The guy I bought it from was cool, and he has a little motorcycle museum, I will make a separate post about that.
But whoever the owner before was... there is quite a mystery going on.
2300 miles, this bike should be just like new, right?
So why does it have this big crease in the front fender? It looks like it was bent over double, but the fender stays are perfect.
Once we got it home, I told Randy that
I wanted to spray all the bolts with PB Blaster and let it sit for a while before even trying to remove any fasteners. But... we both started trying to figure out why things were already loose or missing, and the next thing you know:
Now, in our defense, it turned out that the damned cylinder head was not even bolted on, the nuts were all finger tight. There is just a lot of stuff that doesn't make sense, and we couldn't help ourselves.
The front brake connector bar is broken, how can that happen?
Looks like a huge undertaking! What happened to this beast? I am working on a 175 Dual Twin that had a cracked top yoke! How does that happen?
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