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Favorite Comment: Fixer Wolfen says, “That light you seen at the end of the tunnel is not the headlamp of an on coming train, it is the Ghostrider’s flashlight!”
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Woah! I SAW this cycle in a parking lot in Wichita KS just before Christmas. The thought went through my mind…”I should get a photo of that for There, I Fixed It”…
I see nothing wrong with this. Well, If you jerk your handle bar to much (if you catch my drift) that tape might flex and then the flashlight falls out and hits the guy behind you.
This would be something done by people I know. Just as bad as putting a car battery in the saddle bags to jump start the bike.
The battery in the saddlebags would be bad, exactly how?
That may be old school thinking that motorbikes once ran on less voltage.
It’s got such a wierd yellow beam of light coming out of it…
Heh. That was my first thought. They changed the headlamp on a bike for some freaking laser beam. Woot.
Keep that on the DL. She’s not exactly street legal.
Hummm I wonder, do the requirements specified the brightness on the headlamp? I thought it just said: to give a clear view ahead, and be seen from oncoming traffic. Not to mention it would wiggle back and forth like a train headlight giving a wider area of view. I think the point here is: they have seen the light and are saved!
Ummm I was just quoting Will Ferrell from Old School, but yea…that
That’s not a torchlight, it’s a siren to draw attention.
“BRA BRA BRAAAAAA BRAAAH!!”
See the radiator??? NOT A HARLEY!!!
That’s why it says “Hardly Davidson.”
Maybe you should look into the Hardly Davidson V-Rod… Water cooled.
Yeah, it’s not a Harley, it looks like a chineese knockoff by the head design…
Yes, but on every Harley that uses the Porsche-designed water cooled engine, they try very hard to hide the radiator.
yeah a harley would would shake the tape loose lol
That’s not a Harley. You can clearly see a big ugly radiator in the pic. While Harley does make a few bikes with radiators now, they try to disguise and/or prettify them.
That’s not a Harley. Harleys are air-cooled. That bike has a water cooling radiator on the front. It’s a jap-cruiser of some sort.
heheh… been there, done that. I was on a road trip and started to have electrical problems; The battery wouldn’t charge while running, so I had to kill all electrical drains to conserve energy. Finally called it a day at 9pm; pulled into a rest stop and had a friend drive out the remaining 60 miles to pick me up and take me home.
This is, as flashlights go, one that’s probably up to the job (not commenting on the use of plain packing tape instead of proper duct tape). I’ve seen one looking just like this, and it had 8 D-cells and a 55 Watt H1 halogen bulb (those are commonly used in auxiliary vehicle lighting, like driving lights and fog lights). So it’s roughly the same light output as a standard headlight, only with a different spread pattern. If you use decent batteries you might even get over an hour of run time, as it pulls about 5 amps.
I knew someone who had to do a night trip at a time when his clapped-out XT550 lacked any electrics except for the ignition. His solution was a bit like this, only the flashlight was one of those dime-a-dozen three D-cell ones, with a bulb that looks like a near-dead firefly on a good day. Given that he had a fatal crash several years later he must have survived that trip.
This is the kind of professional craftmanship I would expect form a union
member harley owner.
That’s a Win of a Kluge in my book – Headlight burns out, rig up flashlight and drive to Wally World to see if they have the light bulb.
If they don’t, stock up on Lantern Batteries (probably takes the 6V spring type) and Packing Tape to get you to the next Auto Parts Store that might have them.
Not that I’ve ever used a Red LED Flashlight as a makeshift taillight on a rental trailer, or anything… ;-P
Reminds me of my first motorcycle, a ’64 Triumph Bonneville; the magneto kept blowing out the headlamp, usually while passing a car at 85 mph or so.
Hope every one has a VERY RICE NEW YEAR.
And Jesse James said, “Let there be light!” And there was light. And Jesse James said, “Kick a$$!”
“Where my lasers at?!?”
That’s not a Hardly Ableson, it’s too advanced for that with liquid cooling.
it looks like a Vulcan , but you have to give him his ‘props’ . He’s going down the road on 2 wheels while you make jokes from the 4 you’re riding on . ” Ride to live . Live to ride . “
Four? Eleven, spread between five vehicles (or 13 and 6, but that last one needs a bit of fixing, and papers).
Whatever gets you through the night!
It’s not a Harley Davidson, it’s a HARDLY Davidson. Big difference.
that isnt a harley. the only harley with a radiator is a vrod, which that isnt.
That light you seen at the end of the tunnel is not the headlamp of an on coming train, it is the Ghostrider’s flashlight!
Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.
Hey, who photographed my ride?
If that Guy hadn’t had his leg in there people would have been yelling Photo Shop for the fake yellow beam JMO Regards PG
Most excellent! They even used one of those Fifties-style flashlights that use the giant lantern battery.
What happens when the batt. dies
It seems like the flashlight is spewing out yellow paint, and becomes solid instantly so you can walk on it.
That’s not a Harley, there’s no pool of engine oil underneath it.