Woody

Welcome to nut house and you showed up on a good looking bike 🤪

You are correct. heck I may ride again today after my chores are done of course

Okay for anyone interested I replaced the water pump today and from what I read it should take 3.5 to 4 hours if you have done it before and 5.5 to 6 hours if never done it before so that would be me. it took me 5 hours and it worked like a charm we took a 50 mile test ride and the trike never over heated and I use that term loosely after all it is a Harley. but I did notice when I backed it out of the shop the reverse was faster than before so I am convinced that the ground did need cleaning.

Happy Birthday

Just some experience this week when I first bought my Harley trike new in 2013 off the show room floor I noticed the sound of it cranking like it was dragging but never owning a Harley before and the shop didn't think there was anything wrong I was convinced that's the way they sound. After putting four batteries in since I bought it I woke up at two o'clock one mourning after working on it all night in my sleep and took the ground wire off, cleaned it and the lugs replacing them, the bike cranks better than it has since it was new. A few years ago while riding the blue ridge with some good friends my water pump went out so we carried it to the Harley shop there in Asheville, the folks there at the shop moved it to the front of the line and replaced my pump that had less than 10,000 miles on it with a new one and covered it under warranty. they explained to me that those pumps were a piece of crap and Harley had come up with a new one that was much better so I shouldn't have anymore trouble. WRONG my pump went out yesterday with just over 14000 miles total on the bike and since there is no warranty on it I decided to do the work myself. come to find out they did put a new pump on it but it was the same style the one that had failed before and I had to purchase a new style pump with kit because all the hoes and mounts changed with the new pumps. The service dude says if they do it the cost would be 800 dollars and I'm thinking it should have been done the first time. Okay I hope this helps someone else and I'll get off the box now.

ALL GAVE SOME AND SOME GAVE ALL and I am thankful to ALL my brothers and sisters

The reason I was asking is some oil's do not play well with these bikes. I think I used Rotella T6 in my 2nd gen. it was just a thought

I am curious you said you changed oil and filter, what type oil did you put in the bike? OH and by the way if it can be fixed the guys on this forum can do it.

In our thoughts and prayers. Hope for a full recovery.

I'm the one that needs the medication 🤪

I just did that to my tractors the other day, once you get started it takes all day but the father and son time is the best part.

we are going to ride Saturday to see if Trina's back is getting better. she has rode one time since her surgery and we had to be very careful of road choice. she is doing better and wants to see how it feels now so a short ride to get her ready for Vogel.

Steve I hope you and Ronnie can make it this year.

I just unpacked mine we went to our family reunion in Florida and stayed a week, gained 5 pounds and I got to ride some had to leave Trina at my Dad's they said she didn't need to ride. 😁

I'll agree with that, I have been trying to get some pictures for several days now so he finally rode it over and let me take the pictures.

Okay I finally got some pictures of the father-in-laws 2009

Come on Rick be glad to see ya. nice ride can't wait to check it out.

we had tornados go all around us the closes one was about five miles away. but thank goodness no damaged and no one injured. we had our neighbors over in case we had to get in the storm shelter but it did get close enough.

To bad your not closer to Alabama, my father-in-law has the same bike and will be for sale shortly, but as far as the venture it is a great bike and was ahead of it's time.

Nice looking bike and welcome to the site. My father-in-law has an 2009 and it rides great

Thanks for the reply, we may ride the 09 today

Maybe Trina's last ride before Vogel, she goes in the 10th to have back surgery so today we will take a ride and get some wind therapy. I hope everyone is still planning on being at Vogel this year.

Father-in-law getting ready to put his 2009 up for sale. it is in great shape maybe around 20K miles, but he is not sure what to ask for it. he moved to a trike and don't want to keep both. I suggested around 6,000 but not sure if that's high or low. What do the experts here think?

I have seen someone use door trim from the auto parts store on the lowers, that might be an option.

That just goes to show we know how to handle snow, mix a little dirt with it so we have enough for a snowman.