I've been getting a lot of pm's on my bike so will tell everyone what is going on with it.
I bought my 05 Chopper in Oct of 04. It's #29 or one of the very first 05's to come off the assembly line. I traded my 03 Mastiff for it after I put over 24,000 miles on it in 16 months. The 05 was absolutely fantastic with the new RSD, so much better to me than the LSD.
I was putting 100 miles a day on it commuting back and forth to work while stationed in San Diego. Lane sharing all the way. I would arrive to work soaked in sweat from splitting lanes keeping an eye on the traffic trying to avoid someone from switching lanes in front of me. I survived three years of this!
Anyway, coming home from Sturgis this year I detoured to go help Hoat out who had broke down in Powell, WY after crossing some RR tracks on a bridge crossing on the Big Horn River (near where Custer got his ass shot off!). His bike shorted out and killed all the electronics on this crossing! The BD guys in Sturgis gave me a new EHC and VR for him. He warned me about this crossing but I didn't catch it in time and with a full load on the bike and Glenda on the back we hit the RR tracks so hard I thought the rear end broke off. I swear the RR tracks were 6" deep. We had to pull over and check to see if I lost anything. Struts still looked good so we went on our way.
As I always do before and after a trip I strip the bike down. Well I noticed that I had a fracture on the frame plate that your battery and oil bag is attached to. Not a structual part of the frame but still a problem. So I shoot off some pics to BDM asking them if I should just take it down to Midas Muffler and have them weld it back up. Next thing you know they are calling me and telling me they want to look at it. So last week a guy showed up here from Arizona and picked up my bike. He was contracted to haul it back to Arizona where it would be transfered to the Big Dog truck.
As of today I don't know if it's made it back to the factory yet or not. They told me when it arrives they will evaluate it and see if they have to strip it down to weld it up. This means I may get a new powder coated frame. Good timing as the races and bearing in the neck really need changing. The swing arm bearing are probably in need of changing also. The bike has over 56,000 miles on it now.
The driver was funny and said he knew it was a high mileage bike and that BDM would be putting it in their museum!!
I've concluded that the swingarm hit the rubber dampeners so hard it cracked this plate.
Just a small load!!
I bought my 05 Chopper in Oct of 04. It's #29 or one of the very first 05's to come off the assembly line. I traded my 03 Mastiff for it after I put over 24,000 miles on it in 16 months. The 05 was absolutely fantastic with the new RSD, so much better to me than the LSD.
I was putting 100 miles a day on it commuting back and forth to work while stationed in San Diego. Lane sharing all the way. I would arrive to work soaked in sweat from splitting lanes keeping an eye on the traffic trying to avoid someone from switching lanes in front of me. I survived three years of this!
Anyway, coming home from Sturgis this year I detoured to go help Hoat out who had broke down in Powell, WY after crossing some RR tracks on a bridge crossing on the Big Horn River (near where Custer got his ass shot off!). His bike shorted out and killed all the electronics on this crossing! The BD guys in Sturgis gave me a new EHC and VR for him. He warned me about this crossing but I didn't catch it in time and with a full load on the bike and Glenda on the back we hit the RR tracks so hard I thought the rear end broke off. I swear the RR tracks were 6" deep. We had to pull over and check to see if I lost anything. Struts still looked good so we went on our way.
As I always do before and after a trip I strip the bike down. Well I noticed that I had a fracture on the frame plate that your battery and oil bag is attached to. Not a structual part of the frame but still a problem. So I shoot off some pics to BDM asking them if I should just take it down to Midas Muffler and have them weld it back up. Next thing you know they are calling me and telling me they want to look at it. So last week a guy showed up here from Arizona and picked up my bike. He was contracted to haul it back to Arizona where it would be transfered to the Big Dog truck.
As of today I don't know if it's made it back to the factory yet or not. They told me when it arrives they will evaluate it and see if they have to strip it down to weld it up. This means I may get a new powder coated frame. Good timing as the races and bearing in the neck really need changing. The swing arm bearing are probably in need of changing also. The bike has over 56,000 miles on it now.
The driver was funny and said he knew it was a high mileage bike and that BDM would be putting it in their museum!!
I've concluded that the swingarm hit the rubber dampeners so hard it cracked this plate.
Just a small load!!
