What did you do to Your Tri-Glide Today?

[Jd1a]

212 mile lunch run to Bagdad, AZ. Copper County Bar & Grill, good food.

 

[TonkaDriver]

212 mile lunch run to Bagdad, AZ. Copper County Bar & Grill, good food.

I live here. Would have been good to meet you. Let me know next time and I might be able to meetup with you.

Kurt

 

[Jd1a]

Kurt, will do.

 

[PosseRider]

Took a 100 + lunch ride today. :clapping: Rain called for next 2 days. 80 here today

 

[DK Custom Products]

A little something fun.

Teaser Video-



Kevin

 

[hydraglide]

This past Sunday I gave my newly acquired Harley heated gear (under layer jacket and pants, socks and gloves/grips) a good 225 mile workout (temps started around freezing and didn’t get above 40).

:yahoo:

No complaints… seems to be worth every cent since they have extended my riding season dramatically.

 

[hydraglide]

Decided to adjust my Legends from the “recommended starting point” of “3” (as installed by my dealer) to “2” in the quest of softening up the ride a bit.

Not that I was unhappy with the ride on position 3, but as we know, trikes don’t feel like our old 2 wheelers and I just accepted the ride where it was. Truthfully I forgot they were adjustable.

Well, glad I made the switch! Position 2 is noticeably more “forgiving” without being too mushy. Nice…:yahoo:

I don’t know why it took me so long to crawl under and make the adjustment, but I’m certainly enjoying the improvement in ride comfort!

 

[Ray55]

Killed a lot of bugs with it. Out in the big sand box it was rather warm. Palm Springs/ Palm Desert 105 Deg and no shade. About 280 Miles in the hot sun.

 

[Cagmo]

Avon front tire

I ordered a new Avon Cobra Chrome front tire for my 2016 TriGlide online last week from Summit Racing. It was on my front porch today. Good job.

 

[hydraglide]

Rode nearly 400 miles into east central Iowa to scope out a potential HOG Chapter run out to the National Motorcycle Museum in Anamosa.

Sad to hear they will be closing the doors and liquidating the museum collection this fall.

The ride was great. Rode US Route 30 most all the way.

Route 66 gets all the attention but some of the Americana I viewed while taking this scouting trip along the old “Lincoln Highway” was pretty cool.

 

[Notgrownup]

My hydraulic clutch line was frayed at the slave cylinder so I ordered a new on, It leaked at the slave cylinder connection like a sieve. Come to find out there is a crush convex brass washer available on a service bulletin that a fellow member on HDforums told me about. The dealer didn’t know this and wasn’t any help.

if any of you ever have this issue, it exists. Not a O-ring as i thought but a crush brass washer.

 

[Cagmo]

Avon front tire

Pretty good for an online order, hope it works good for you

Thanks, Jack. I've put 22K on my current Avon front trike tire with absolutely no problems.

 

[Notgrownup]

I’ve never had much luck with Avon Tires.

 

[Notgrownup]

Today I added the Ciro BIG ASS rear passenger drink to replace the ragged Kuryakyn one that came with the bike. Mrs Notgrownup likes it

 

[Mykneesbehurtin]

The wife and I rode into Dayton and meet up with friends at the Dublin Pub for dinner. She is just 5 weeks out from a left knee replacement so for right now our rides have been close to home.

 

[Zammy]

Changed out a non working Love Jugs Mighty Mite fan, it was toasted with melted wires inside the casing. Got the metal retention ring out but struggled getting the bad fan out, it seemed to be swelled up from the melted wires. Anyway, all done and working fine again.

 

[hydraglide]

Yesterday I completed my first “Iron Butt”… Me and a buddy booked 1032 miles riding round trip from Lisle Illinois to Turrell Arkansas and back.

19 hours and 25 minutes. Left at 3am and FROZE (for June at least… had to crank up the grips to 11!). Glad I had my heated jacket liner… 45 degrees in June! WT?

Reached 94 degrees in Arkansas, quite the swing!



Waited out an intense “20% chance of rain” gully washer in Turrell.



Only soreness I’ve had today is in my right elbow. Thanks to my Butt Buffer sheepskin seat cover, all good on my bottom end…LOL!

Already planning next years run!

 

[rhino 2]

Yesterday I completed my first “Iron Butt”… Me and a buddy booked 1032 miles riding round trip from Lisle Illinois to Turrell Arkansas and back.

19 hours and 25 minutes. Left at 3am and FROZE (for June at least… had to crank up the grips to 11!). Glad I had my heated jacket liner… 45 degrees in June! WT?

Reached 94 degrees in Arkansas, quite the swing!

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Waited out an intense “20% chance of rain” gully washer in Turrell.

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Only soreness I’ve had today is in my right elbow. Thanks to my Butt Buffer sheepskin seat cover, all good on my bottom end…LOL!

Already planning next years run!

…..And yes it is kinda chilly for June..

 

[Zammy]

Way to go Ron ThumbUp

 

[Zammy]

[SUB]​Got a short breakfast run in yesterday, about 90 miles. We left at 8 AM and were home by 11:30, brutally hot with a heat index of 105.[/SUB]

 

[DK Custom Products]

Yesterday:

Changed engine oil, cleaned oil filter, changed primary fluid.

This change I am giving the new HD primary/trans gear oil a try in the primary.

Just changed the trans a few thousand miles ago.

Today:

Swapping out the 828 for the 606 intake. Nothing wrong with the 828, I really like it. But some folks want to see the 606 with the polished finned cover on my upcoming trip, so am doing that and also fitting the chrome servo cover.

