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I put this photo first, because it is a pretty special story. The lady with me, Charolette Heinreich, was my best friend for almost 20 years. She passed away suddenly in November of 1996. I miss her terribly already. Anyway, this photo was in 1989 when I rode to Las Vegas, Nevada, to see her for spring break. If you look close, you can see the AGGIE sticker on the windshield. UNLV and NMSU, my school, were locked in a pretty hot contest for the Pac 10 contest that year. I got flipped a million fingers from folks who saw that sticker while riding in Vegas! Charolette and I rode all over the area around Vegas, into California and Arizona.

This photo is in Christchurch, New Zealand. This was the Harley shop until early 1993, when they moved a few blocks to a nice "new, trendy" building. HD seems to be getting into that mode lately... There are quite a few clubs in New Zealand, and lots of motorcycles. HD and crotch rockets seem to be the mode of choice, about evenly distributed. Notice the vehicle, parked on the LEFT???

This was my very first Harley. WHY DO WE SEEM TO START ON SPORTSTERS??? 1960 XLCH. At least we wake up and go on to other bikes... I bought this in 1977, when women did not ride much, much less ride Harleys. I called the guy up in California, a brother of a guy I worked with. He thought I was BSing, and did not take the call seriously. When I showed up on his doorstep, he was a little amazed to say the least. It had no carb, no oil cap, and no sparkplug wires. We jury rigged enough to get it running and I bought it for $1000 and some free advice. It had a Lake injector, what a disaster. Magneto start, argh... I rode almost all the way home to northern Washington in the end of November, before the snow got too deep and I called a friend to come get me in his truck. I painted it purple (of course), even tried blue for a while. I rode this a lot of miles, had it rebuilt by an older gentleman who was a railroad machinist... this guy made 45 crank bearings by HAND folks. Lola, the bike, screamed with a lot more power than I could ever need; she had 1000 heads on 900 system, hand made cut-down sodium filled Cadilac valves the size of trash cans (thanks Jay Leno) and was way too hot for me.
I like tanks, not missiles!

This is an early photo of the Panhead right after I got it back from the motor being built. The pinstriping had not been done, and I had not gotten rid of the ape hangers. Still, not bad looking even then, eh?

Just so you know it really does get ridden...
This photo was taken by Joe Masters at about 60mph outside of Melrose NM, while breaking in his new 93 FLHTC.

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME FOLKS!!!
This photo is the day I had to take all the materials for an 8' x 10' greenhouse to a friends house. I did not have the Chevy running yet, so I had to take the bike. I tied all the lumber on the crash bars, far enough back so I could turn the front wheel. I tied all the covering on the luggage rack, and rode the 15 miles into town where we put up a really nice greenhouse to grow flowers in.
Amazing what you can do with a Harley and some ingenuity.
I once took a whole Thanksgiving dinner into town on the same rack. Turkey, dressing, 2 pies, greenbean casserole, and gravy. I put it all into plastic bags, put them into boxes and then packed all the boxes in a big box and tied it on. Down the road again...

This great looking purple bike belongs to a great guy on the Harley Digest who sent me a shirt just for helping him aquire a book on his carbuerator. Good folks, good list. Chris's ride is a 1976 (good year, eh??) FLH "Purple Haze". As he said: "Keep on Kruzin!"

I hope these photos give you a little insight into the crazy world I have. Riding and building Harleys are a big part of my life.

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