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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2010, 09:38:14 AM » |
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What no alien spacecraft???
Willow, quick question about your windshield/screen, how do you like the height and where did you get it?
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2010, 09:45:00 AM » |
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Willow, quick question about your windshield/screen, how do you like the height and where did you get it? I no longer have that bike, so I'll have to speak in the past tense.
I bought it at a salvage yard for $20 (Stock Interstate). My lovely wife and I cut it down using a jigsaw with a metal cutting blade at slow speed.
I started taller and worked my way down. I found that about eight inches above the garnish worked best for me. I never was able to completely rid it of the buffeting from air coming around the fairing.
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2010, 09:53:38 AM » |
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How about this landmark.  |
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« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2010, 10:23:29 AM » |
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There's only one Devils Tower but lots of covered bridges in Indiana. Consider this a generic entry.  Added the Lincoln Highway in indiana   |
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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2010, 10:38:05 AM » |
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What no alien spacecraft??? Ask, and ye' shall receive...  Jack - You definitely chose a good one!  |
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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2010, 12:00:09 PM » |
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More of a motorcycle specific prominent landmark, but I bet there are a LOT of pics of Valkyries in front of this one! (Or it's replacement, they changed the sign I believe?)  |
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« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2010, 12:07:44 PM » |
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Here's mine...  |
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« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2010, 12:40:26 PM » |
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At the time I lived close by. Kinda selected by default.(not default of mine, tho)   |
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« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2010, 12:53:17 PM » |
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Here are a few of mine...(note...not all are physical landmarks...but defining moments in my life...) Picking up my Valkyrie  My youngest's first ride  Fun ride up Hwy 7 in Arkansas  Capulin Volcano, NM  Memorial Radiator Cover for Previous Owner  Badlands  Mount Rushmore  One-Eyed Jack's in Sturgis  Devil's Tower  St. Louis Arch  Eisenhower Tunnel on way to InZane 9  Missouri State Capital  Joe |
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« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2010, 12:55:13 PM » |
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Many years ago... Pissed off the security guard just a tad   Black Dog |
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« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2010, 01:04:55 PM » |
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« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2010, 01:10:05 PM » |
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Bigger pic, of my avatar... Holy Hill, in Wisconsin.  Black Dog |
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« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2010, 03:41:38 PM » |
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« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2010, 04:25:13 PM » |
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Since Joe and timber had the same pix that I had, I'll go with... Freedom Rock in Iowa.  Main St Sturgis  Needles Highway-GiG on bike in this pic.  |
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« Reply #16 on: January 06, 2010, 04:44:04 PM » |
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« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2010, 08:31:40 PM » |
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Well, I guess I'll be the first on this thread with a Valk at the Southernmost marker pic.  Bonus pic of my Rocket 3 a year later.  |
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« Reply #18 on: January 06, 2010, 08:54:34 PM » |
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Don't have the luxury of time off to take long out of state Valk trips like some of the lucky folks on the board here but I think I've done pretty well in my home state!  Weird boat shaped house. Horseshoe Beach, FL.  The Suwanee River at the US19 crossing.  East Lake Weir P.O. right near Tom's {sealskiner} house.  The world famous headless dino on CR 476 near Brooksville.  In front of the giant Keys lobster on Islamorada.  Self explanatory.  Marineland, south of St. Augustine on A1A.  Wainting for the drawbridge to close on the Main St. bridge in Daytona.  Historic Micanopy FL.  The docks on Lake Monroe in Sanford.  Panama City Beach looking south.  The Crab Shack on Tybee Island GA.  Bok Tower {in the background} Lake Wales FL.  Hwy 44 Withlacoochee River crossing east of Inverness FL.  And of course, Main St Daytona during Biketoberfest last year. Thanks to sealskiner for the pic! |
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'98 Valkyrie Tourer burgundy & cream traded for Kim's F6B
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« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2010, 10:20:49 PM » |
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Another Key West............  Residential in Rapid City. When they had the big flood a few years back, this indentation was 250' wide and full of water. The one where the road goes through.  Golden Gate Park, San Francisco about 1952. That was my transportation bike and also my race bike on the circle track.  |
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« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2010, 10:57:52 PM » |
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On top, somewhere in the Flint Hills  Devil's Tower with them other Valkyrie guys  More Flint Hills, god knows where  Grumpy, hungover Harley guy at Devil's Tower  Downtown Frisco  |
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« Reply #21 on: January 07, 2010, 04:40:33 AM » |
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Willow, quick question about your windshield/screen, how do you like the height and where did you get it? I no longer have that bike, so I'll have to speak in the past tense.
I bought it at a salvage yard for $20 (Stock Interstate). My lovely wife and I cut it down using a jigsaw with a metal cutting blade at slow speed.
I started taller and worked my way down. I found that about eight inches above the garnish worked best for me. I never was able to completely rid it of the buffeting from air coming around the fairing.
I should tell you that I ride without a screen on my Standard.Shame nice looking bike....I am searching for a new windshield for my I/S and being 6'4" am worried about buffeting...Not so bad with the oem...should probably stay with that set up...but I love the look of the short shield... |
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« Reply #22 on: January 07, 2010, 05:43:43 AM » |
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« Reply #23 on: January 07, 2010, 05:47:43 AM » |
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« Reply #24 on: January 07, 2010, 06:40:13 AM » |
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Luckenbach with borrowed bike..  Atlantic Ocean Road  Valdresflya lies on the eastern side of Norway's highest mountain area, the Jotunheimen. The plateau consists of alpine plains, marshes and small lakes. The altitude is about 1300-1400 metres, hence all the high mountain species are present  Tucked deep into the mountains off the western coast of Norway lies Trollstigen Mountain Road, one of Norway's most magical attractions.  |
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« Reply #25 on: January 07, 2010, 06:46:20 AM » |
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« Reply #26 on: January 07, 2010, 06:56:20 AM » |
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Luckenbach with borrowed bike.. I rented a Road king for one weekend, and the Texans felt so sorry for me that they had to provide a motorcycle for me. The choice was very easy, and color was not an issue in this case. Harley or Valkyrie? I got asked if I was afraid of the traffic in Houston because I was shaking while riding the Road King... It was a good massage |
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« Reply #27 on: January 07, 2010, 07:11:14 AM » |
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San Jacinto monument:  Battleship Texas:  (Yes, that's Wizard two paint jobs ago, and me one Valkyrie ago.) |
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Luckenbach with borrowed bike..
Dag, I can't believe that in the whole state of Texas they couldn't find you a bumblebee. I rented a Road king for one weekend, and the Texans felt so sorry for me that they had to provide a motorcycle for me. The choice was very easy, and color was not an issue in this case. Harley or Valkyrie? I got asked if I was afraid of the traffic in Houston because I was shaking while riding the Road King... It was a good massage I thought you were shivering. It was pretty cold that day... (: |
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« Reply #29 on: January 07, 2010, 12:41:38 PM » |
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« Reply #31 on: January 07, 2010, 06:27:50 PM » |
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I got nothing special really. Raymond
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