Tomorrow:

Pulling the latest prototype NexGen shocks and putting them on the suspension dyno to see how they read after 10K miles. Will be mounting a "production" pair of NexGen shocks back on the TG.

Installing a new set of slip-ons (with the new cam, the slip-ons I have been running are just too sharp a sound for hour after hour of riding)

Things already done in the last month:

Stealth LED Driving Lights mounted to engine guard

New Feuling camplate and oil pump

Shorty Sump plug

818H cam

Removed prototype FB16's and installed production FB16's

Installed RBT LED Mud Flaps (these were first installed on the 2014)

Might be forgetting some things, all I can remember right now.

Pumped about upcoming trip Mary and I are making.

Kevin

 

[rhino 2]

Washed my heated jacket..And put it away for the summer…..It doesn’t snow much here in the summer… Don’t even think I use the snowblower once this winter..? Every year we get less snow but seems like we get more rain…?

 

[DK Custom Products]

Rode 95 miles today with the new gear oil in the primary.

Seemed strange to put that heavy of an oil in there, but they say it is for the trans and the primary, and others have used it with good reports.

It rode great today, clutch was smooth, not the least bit grabby, which I sort of thought it would be. Also, no slippage.

Time will tell if it performs just as well after thousands of miles, AND being in cold weather.

​​​​​​​I'll report again in a month or so, we will be doing some high elevation cold weather riding next month.

Kevin

 

[DK Custom Products]

I must be getting close to having ridden 200k miles on Tri Glides.

Up until yesterday I had had only one time that I plugged a rear tire with a slow leak. It was back around 2015, on a road trip a few States over, and there was a wood screw imbedded in the tread of the right rear tire.

Yesterday (should have take some pics) when checking tire pressures, the right rear was low on the 2019 Tri Glide. Got some soapy water and found two pinhole leaks.

One was just a small hole, the other had a very small finishing nail in it, not much bigger in diameter than a staple.

Pulled it out and then plugged both holes.

Gotta get some more plugs to keep in my tool kit, those were my last two.

Kevin

 

[Jack Klarich]

I must be getting close to having ridden 200k miles on Tri Glides.

Up until yesterday I had had only one time that I plugged a rear tire with a slow leak. It was back around 2015, on a road trip a few States over, and there was a wood screw imbedded in the tread of the right rear tire.

Yesterday (should have take some pics) when checking tire pressures, the right rear was low on the 2019 Tri Glide. Got some soapy water and found two pinhole leaks.

One was just a small hole, the other had a very small finishing nail in it, not much bigger in diameter than a staple.

Pulled it out and then plugged both holes.

Gotta get some more plugs to keep in my tool kit, those were my last two.

Kevin

I always carry either Napa plugs or Safety Seal plugs, never let me down

 

[rhino 2]

I must be getting close to having ridden 200k miles on Tri Glides.

Up until yesterday I had had only one time that I plugged a rear tire with a slow leak. It was back around 2015, on a road trip a few States over, and there was a wood screw imbedded in the tread of the right rear tire.

Yesterday (should have take some pics) when checking tire pressures, the right rear was low on the 2019 Tri Glide. Got some soapy water and found two pinhole leaks.

One was just a small hole, the other had a very small finishing nail in it, not much bigger in diameter than a staple.

Pulled it out and then plugged both holes.

Gotta get some more plugs to keep in my tool kit, those were my last two.

Kevin

The last time I had to plug a tire on a motorcycle was more than 20?years ago on the rear of my New VTX 1800 With only 6 hundred miles on it…I plugged it and then used sealer in it Rode it like that out without it losing any air till the tire itself wore out … Driving into Manhattan every day with my vehicles. I was an expert at plugging car tires on the road. Seemed like once a month I’ll get a flat ‘Plug and seal i never trust a plug alone..With my ATC’s I had to buy plugs by the dozen...

And one time I had a pice of shale punch a hole in the side wall of my Big Red’s rear tire…

Being I only rode it off road … caveman style I took the tire off the rim got a big bolt put a piece of rubber on both sides of the side walls and with large flat washers tightened it up and rode it for years like that……

 

[Notgrownup]

I carry a plug kit and a little compressor always.

 

[rhino 2]

I carry a plug kit and a little compressor always.

I carrie a little compression ‘ sealer and plug kit for years now I never had to use it. I also change the glue for the lubricant for the plug’s (over time it hardens ) when I remember .‘ But I guarantee the first time I leave it at home that’s when I’m gonna get a flat..

 

[DK Custom Products]

The last time I had to plug a tire on a motorcycle was more than 20?years ago on the rear of my New VTX 1800 With only 6 hundred miles on it…I plugged it and then used sealer in it Rode it like that out without it losing any air till the tire itself wore out … Driving into Manhattan every day with my vehicles. I was an expert at plugging car tires on the road. Seemed like once a month I’ll get a flat ‘Plug and seal i never trust a plug alone..With my ATC’s I had to buy plugs by the dozen...

And one time I had a pice of shale punch a hole in the side wall of my Big Red’s rear tire…

Being I only rode it off road … caveman style I took the tire off the rim got a big bolt put a piece of rubber on both sides of the side walls and with large flat washers tightened it up and rode it for years like that……

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Made me smile!

Kevin

 

[rhino 2]

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Made me smile!

Kevin

Yeah and you should have seen the looks and comments on the bolt sticking out of the side wall..But you have to understand livening in Brooklyn and extremely short on funds , and no garage we were street mechanics so we had to learn to do things caveman style, and we couldn’t leave a vehicle out in the street taken apart for too long… and so it’s something that’s still ingrained in me that even though now I can afford to get the right parts, I still like to Rube Goldberg stuff…