Harley dude talking smack!

[joey fletcher]

Well I will put in my 2 cents worth.

I have a picture of the 2 fastest harleys I have ever rode..One is my son's SE V-Rod and yes it is fast...It just has been super tuned...PC5 and Pipes....Oh and geared downed.

The other belonged to my ex-brother in law...Gary

Gary paid $63,000 for this bike....It was called a 145 Tribute Bike......100 yrs of Harley Davison and 45 yrs. of SS motors

It was 145 ci SS motor....It was like standing next to a funny car when he cranked it up..It absloutely shook your insides when he hit the throttle....I have never heard anything like it ...Awesome...LOUD

But it was a complete contrapsion....I rode it twice...and hated it . The viberation in the handle bars was terrible....after 5 min. of normal riding my fingers were numb and lord help you if you had a ring on. It always pulled to the left.....always hard counter steer.
It was 10x harder to make a right turn off the interstate.

Now for the power..It was fast....Pulled like a freight train, but hard to hold on to and counter steer was very hard under full power....it felt like the primary drive belt was bending the bike in the middle. Plus there was stuff on both sides of the engine....so when you slid foward and tried to grip the motorcycle with your legs the junk on the side would hurt your legs....I had bruses on my legs from gripping so hard when going to full power thru the gears..

Faster than my Rocket......Maybe...only because it was hard to control.
The SS motor had awesome power...Maybe to much power for that frame.

Gary finally sold that M/C for less than half price....and bought a Street Glide...spent $6,000 + on the engine heads, cams , lower gear and exhaust and tunning.

2 weeks ago after all his talk about cutting my head off...only if I gave him 5 bike lenths on a rolling start....Well I gave him 10 to 15 bike lenths and blew by him just as I hit 3rd gear....Not even fun..

I am sure if someone here spent $6,000+ on a Rocket Roadster I am sure it could hang with that Harley

My son's bike is the orange SE V-Rod...I am on the BMW LT...wife was with me and Gary's 145 Tribute.......other bike is other ex- brother in law's

 

[CanberraR3]

What's wrong with someone thinking his bike is faster or bigger or whatever? If it is, it is. If it isn't, it isn't. No skin off my nose either way. I guess I don't get it. My Rocket's got nothing to prove.

 

[warp9.9]

Faster is only good if you have the balls enough to use it. Otherwise you might as well save your money.

 

[scowherd]

What's wrong with someone thinking his bike is faster or bigger or whatever? If it is, it is. If it isn't, it isn't. No skin off my nose either way. I guess I don't get it. My Rocket's got nothing to prove.

My opinion is if you spend thousands of dollars making a Rocket or any bike for that matter go faster.. the road you are riding are to straight .... head for the mountains and ride you will never max out your stock bike and save thousands on performance mods that you can put in the gas tank. Its not about how fast you bike will go it how fast you are willing to ride it ....

 

[TriumPhil]

Let's see the Harley clones (clowns?) put something up against this monster... Timeline Photos | Facebook

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No guts, no glory!

 

[mully95]

My opinion is if you spend thousands of dollars making a Rocket or any bike for that matter go faster.. the road you are riding are to straight .... head for the mountains and ride you will never max out your stock bike and save thousands on performance mods that you can put in the gas tank. Its not about how fast you bike will go it how fast you are willing to ride it ....

I just like to race in a 1/8 or 1/4 mile and that be it. If one wants to race in the mountains, curvy has hell roads or not a good long straight away you can count me out. See the problem with racing on curvy roads especially the mountains is you don't have enough time to correct yourself BEFORE you hit something. Tree, off a cliff, another biker, car, mac truck, etc... Now these cats that indulge in this type of activity is truly living on the edge. They believe they're a sport bike racer and clearly they're not. A sport bike racer has enough since to know that they will be much better off to really open it up to the limit on a race track. There isn't anything to smack into that is hard as a rock just maybe hay bales, safer barrier etc... if they can't get themselves corrected. If you think about it it's kind of like racing like the guys do at Isle of Man.... and look how many have died there.

Now don't get me wrong.... I'm no angel and have gave it my all on a 06 Kawasaki ZX-10R and still got defeated by some guy on a dirt bike that had street tires on it. I was later informed that this guy lives in the general vincity and knows the section of road like the back of his hand. He even sets bobbie traps for riders. I came upon one curve and there was a frickn big ass rock in the road. I noticed when he arrived in this curve he didn't even flinch because of the rock. This after he past me in a sharp curve. He knew the rock was there. Then I noticed gravel that was mysteriously thrown in the sections where we place our tires not in the center of the lane. After finding out this information I wanted to go back and look for this guy and shoot his fricking tires out because he basically was endangering my life. Even though I was the one twisting my own throttle. lol


Anyways every time I take a ride through Deals Gap I am taking a chance of getting hit head on by another biker. I'll go ahead and admit this ..... I was riding all day in the mountains taking the curves pretty hard. I was doing good until this one curve .... a curve that just had a different characteristic than all the others... snuck up on me. Before I knew it I was jamming down on the front brakes hitting the rear brakes as well and still went far right off the edge of the road. LUCKILY there was a pull off area in that curve and I had enough time to get it stopped. All I could see was the edge of the cliff that I could have went over. If I had went over that edge I
doubt seriously anyone would known I was down there because I was riding by myself.

 

[joey fletcher]

Going Fast

For those that truely love going fast is something you are born with..I have know 100's of guys that said they had a limit as to how fast they would run their bike or cage. Even if they had something that was much faster than their max speed...100 mph .....130 mph 160 mph....what ever

I agree with Mr Warp on this....it is a waste of money....just to say you have it..

I say this with all truth....I have never been on a motorcycle that was to fast.

I am sure Mr Warp thought I was joking when he said that he might not be able to do the mile this year, due to his sholder issues. I was willing to run his bike at the mile for him.

There is no doubt in my mind that I would have gotten every MPH out of his bike as my fat belly would have allowed his bike to run.

Again...I think it is something you are born with.......The need for speed

 

[Rhode Warrior]

Talk about talking smack. A guy on the 750 turbo forum just said that he beat a Corvette ZR1 with his bone stock 2003 Mustang Mach 1. I couldn't let that one go. Give me a break.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Talk about talking smack. A guy on the 750 turbo forum just said that he beat a Corvette ZR1 with his bone stock 2003 Mustang Mach 1. I couldn't let that one go. Give me a break.

Musta had the valet key on in the vet.

 

[1olbull]

Going Fast

For those that truely love going fast is something you are born with..I have know 100's of guys that said they had a limit as to how fast they would run their bike or cage. Even if they had something that was much faster than their max speed...100 mph .....130 mph 160 mph....what ever

I agree with Mr Warp on this....it is a waste of money....just to say you have it..

I say this with all truth....I have never been on a motorcycle that was to fast.

I am sure Mr Warp thought I was joking when he said that he might not be able to do the mile this year, due to his sholder issues. I was willing to run his bike at the mile for him.

There is no doubt in my mind that I would have gotten every MPH out of his bike as my fat belly would have allowed his bike to run.

Again...I think it is something you are born with.......The need for speed

WOW joey fletcher!
I was stoked reading your post.
Went to your photos to see if your belly was fatter than mine.
A CAR TIRE??????????