Vintage Big Dogs?

What year does a bigdog become vintage?

  • only the 1994 dogs can be considered vintage

    Votes: 20 11.4%

  • 1999

    Votes: 10 5.7%

  • 2000

    Votes: 12 6.8%

  • once a dog is 10yrs old it can be considered vintage

    Votes: 75 42.6%

  • once a dog is 15yrs old it can be considered vintage

    Votes: 59 33.5%
  • Total voters
    176
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cybervette

New Member
This forum doesn't have a lising for my bike. there was a vintage sport and a vintage classic, the sport is the only model listed when I go to my garage, and can't change it//
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52hammer

52hammer

Member
Well, I have owned some vintage bikes, 45 flathead, 49 knuck, 57 panhead and a 48 Indian among them. I would consider my 03 Bulldog a modern machine. It has features unavailable on even the latest Harleys, like the inverted front forks, right hand drive and super wide drive belt. I, myself, am a "vintage 'Dog". (At least that's what all the women I know tell me.)
 
liferider

liferider

Looking forward to retirement
I rebuilt a 1996, HD Ultra Classic 2 yrs ago. This is the 1st yr of the fuel injection. Anyway, almost all my parts came from J&P Cycles. Ballenced crank, ajustable pushrods, Arlen Ness electronics, Andrews 27 cam. BUT the left side of the radio output did not work and the local HD shop told me to sell that old P.O.S. and buy a NEW modern Ultra. Parts were hard to find on bikes that old and I would have to put an after market sterio in the bike, loosing my hand controls to work the sterio system. I went on line and guess what. Radio Music is the company who makes the radio's for HD. I contacted them and told them my story. They were not happy. All Harley dealers according to Radio Music Co, know the HD dealer (has to be shipped by HD dealer) sends the broken radio and check for $120.00 to Radio Music and they will exchange the radio. Now my (vintage Ultra Classic) has a healthy motor, good toon's and a feeling of rebirth! So to answer the question what is vintage? According to HD dealers, a 1996 Ultra Classic qualifies!
 
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smokeandroar

New Member
I have a 97 vintage classic, and since nobody seems to know anything about it, it must be vintage-! S&S cases, HD flywheels and Cylinders, Edelbrock heads, Delkron trans cases, Rubbermount frame, GMA 10" brakes, Belt final drive- Is this all stock?? Thanks!
 
GrapeDog

GrapeDog

Member
Holy crap, 10 years already? I bought my 03 on 5/6/04. Maybe my Chopper is "vintage" now... maybe not. I just call it, fun.
 
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mashley

New Member
I would like to know where or if there are any other Boxers out there with the 107" motor. They have a shorter primary and are shorter overall. mine really hauls butt! Just replaced starter relay but no help for the intermittent failure of starter button. We put a slam button on the starter which does the trick. My Boxer is a 2001 but you never see any for sale. Just wondering......Mashley
 
SixString

SixString

Member
1994-2004 are vintage. Simply because, if you go to BDM Performance, their parts lists only go back to 05. This sucks for those of us who have older bikes. But, as I'm learning, true custom owners shouldn't expect 'bolt-on' solutions anyway. Looks like we order something close, and weld, grind, cut and drill our way through. The upside? We have bikes no one else has!
 
wrench

wrench

Member
mashley said:
I would like to know where or if there are any other Boxers out there with the 107" motor. They have a shorter primary and are shorter overall. mine really hauls butt! Just replaced starter relay but no help for the intermittent failure of starter button. We put a slam button on the starter which does the trick. My Boxer is a 2001 but you never see any for sale. Just wondering......Mashley
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its not the relay that causes the intermittent failure. its the ehc. electric harness control. just wire the relay in by bypassing the harness control so the starting system is independent from the ehc.
wire the relay outside the ehc. so it does not plug into the ehc at all.
locate the black/ red striped wire coming off the handle bar control starter button where it comes out of the harness from the right side of the handle bars into the ehc. it will be right at the top of the ehc .cut it so it no longer goes into the ehc. instead it goes to the 86 terminal on the relay from the start button.. run a ground wire for #85 terminal on the relay.. run a hot wire that comes on with the key switch to terminal 30 on the relay. number 87 at the top of the relay goes to the starter. it will be a thicker red wire that comes form the starter into the bottom of the ehc. cut it where it goes into the ehc and hook the piece that goes to the starter to the 87 terminal. now you have a start system independent of the ehc. on/off kill switch.. starter button and power on when the key is on will all work correctly.
on the relay
30 is the hot
85 is the ground
86 is power in from the button
87 is power out to starter
holding the relay so you are looking down at the terminal blades..
turn it so you are looking down at two blades horizontal at the top and 2 or 3 blades vertical across the bottom. the two horizontal blades at top - 87 is the top blade. 30 is the 2nd blade down from the top. the 2 or 3 vertical at the bottom - the far left is 86. the far right is 85. some relays have 2 some 3. if it has 3 ignore the middle one because it is not used. hopes this helps.
 
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KnotSo

KnotSo

Admin
Staff member
The largest segment of voters at 42% say "once a dog is 10yrs old it can be considered vintage" :eek:
 
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