This post is an answer for Patsy who is also having a problem mounting their passenger armrests on their Harley trike her comment was “Hi I just noticed that you were having problems putting arm rests on your trike. We too are in the same boat. We have a Harley Trike and need to get our arm rests on our bike. Could your friend Bill tell us how he did make them work?” As you can see from the photo below Bill did figure out a way to attach my passenger armrests.
The 2nd photo Bill removed the seat so I could take a picture of the steel bar which he got at Lowe’s. It’s the one that is unpainted and it’s a 12 inch long 1-1/2 inch by 1/4 piece of stock steel. He had to drill 4 holes. From each end they were 1-1/2 and 2-1/2 on center and they were 1/4 inch holes, he had to use the spacers and it’s connected where the tour pack should have been, but he had to move the tour pack back.
It should have been a piece of cake to mount them, but there was no room to attach them to the tour pack where they would normally have gone. If it had been a regular bike there would have been no problem what so ever. I’m really glad he figured out how to make them work because I really love them and I was afraid he’d have to send them back. I hope the information helps and if you have any more questions Patsy please don’t hesitate to ask.
I am updating to add that we lowered the air pressure in the back tires to 25 they had them at 40 and we have one of those small somewhat expensive pumps we got at our Harley shop for our shocks Bill pumped them up to 35 since we are 2 up and it really feels different when you go over bumps it seems to flow easier and not hit so hard. Those are things that you can play with and adjust till you find what feels best for you and everyone has a different opinion.
I’m certainly happy with the trike and feel so much safer in traffic around all those drivers that besides finding me invisible that don’t seem to see motorcycles either this thing at least stands out to them. We don’t have reverse on ours and so far we’ve never needed it, it rolls so easy, but we always try to take care where we park and we like the special places they let us park at the motorcycle events, we’re getting spoiled. Have a great weekend.
The Harley plant in York, PA may be history soon according to our paper, officials are looking at 4 possible new areas in different states they may possibly be moving to. That means over 2,000 more workers will be in the unemployment line. I don’t think I want to debate unions, but in this case I think the unions around here are greedy and not really looking out for it’s members. Yes, workers should have rights and feel like they have a leg to stand on when they go up against management, but you can’t feed your family if you push too hard and run these companies away.
The union did it to Caterpillar in York back in 1996 and now we have the same thing happening to the York Harley plant.That plant is one of the most coveted places to work around here and these union officials and members as far as I’m concerned are fricking idiots. Do I have friends that work there? Yes I do! Do I think they are greedy and idiots? Yes I do! Will I tell them that to their face? Only if they ask me what I think about the situation! Will York be a ghost town soon? Many businesses have already shut down and a lot of events that helped our economy no longer take place.
Ed Rendell is even getting rid of PA government employees, he has no fricking budget and can’t even pay them, some have been working without pay for quite a while. Who knows maybe the whole PA state will fold under this Governor. Maybe along with trying to sale the turnpike he’ll negotiate to sell the whole state. That was an attempt at humor by the way. Our country has so much compared to others and we take way too much for granted, especially the Harley union workers right now as far as I’m concerned.
I hope they still have York Bike Week this year, but if they move it may all stop, even bike night in downtown York. This event in September draws bikers from all over and really gives our local economy a boost, the Harley Plant is the big sponsor of this event. We have noticed over the past couple years that it seems to be dwindling, even the parade through town seems to be getting shorter. There was talk about fining people with loud pipes a couple years ago, but I haven’t heard anything lately about that plan.
We have always enjoyed York Bike Night in past years, but it’s no longer the same. Well, I hope everyone has a great weekend, take care and be safe.
Didn’t get much done online or at home yesterday. We took a ride up to Willow Street Harley Davidson toward Lancaster. They were having open house and a sale in the warehouse 50% off. Since the sale consisted of old parts and items that they couldn’t get rid of I’m sure they are still sitting there today. Although some people took advantage of the 15% off in the main building, we didn’t find anything we needed.
They had demo rides and a very loud rock band which wouldn’t have been bad if they could sing. I guess they think loud is better and maybe if we had been 5 miles away they would have sounded better. They had free food and drinks so since it was customer appreciation and we have bought from them before I didn’t feel guilty for eating and not buying anything. It wasn’t fancy eating fare just hotdogs and BBQ pork sandwiches.
I didn’t have my camera with me so I wasn’t able to take pictures of something which totally appalled me. As we sat out at the picnic tables with different types of bikers milling around in the sweltering heat I noticed several different groups hanging out and each group was flying their colors. These were grown men and apparently the in thing is cut off sleeved vest jackets that had their group name or insignia on the back, Sons Of Satan, Tribe, and others.
Even though I was amazed that grown men and women still belong to this type of thing I guess it’s no different than any other type of groups. That’s not what appalled me though, the appalling part for me were their women. Each group of course had their own color so the others would know not to mess with them and the women wore these vest type jackets also, but on the back there was a large patch and here’s the kicker these patches all had “Property Of” and then their mans name, like BadDog, SnakeVenom and other weird names.
What mature woman in her right mind would want to be viewed as a piece of meat that was the property of some weirdo? That was mean because I don’t know if these people are weird or not, at any rate we decided we had enough fun and finished up our day riding through the Buck where the Amish live, but since it was Saturday I didn’t see any buggies just some working in the fields and you know they’re Amish because they have no electricity or cars or powered machinery.
That’s it for today, I found that silly duck in my yard this morning and it took me a while to shoo it away, sure was glad Sadie wasn’t out. I hate feeling responsible for someones pet and sooner or later that duck is gonna screw up and fly over and Sadie will have lunch. I don’t know if they have duck leashes or not, but she told me she found a website that sells duck apparel, okay other than Mother Goose who would dress up their fowl?
