the forks floppy at low speeds. I also don't like the high gearing these bikes had, 1st seems more like second when taking off. And the foot controls need to be forward.
I think a decent set of bars and a 23 tooth counter sprocket would make a huge difference. I guess I'll run down to Sturgis and see what I can find, and maybe a different seat.

I know what you mean about the gearing. My softail has new channelled heads, and a hot cam, which realy changed the gearing all around. I'm thionking about changing out my front sprocket to even it up back to where it was before the new hoprse power. I seem to get stuck using the high end of third and the low end of fourth now, where as before, it just liked to cruise in fourth gear. The constant up down thing on it now drives me crazy!

these old shovelheads needed a 5 speed bad. This one is still 3 grand at 70, even with the tall gearing. Maybe I will get used to sliding the clutch to get it rolling. I have really rode for a long time so I felt like a big dork taking off from stop signs today with the front end wobbling and the engine revving then chug a chug about dieing after I dumped the clutch.
I do remember the 80 Sturgis I had was real hard to keep under the speed limit. It wanted to roll about 85.