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.

We rode up last month to Carlisle for the bike fest, but took the long way so we could ride longer. The day was beautiful and we enjoyed the sun and wind as we sped along. We didn’t get lost until we got there and then we couldn’t find the right turn off for the gate we needed. Finally we saw a bazillion bikers and followed them in.

It only cost 8 dollars to get in compared to the 15 at Gettysburg and they had a lot more stuff going on and rows and rows of vendors. We walked and walked, it was so humid and the sweat was pouring down my back. As you can see from the photo below my poor old bones were so tired I had to sit down and rest a spell.

I took some photo’s of some of the interesting bikes on display plus one of the 9/11 that was being raffled off and also I got some of the MIA/POW chopper, simply beautiful. The photo’s I took really don’t show how jam packed the place was with different types of bikers, it was fun to watch and see everything.

I tried to get a few shots of the kids doing the motorcross stunts, but you can’t see from the pictures so luckily someone took a video and put it on YouTube and if you watch you’ll see what we saw. I was amazed at how good the one guy was. We left soon after because the clouds started rolling in. We really enjoyed the Carlisle Bike Fest over the disappointing time we had at Gettysburg.