anybody fancy a harly £450

[octo0072000]

it's a bit wooden though

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HARLEY-DA...9672804?pt=UK_Motorcycles&hash=item19bb7c5fe4

 

[ronan]

Nah , its too expensive for firewood and takes up the space that could be better occupied by a bike thats works ........most of the time.

 

[pedrobedro]

Nah , its too expensive for firewood and takes up the space that could be better occupied by a bike thats works ........most of the time.

I'll have you know I heard from a reputable source that 95% of all Harleys ever made are still on the road.


The other 5% made it home

P.S. Only kidding, delivering one to Doncaster on Monday.

 

[chunkolini]

I wouldn't fancy that .
Barking mad.

 

[the snooper]

its a tree huggers bike

 

[Shox Dr]

I'll have you know I heard from a reputable source that 95% of all Harleys ever made are still on the road.


The other 5% made it home

P.S. Only kidding, delivering one to Doncaster on Monday.

OK I'll bite

I've owned a Harley for 8yrs and it's been the most reliable bike I and any one else I know has owned. It's not been ridden this yr but fired up first time yesterday on first touch of the button.

I paid 11.5k for it in 2004 and it's still worth over 9.5k now. You tell me a rice burner that holds it value that well after 34k miles, and 7yrs old.

 

[brightspark]

they may be ok but if the engine was put in to a helecopter would u fly in it

 

[Engineer1964]

This one here actually has an engine in

I think its a Honda - The Power of Dreams

 

[the snooper]

flintstones meet the flintstones

 

[octo0072000]

flying harley

they may be ok but if the engine was put in to a helecopter would u fly in it

well this one flys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=vIs45EByKNE

 

[Shox Dr]

^^ That told you BS

A well tuned Harley can easily produce 90ft/lbs @ 1800RPM increasing to over 110ft/lbs at peek RPM of 6200 and 120BHP

Show me a rice burner that can do that.

 

[the snooper]

looked more like an aeroplane to me

 

[octo0072000]

looked more like an aeroplane to me

can't find the heli one there is a microlight on you tube that's harley powered

 

[rocketron]

Last proper bike I owned was a Dresda Triton, quite troublesome and it got sold in '78 cos I couldn't be arsed anymore. Never had any inclination with bikes until at NEC, a AA patrol Harley was on display, having covered 86k with only 1 rear bulb that failed! I believe it was sold to the regular patrolman the following year. So I thought perhaps H-D have got summat right at last. In Florida some years ago, while wife and kids did the Mickey Mouse thing, went to the local H-D shop to see what was so special about them. Got invited for a ride-out and accepted though somewhat sceptical. Rode some new Twin- cam thingy with solid wheels. OK, it's still a 2cylinder tractor, but after some 50miles on the I 4, sunny day, warm breeze, cold drinks, dump it in top and let the torque do its bit and not expecting anything dramatic, I realised what a nice place to be. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wasn't going to anywhere particular, but the Harley made the cruise there the point of it all.
"It's not the destination, but the journey!": a different form of enjoyment to piloting "crutch rockets". Welsh weather prevents my buying a Harley.

 

[brightspark]

well this one flys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=vIs45EByKNE

i had a microlite and had a few engine failures not 2 bad as u have a wing to glide down with a helicopters a diffrent kettle of fish. not 2 bad if u have the height though just disengage the rotor and go on autorotation to safely land i was in my mates the other month and he practiced it

 

[Fazed]

^^ That told you BS

A well tuned Harley can easily produce 90ft/lbs @ 1800RPM increasing to over 110ft/lbs at peek RPM of 6200 and 120BHP

Show me a rice burner that can do that.

V-Max.
113ft/lb @ 6,600rpm, 174bhp @ 9,000rpm.
No need to 'tune' it either

 

[pedrobedro]

The new Morgan 3 wheeler is being made with a Harley engine as well, £30.000 and you can put a deposit on one now. We're delivering a 2011 Sportster with 300 miles on the clock on Monday. What model is yours, Shox? Friend of ours had a Fat Boy a while back. It had custom paint, chrome and wheels and everything and cost him £15,000 and sold for £10,000 3 years later. When he goes abroad he uses his Fazer 1000. I did say at the bottom only kidding, it's just a standard joke round at the bike shop where I make the tea Most standard "rice burners" with over 600cc make over 100bhp with no extra tuning, my 900 Hornet makes 120 and who needs torque on two wheels if you're not towing a baler

 

[Robotstar5]

You tell me a rice burner that holds it value that well after 34k miles, and 7yrs old.

Kawasaki Z1, Honda CB750K, Suzuki GT750

 

[Shox Dr]

My point was Harleys can produce lots of power, and they don't breakdown. When they did, so did Brits and Jap bikes for the time. And while they don't produce as much as a R1. They are two different types of machine with different uses.


As for a Vmax what power does it produce at 1800rpm. The beauty of a Harley is the almost maximum available torque at little over tickover. So you don't have to wring it's neck off.


As for kettles and the like they are valuable because they are rare (within the context) Where as Harleys are not, yet still hold their value So your examples don't count

 

[Fazed]

As for a Vmax what power does it produce at 1800rpm.

Who cares when there are 170 horses to play with! I wouldn't be towing a caravan with it