Sunday, March 1, 2026

Keeping that running would be a challenge


 

14 comments:

  1. Looks like a 2.5-stroke 1902 Chucklehead with a with a pre-angulated tubular frame- nice!

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  2. Matt at the Wheels Through Time museum would have it running in a couple hours. Probably has the proper parts. Hour or so later he'd be running it around the garage and up and down the road in Maggie Valley.
    Alan E.

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    1. Provided they had all of the missing parts or can re-produce the part when this rolled off of "next" to current project on the list.

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    2. Thanks for that mention. Looked that place up. Whoa. Very nice. I'd like to check it out. My sis lives on the coast in NC and I may have to make a road trip. And I might even stop in and see her. LOL

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  3. Pretty simple. Simple is good.

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  4. Would need 15 minutes of maintaining for every hour rode. That one is missing some key elements. My grand dad and a friend rode two Harley’s from Iowa out to pikes peak around 1918 or so.

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  5. Talked recently with a guy who owned a Harley. He said it spent more time getting fixed than time spent on the road.

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    1. He should have fixed it himself, or learned prper maintenance

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  6. I don't know....maybe if you gave it to a Cuban mechanic he would have it running in peak form within the week.

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  7. Museum piece. Don't cobble it together with questionable parts just to make it run. It isn't going to be ridden anyway, so leave it alone, on display in a place of honor. Just my humble opinion.

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  8. Was that once a board track racer? The handlebars suggest it might have been a motordrome mount.

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  9. Harleys are crap bikes famous for converting gas into noise.

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  10. Lot has changed since HD made my Buell, and it starts on a dime.

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